{"id":17177,"date":"2018-10-19T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17177"},"modified":"2018-10-19T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T07:15:58","slug":"varsity-ready-for-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2018\/10\/19\/varsity-ready-for-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity ready for debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Perry is rarely without an early-running two-year-old and this year is no different.<\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle trainer will saddle up debutant <strong>Varsity<\/strong> (Exceed and Excel x Nediym&#8217;s Glow) in the Kirkham Plate at Randwick on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A $170,000 Magic Millions yearling purchased out of the draft of Amarina Farm, Varsity is regarded as one of the outsiders in the eight-horse field but has shown Perry enough in two barrier trials to warrant a trip to Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his first trial he had one or two horses come over (near him) and he sort of baulked at them and dropped right out, but he ran home terrific,&#8221; Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At Gosford we rode him in behind a couple and he trialled nicely there and he&#8217;s gone on since.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a nice enough horse and he&#8217;ll improve with racing.&#8221; -AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Perry is rarely without an early-running two-year-old and this year is no different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17080,"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\/12\/Lot-125-Nediyms-Glow-16.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177"}],"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=17177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17178,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17177\/revisions\/17178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}