{"id":16647,"date":"2016-06-28T08:59:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16647"},"modified":"2016-06-28T08:59:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:59:37","slug":"zabeelions-comes-back-in-distance-at-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2016\/06\/28\/zabeelions-comes-back-in-distance-at-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Zabeelions comes back in distance at Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer Gerald Ryan has changed tack with <strong>Zabeelions<\/strong> (Zabeel x Kisumu)\u00a0who has not lived up to his staying bloodlines.<\/p>\n<p>The four-year-old will be brought back in distance with Wednesday&#8217;s Pro-Ride Handicap at Rosehill over 1600 metres his next test.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by long-time\u00a0Amarina clients Damion Flower and his wife Camilla, Zabeelions is a brother to 2012 South Australian Derby winner Zabeelionaire and 2013 Queensland Oaks winner Gondokoro.\u00a0 He spelled at Amarina when purchased by Flower who paid $420,000 for him in 2013.\u00a0 Zabeelions has since won two races over 2000 and 2100 metres from 14 starts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve tried him twice at 2200 metres and he has failed each time,&#8221; Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He comes into those longer races as if he&#8217;s going to win but hasn&#8217;t finished them off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;s proved he can&#8217;t run 2200 metres or further so we&#8217;ll bring him back to 1600 metres and keep him to middle distances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He goes well on wet tracks. He&#8217;s a brother to a Derby and an Oaks winner but I think 2000 metres pulls him up.&#8221;<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer Gerald Ryan has changed tack with Zabeelions (Zabeel x Kisumu) who has not lived up to his staying bloodlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16648,"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\/06\/Zabeelions-wins-at-Wyong-300415-1913.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647"}],"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=16647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16649,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16647\/revisions\/16649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}