{"id":70713,"date":"2025-08-16T07:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:22:13","slug":"wayne-bailey-im-hoping-skimmer-can-sizzle-at-sunny-newbury-and-make-this-weekend-a-better-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/70713\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Bailey: I\u2019m hoping Skimmer can sizzle at sunny Newbury and make this weekend a better one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spy Chief and Robert Havlin look primed for success in the Group Two Hungerford Stakes at Newbury. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/dfd7e2ab-ec4c-4afb-99f5-f9c85c45e69b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Spy Chief and Robert Havlin look primed for success in the Group Two Hungerford Stakes at Newbury. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I\u2019ve heard it said that gambling is the great leveller: one day you\u2019re dining with kings, the next you\u2019re sleeping with the dogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In last Saturday\u2019s column, I mentioned clocking a profit of over 44 points at Betfair SP (BSP) during the Galway Festival. But in this game, the rug is never far from being pulled \u2013 I had 10 bets across British and Irish racing last weekend and not a single winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spy Chief and Robert Havlin look primed for success in the Group Two Hungerford Stakes at Newbury. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55,21896],"class_list":["post-70713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wayne-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}