{"id":2639,"date":"2019-08-03T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rathbarrystud.com\/cms\/?p=2639"},"modified":"2019-08-03T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T22:41:10","slug":"galway-festival-success-for-shirocco-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/?p=2639","title":{"rendered":"GALWAY FESTIVAL SUCCESS FOR SHIROCCO MARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">GALWAY FESTIVAL SUCCESS FOR SHIROCCO MARE<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathbarrystud.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MAJESTIC-MAID.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2640 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rathbarrystud.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MAJESTIC-MAID-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a>The progressive <strong>MAJESTIC MAID (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rathbarrystud.com\/cms\/stallions\/shirocco\/shirocco\/\">Shirocco<\/a>)<\/strong> gained a well-deserved victory when taking the two mile mares\u2019 bumper at the Galway Festival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Michael Kennedy-trained four-year-old was last seen finishing a close second to Flying Risk (Shirocco) in a similar contest at Limerick under M O\u2019Sullivan, who took the ride once again at Ballybrit. Chasing the leaders in the early stages, the bay improved into second at halfway and led soon after. Headed three furlongs from home, she battled back to lead inside the final furlong and stayed on well to win by a length and a quarter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Trainer Michael Kennedy was full of praise for Conor Murphy homebred winner, commenting after the race, \u201c<\/span><span class=\"s1\">She&#8217;s very tough and genuine, a handy enough filly who is good and strong. She has a bright future I think.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GALWAY FESTIVAL SUCCESS FOR SHIROCCO MARE The progressive MAJESTIC MAID (Shirocco) gained a well-deserved victory when taking the two mile mares\u2019 bumper at the Galway Festival. The Michael Kennedy-trained four-year-old was last seen finishing a close second to Flying Risk (Shirocco) in a similar contest at Limerick under M O\u2019Sullivan, who took the ride once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rathbarrystud.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}