{"id":16921,"date":"2017-05-18T01:14:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T01:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16921"},"modified":"2017-05-18T01:14:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T01:14:03","slug":"trainer-sticking-with-top-jockeys-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/05\/18\/trainer-sticking-with-top-jockeys-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainer sticking with top jockey\u2019s choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand trainer Michael Pitman is tipping a much better home track showing on Friday from <strong>Flying Ibis<\/strong> (Nadeem x Fiery Sunset).<\/p>\n<p>The Riccarton horseman, who enjoys a successful training partnership with his son Matthew, is expecting the seven-year-old to go close to victory in the skilled hands of Chris Johnson in the Yesberg Insurance Celebrating 30 Years Open Mile.<br \/>\nFlying Ibis was a winner on the course three runs back and then placed before he was out of the money in the Listed Great Easter Stakes.<br \/>\n\u201cHe had to be re-plated before the race, which wasn\u2019t a major deal, but the track was very puggy and it will be totally different this time,\u201d Pitman said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe horse is very well and Chris is sticking with him. He\u2019s number one down here and he could have ridden three or four others in the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flying Ibis was born at Amarina Farm before being sold as a weanling on behalf of SF Bloodstock at the 2010 Inglis sale. <em><strong>-NZ Racing Desk<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand trainer Michael Pitman is tipping a much better home track showing on Friday from Flying Ibis (Nadeem x Fiery Sunset).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16922,"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\/FLYING-IBIS-ACTION-TWO-2052.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921"}],"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=16921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16923,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16921\/revisions\/16923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}