{"id":16916,"date":"2017-05-16T22:53:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16916"},"modified":"2017-05-16T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:53:25","slug":"karacatis-earns-third-shot-at-g1-goodwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/05\/16\/karacatis-earns-third-shot-at-g1-goodwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Karacatis earns third shot at G1 Goodwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trainer Richard Jolly is hoping for third time lucky with sprinter Karacatis<\/strong> (Hussonet x One In A Million)\u00a0in Adelaide’s premier sprint, the Group One Goodwood at Morphettville.<\/p>\n

The eight-year-old contests the $1 million race at Morphettville on Saturday coming off a last-start win in the D C McKay Stakes on May 6.<\/p>\n

Amarina Farm graduate Karacatis first contested the Goodwood in 2013, finishing fourth, beaten a length behind Platelet before returning the following year when sixth to Smokin’ Joey.<\/p>\n

Victory at his most recent start gave Karacatis an exemption from a Goodwood ballot.<\/p>\n

Jolly said Karacatis had lost his way last season and he and owner Neville Morgan contemplated his retirement.<\/p>\n

But a longer than normal spell and spacing the his runs seems to have renewed the gelding’s enthusiasm for racing.<\/p>\n

“I know he’s going a fortnight into the Goodwood but his races previously have been well spaced, a month apart,” Jolly said.<\/p>\n

“After he has a run he goes to the paddock for a week and when he comes back he has one gallop a week before he runs.<\/p>\n

“At this age he’s doing well using this method.”<\/p>\n

After finishing in the top four in three previous D C McKay outings, Karacatis was specifically aimed at this year’s race.<\/p>\n

Jolly said to win the Group Three race at his fourth attempt was a great result and convinced him he was worthy of taking his place on Saturday.<\/p>\n

But the barrier draw on Tuesday wasn’t kind to Karacatis or stablemate Karlovasi who came up with 18 and 19 respectively in the 20-horse field plus three emergencies. -AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trainer Richard Jolly is hoping for third time lucky with sprinter Karacatis (Hussonet x One In A Million)\u00a0in Adelaide’s premier sprint, the Group One Goodwood at Morphettville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16917,"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\/2017\/05\/Karacatis-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916"}],"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=16916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16916\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}