{"id":17601,"date":"2022-11-03T00:40:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=17601"},"modified":"2022-11-03T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T00:41:16","slug":"cup-day-stakes-win-for-epaulette-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2022\/11\/03\/cup-day-stakes-win-for-epaulette-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup Day Stakes Win for Epaulette Mare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Epaulette was sold by Darley and exported to the Turkish National Stud last year, but it doesn\u2019t stop him getting plenty of winners and stakes-winners with the Grahame Begg trained mare Vespertine winning the last race at Flemington on Cup Day to post a valuable Black Type success.<\/p>\n

Begg suffered the disappointment of having quality staying mare Lunar Flare scratched this morning from the Melbourne Cup due to lameness, but got some consolation when Vespertine scored a length and a half win in the Listed VRC MSS Mercury Sprint (1200m).<\/p>\n

Group placed last preparation, Vespertine was having her second run back from a spell and proved too good for Group I winner Shelby Sixtysix under a perfect ride from Michael Dee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were concerned about the track and when it got to a heavy 9 we were thinking about scratching, but she drew the right gate and had come on so much from her first up start this time around and out of a good form race,\u201d said Grahame Begg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were confident she\u2019s run well and it was a great ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

A $110,000 Inglis Classic purchase from the Amarina Farm draft for G M Begg Racing\/Rohan Hughes Thoroughbred Services, Vespertine has the overall record of four wins and six placings from 18 starts with prizemoney in excess of $380,000.<\/p>\n

She is the best of two winners from unraced Falvelon mare Sweet Nothings, who died in 2020 and was a half-sister to Group III winner Red Terror and stakes-winner Lim\u2019s Reward.<\/p>\n

Vespertine is the 19th stakes-winner for Golden Rose winner Epaulette, who now calls the Turkish National Stud home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Epaulette was sold by Darley and exported to the Turkish National Stud last year, but it doesn\u2019t stop him getting plenty of winners and stakes-winners with the Grahame Begg trained mare Vespertine winning the last race at Flemington on Cup Day to post a valuable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Vespertine_1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17601"}],"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=17601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17605,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17601\/revisions\/17605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}