{"id":16613,"date":"2016-03-19T20:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2016-03-19T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T20:31:44","slug":"gr-3-newmarket-for-artistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2016\/03\/19\/gr-3-newmarket-for-artistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr.3 Newmarket for Artistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The formidable combination of jockey Thomas Huet and the ever-improving mare <strong>Artistry<\/strong> (Shamardal x Lady Peony)\u00a0was further enhanced in a rejigged Gr.3 Newcastle Newmarket (1350m) at Rosehill on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Newcastle Newmarket was originally scheduled for Wednesday\u2019s meeting at the Beaumont track but the race was postponed due to surface water.<\/p>\n<p>Tacked onto the end of the Rosehill Golden Slipper day program, the $125,000 contest featured 10 runners and it was the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Artistry claiming victory after swooping down the outside of the straight.<\/p>\n<p>Huet and Artistry have now combined for an impressive six wins, with their only defeat coming first-up in the Group III Wenona Girl Handicap (1200m) when finishing fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Snowden hinted at a possible Group I Doncaster Mile start for Artistry, a four-year-old mare that has made a swift progression from her benchmark 70 win last preparation to Saturday\u2019s maiden black type success.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a great result, Thomas (Huet) has built up an association with this mare so it\u2019s pretty hard to take him off,\u201d Snowden said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She\u2019s just getting better and better, the Emancipation was the plan this preparation but after a set back it will be a bit difficult to get there now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who knows, she might be a light weight Doncaster chance yet, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Artistry was born and raised at Amarina\u00a0 for Western Australia-based Neven Botica, who was on track to watch the 4yo mare open her stakes account.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I bred her myself, she is by Shamardal and her mum is in foal to Tavistock which is really exciting,\u201d Botica said.<\/p>\n<p>Artistry is a daughter of the unraced Belong To Me mare Lady Peony whose dam Zebizan is a sister to Group 1 winner Cronus and Group II winner Pravda as well as the unraced Milliyet the dam of triple Group 1 winner Samantha Miss. <em><strong>-AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The formidable combination of jockey Thomas Huet and the ever-improving mare Artistry (Shamardal x Lady Peony) was further enhanced in a rejigged Gr.3 Newcastle Newmarket (1350m) at Rosehill on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Artistry190316.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16614,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16613\/revisions\/16614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}