{"id":16947,"date":"2017-06-26T02:16:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16947"},"modified":"2017-06-26T02:16:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T02:16:57","slug":"trainer-following-tip-from-the-saddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/06\/26\/trainer-following-tip-from-the-saddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainer following tip from the saddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand trainer Michael Pitman is following the advice of national jockey&#8217;s premiership front-runner Chris Johnson with the consistent performer <strong>Flying Ibis<\/strong> (Nadeem x Fiery Sunset).<\/p>\n<p>The South Island horseman, who operates a successful training partnership with son Matthew, has designs on the Gr.3 eStar Winter Cup with the Amarina Farm born Fiery Sunset who was later sold as a weanling at the Inglis sale in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thinking about easing up on the horse but Chris, who has been riding him, said he would be an ideal Cup type and he has won over a mile at Riccarton before as well,&#8221;\u009d Pitman said.<\/p>\n<p>A winner in Hong Kong and also for Cambridge trainer Tony Pike before continuing his travels, Flying Ibis has added a further four victories to his record since transferring south.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s done a really good job since we&#8217;ve had him so we&#8217;ll keep going, there&#8217;s some nice races for him between now and the Cup.&#8221; Pitman said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>NZ Racing Desk.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand trainer Michael Pitman is following the advice of national jockey&#8217;s premiership front-runner Chris Johnson with the consistent performer 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":[1],"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\/16947"}],"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=16947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16948,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16947\/revisions\/16948"}],"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=16947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}