{"id":16924,"date":"2017-05-20T07:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16924"},"modified":"2017-05-20T07:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T07:36:20","slug":"overstep-back-in-form-at-flemington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/05\/20\/overstep-back-in-form-at-flemington\/","title":{"rendered":"Overstep back in form at Flemington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overstep<\/strong> (Exceed and Excel x Elusive Desire) has turned the tables on short-priced favourite Divine Quality in an impressive win at Flemington.<\/p>\n<p>The Chris Waller-trained Overstep, who was purchased by Michael Otto for $400,000 from Amarina Farm&#8217;s 2015 Inglis Easter draft,\u00a0enjoyed the weight relief in taking out the Light Fingers Hall of Fame Trophy (1200m) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ridden by Craig Newitt, Overstep ($10) scored a three-quarter length win from Motown Lil ($5.50) with the easing $2.30 favourite Divine Quality a length away third.<\/p>\n<p>Overstep carried 59kg when fourth behind Divine Quality in a similar class race at Flemington a fortnight ago and Newitt said the weight drop to 56.5kg on Saturday was welcome relief.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what we thought she&#8217;d do last start but she drew (barrier) one and she&#8217;s the type of horse that has no in between,&#8221; Newitt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s either flat out or out the back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today she drew a gate where she was able to get a smother straight away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She travelled well and never felt in any danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waller&#8217;s Melbourne representative Johanne Taylor said options remain open for the filly, who could step up to 1400m now she&#8217;s settling better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chris will have a look at the program and see if there&#8217;s anything in Sydney or Brisbane,&#8221; Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could go up to 1400 metres with her now and she goes around a bend really well so it opens up a lot of opportunities.<br \/>\n&#8220;Chris will place her where she&#8217;s most competitive.&#8221; <em><strong>-AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overstep (Exceed and Excel x Elusive Desire) has turned the tables on short-priced favourite Divine Quality in an impressive win at Flemington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16660,"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\/lot-382-elusive-desire-lr.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924"}],"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=16924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16925,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16924\/revisions\/16925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}