{"id":17278,"date":"2019-05-11T05:56:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17278"},"modified":"2019-05-11T05:56:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:56:17","slug":"brisbane-carnival-awaits-in-form-zoutori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2019\/05\/11\/brisbane-carnival-awaits-in-form-zoutori\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane carnival awaits in-form Zoutori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Brisbane for the winter carnival is the likely next stop for <strong>Zoutori<\/strong> (Zoustar x Atotori) after the three-year-old completed a winning hat-trick at Caulfield.<\/p>\n<p>Carrying the steadier of 60kg in Saturday&#8217;s Rod Fenwick Handicap (1600m), Zoutori, the $2.40 favourite, gave Craig Williams the second leg of an early double with his 1-1\/4 length win.<\/p>\n<p>Co-trainer Mathew Ellerton, who trains in partnership with cousin Simon Zahra, said a trip to Brisbane was now likely in a bid to boost his rating ahead of the spring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what his ceiling is but we might go and give him his chance up in Queensland in something a bit better,&#8221; Ellerton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I put this horse in the paddock and think about the spring he&#8217;ll be stuck in no-mans-land with his rating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a horse on the up and there&#8217;s a couple of suitable races up there for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zoutori is among the 144 nominations for the Gr.1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm on June 8 while Ellerton said the Gr.1 Queensland Guineas (1600m) on the same day could be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Ellerton said the Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Eagle Farm on May 25 would determine his Brisbane goal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s in the Stradbroke but I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s that good,&#8221; Ellerton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll run him in the Fred Best and see where that takes us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zoutori was sold through Amarina Farm&#8217;s 2017 Inglis Easter draft when knocked down to Ellerton Zahra Racing for $160,000. -AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trip to Brisbane for the winter carnival is the likely next stop for Zoutori (Zoustar x Atotori) after the three-year-old completed a winning hat-trick at Caulfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[116],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Zoutori-Caulfield-11.5.19-AAP.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278"}],"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=17278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17280,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17278\/revisions\/17280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}