{"id":5020,"date":"2014-07-06T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2014-11-30T20:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T10:23:22","slug":"coupe-express-keeps-on-motoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=5020","title":{"rendered":"Coupe Express Keeps on Motoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2014-07-05_race4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5021\" alt=\"2014-07-05_race4\" src=\"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2014-07-05_race4-150x139.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2014-07-05_race4-150x139.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2014-07-05_race4-300x278.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/wp-content\/upLoads\/2014-07-05_race4.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Ricky Maund explained his decision to send Coupe Express to Morphettville yesterday,\u00a0 \u201cShe is racing in her career best form and deserves a chance at city grade\u201d. \u00a0It proved to be a winning decision. \u201cEven though she has won two of her recent starts from the front I let Todd know that she didn\u2019t have to be ridden forward\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Coupe Express jumped well in the 0-82 mares race over 1,200 metres, but Todd Pannell didn\u2019t push her in the early stages, and that decision allowed her to be strong in the closing stages. Finishing fast she bobbed her head when it mattered to edge out Kill Bill who ran a game second. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theracessa.com.au\/show_video.php?track=30072&amp;date=2014-07-05&amp;race=4&amp;trial=no\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Race Replay R4 Morphettville 05 July 14<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The win was Lauriston Throughbred Farm\u2019s Coupe Express\u2019 sixth \u2013 her third victory from her last five starts and took her career earnings to more than $90,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Coupe Express was not the only horse in the orange and green to salute yesterday. Equissential resumed after a lengthy break at Toowoomba in a benchmark 75 race over 1,200 metres. With apprentice Emma Ljung up the rising 7yo bullocked his way into clear running room before powering to the line to win by over a length.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">It was the eighth win for the Neville Saunders trained gelding and raised his prize money beyond $330,000. \u201cHe\u2019s returned in great shape and I\u2019m really looking forward to this preparation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Maund explained his decision to send Coupe Express to Morphettville yesterday,\u00a0 \u201cShe is racing in her career best form and deserves a chance at city grade\u201d. \u00a0It proved to be a winning decision. \u201cEven though she has won two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=5020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breeding","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5212,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}