{"id":16941,"date":"2017-06-14T08:54:52","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T08:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16941"},"modified":"2017-06-14T08:54:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T08:54:52","slug":"mulk-defeats-older-maidens-at-sandown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/06\/14\/mulk-defeats-older-maidens-at-sandown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mulk defeats older maidens at Sandown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lindsay Park stable has added to its haul of two-year-old victories with <strong>Mulk<\/strong> (Sepoy x Riptide) successful against older horses at Sandown.<\/p>\n<p>Mulk, who was sold for $170,000 from Amarina Farm&#8217;s 2016 Magic Millions draft, powered to an all-the-way victory in the Chandler Macleod Plate, a maiden race over 1400m, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sent off the $2.35 favourite, Mulk kicked clear turning for home to score by three lengths from Oracabessa ($5) with Redrouz ($8) a neck away third.<\/p>\n<p>Mulk became Lindsay Park&#8217;s 38th two-year-old winner for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Co-trainer Ben Hayes said the victory was pain-free and made up for the colt&#8217;s second placing over the same trip against his own age a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last start he was a little more keen early and that&#8217;s why he didn&#8217;t finish the race off,&#8221; Hayes said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having that run helped and he dominated today from the front.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll take him through the grades and I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;ll be a good horse for the stable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Damien Oliver, who rode Mulk last week and again on Wednesday, concurred with Hayes the short turnaround helped the colt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He relaxed a lot better in front and that helped him finish it off today,&#8221; Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>The win moved the Lindsay Park operation to within one win of its personal best of 103 in 2006\/07 set by David Hayes who is now the senior trainer in the partnership which also includes Tom Dabernig.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>-AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lindsay Park stable has added to its haul of two-year-old victories with Mulk (Sepoy x Riptide) successful against older horses at Sandown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mulk-Sepoy-x-Riptide-MM-2016.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941"}],"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=16941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16943,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16941\/revisions\/16943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}