{"id":16585,"date":"2016-02-29T22:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2016-02-29T22:55:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T22:55:04","slug":"catkins-retired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2016\/02\/29\/catkins-retired\/","title":{"rendered":"Catkins retired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Waller\u00a0has announced the retirement of<strong>\u00a0Catkins<\/strong> (Dubawi x Salix Caprea) who will begin the next phase of her life as a broodmare.<\/p>\n<p>Popular grey mare Catkins did not win a Group One race during her career but amassed $2 million prize money from her stakes performances over five seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Catkins raced below par in last month&#8217;s Millie Fox Stakes and after a barrier trial on Monday, her owners, the Ingham family, made the decision she should be retired.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has been a great horse to us all and finishes her racing career to embark on what I believe will be a successful breeding career,&#8221; Waller said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Catkins was a winner of 16 starts over her 38 start career, 11 of those wins coming at Group level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The winning reception received each time she won when carrying the famous cerise colours of the Ingham Family was always extremely satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must thank the Ingham Family for the trust they placed in me as her trainer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Catkins was bred by George Carter, long time friend of Craig and Sue.\u00a0 She went through Amarina&#8217;s 2011 Magic Millions draft where she made $85,000.\u00a0 Though she never managed to win a Gr.1\u00a0Catkins amassed $2 million prize money from her stakes performances, including five wins at Gr.2 level.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Waller has announced the retirement of Catkins (Dubawi x Salix Caprea) who will begin the next phase of her life as a broodmare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Catkins-Sheraco.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16587,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16585\/revisions\/16587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}