{"id":17132,"date":"2018-02-23T19:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17132"},"modified":"2018-02-23T19:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:36:43","slug":"sheidel-aiming-for-back-to-back-oakleigh-plate-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2018\/02\/23\/sheidel-aiming-for-back-to-back-oakleigh-plate-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheidel aiming for back-to-back Oakleigh Plate wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Connections considered retiring Sheidel<\/strong> (Holy Roman Emperor x Laventour) but an impressive lead-up has led to the mare getting a chance to defend her crown in Saturday\u2019s Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sheidel, who was born and raised at Amarina Farm, won last year\u2019s Oakleigh Plate and competed well in both the Newmarket Handicap and William Reid Stakes but the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor didn\u2019t race at the same level in the spring.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sheidel ran third to She Will Reign in the Gr.1 Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley, but she was unplaced in subsequent lesser races. Co-trainer David Hayes said a long campaign was the likely cause of flat performances.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast season, she went through the spring, then went and ran second in the Winterbottom, came back and went huge in the autumn and won the Oakleigh Plate,\u201d Hayes, who trains Sheidel in partnership with his son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBecause she had been up for 12 months, she just had a bit of an ordinary spring. I think she just didn\u2019t come up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe did really well in her break and he (owner Robert Crabtree) was thinking of retiring her but I said, \u2018why not give her another go to defend her title?\u2019 and she has come back well.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame trainer said Sheidel\u2019s two unofficial trials have gone some way to justifying the decision to press on with the winner of 15 of 34 starts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe trialled really well here (at Flemington) first and then we went to Kilmore,\u201d Hayes said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe way she trialled at Kilmore, where she won the trial by 11 lengths, she was just cruising all the way.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut she goes really well at Caulfield and her latest trial was excellent so we\u2019re hoping she can go as well this year.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Damien Oliver will ride Sheidel in the Oakleigh Plate. Sheidel will jump from barrier 10 if the emergencies fail to gain a start in the race. -racenet.com.au<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Connections considered retiring Sheidel (Holy Roman Emperor x Laventour) but an impressive lead-up has led to the mare getting a chance to defend her crown in Saturday\u2019s Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16969,"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\/09\/Sheidel-AAP.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132"}],"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=17132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17132\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}