{"id":5872,"date":"2015-04-14T19:49:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T09:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2015-05-11T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T05:32:17","slug":"apollos-choice-salutes-in-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/?p=5872","title":{"rendered":"Apollo’s Choice Salutes in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Hall’s Apollo’s Choice with Douglas Whyte on – Photo: Kenneth Chan, South China Morning Post 12 Apr 15<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Apollo\u2019s Choice (4g. Choisir – Apolina by Rubiton) won the richest race on the card at Sha Tin last Sunday \u2013 A HK$1,500,000 mile race on the turf track for Australian trainer David Hall. It was Douglas Whyte\u2019s fourth win for the day. From the inside gate Whyte positioned Apollo\u2019s Choice in the box seat. 350metres from home Whyte took a run inside the front runner Sichaun Exec. Despite being tightened for room Apollo\u2019s Choice pushed through and was strong to the line holding out race favourite Celestial Smile by a length.<\/span><\/p>\n

Race Replay R11 Sha Tin 12 Apr 15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The win was Apollo\u2019s Choice\u2019s third\u00a0 from just eight career starts and his first in Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apollo\u2019s Choice was purchased at Inglis\u2019 Premier Sale in 2013 by Shea Eden. He won his first two starts before a luckless fourth at listed level at Flemington. He backed up in the following week into the Group 2 Sandown Guineas where he finished third.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the strength of those performances Apollo\u2019s Choice was sold to Hong Kong where he joined David Hall\u2019s stable. He sustained a minor ligament injury after his first start at his new home before being rested and gelded. He displayed some of his ability in his next two starts, hitting the front in his race on the 8th of March before fading. He then won a trial before his victory yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Apollo\u2019s Choice was bred at Lauriston Thoroughbred Farm and is the first foal to race from Rubiton mare Apolina.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apollo\u2019s Choice (4g. Choisir – Apolina by Rubiton) won the richest race on the card at Sha Tin last Sunday \u2013 A HK$1,500,000 mile race on the turf track for Australian trainer David Hall. It was Douglas Whyte\u2019s fourth win … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872"}],"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=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5897,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions\/5897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lauristonfarm.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}