{"id":16755,"date":"2016-11-04T04:39:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16755"},"modified":"2016-11-04T04:39:03","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T04:39:03","slug":"dylans-rojo-searching-for-form-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2016\/11\/04\/dylans-rojo-searching-for-form-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan&#8217;s Rojo searching for form reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A softer surface and controlling the lead are the factors trainer Kim Waugh believes are key to <strong>Dylan&#8217;s Rojo<\/strong> (Dylan Thomas x Princess Tinkabell) to putting in an improved effort for his Melbourne Cup-winning owners.<\/p>\n<p>Long-time Amarina client Ralph Johns and his family race Dylan&#8217;s Rojo and also had a share in 2014 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan&#8217;s Rojo was racing back then and went around at Hawkesbury two days after Protectionist cruised to victory in Australia&#8217;s greatest race.<\/p>\n<p>Protectionist returned to Europe where he won a Group One race before his retirement this week while Dylan&#8217;s Rojo returns to metropolitan grade in Saturday&#8217;s Ashbury Handicap (1550m) at Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan&#8217;s Rojo ran fourth first-up at Rosehill on September 24 and second at Port Macquarie on October 7.<\/p>\n<p>He was last of 12 runners at Taree on October 21, but trainer Waugh warns against reading too much into that performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He got to the front and then one of the outsiders took off and took him on so the jockey let it go and just kept running,&#8221; Waugh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It really sort of mucked the race up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was just a little bit jarry pulling up. Not too bad but the whole combination of things were a bit costly for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The natural front-runner is no wet-tracker but appreciates some give in the surface, Waugh said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s such a big heavy horse, it&#8217;s always nice when the sting is out of the track a little bit,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Waugh says Dylan&#8217;s Rojo gets the benefit of a significant weight drop to 54kg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been really pleased with him. His work&#8217;s been good this week so he&#8217;ll go well,&#8221; Waugh said.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Ford, who has been aboard Dylan&#8217;s Rojo for more than a third of his 25 starts, will get back on him on Saturday from barrier four.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan&#8217;s Rojo is a son of Zeditave mare Princess Tinkabell and was born at Amarina in 2010.\u00a0<em><strong>-AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A softer surface and controlling the lead are the factors trainer Kim Waugh believes are key to Dylan&#8217;s Rojo (Dylan Thomas x Princess Tinkabell) to putting in an improved effort for his Melbourne Cup-winning owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16654,"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\/07\/Dylans-Rojo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755"}],"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=16755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16756,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16755\/revisions\/16756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}