{"id":16650,"date":"2016-06-28T09:04:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16650"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:04:30","slug":"kansas-sunflower-out-to-break-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2016\/06\/28\/kansas-sunflower-out-to-break-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Sunflower out to break drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer Luke Oliver is hoping <strong>Kansas Sunflower<\/strong> (Mastercraftsman x Virginia Key) can go one better than her recent string of runner-up finishes when the mare chases her first win in more than a year on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Sunflower is nominated for two Caulfield races and Oliver said she will run in the 1200m benchmark-90 for mares, with Craig Williams to ride.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Sunflower finished second for the third consecutive time, in her most recent start at Bendigo, over 1300m and it was her fifth runner-up finish in 12 starts since she won at Flemington in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve given her a bit of a freshen up since her last run (on June 2),&#8221; Oliver said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s consistent but she just needs to win another one, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She seems to race well at Caulfield and a soft track would be ideal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has kept the mare fresh for Saturday before looking to step her up to 1500m next start.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas Sunflower was sold from Amarina Farm&#8217;s 2013 Inglis Classic draft for $60,000. <em><strong>-AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer Luke Oliver is hoping Kansas Sunflower (Mastercraftsman x Virginia Key) can go one better than her recent string of runner-up finishes when the mare chases her first win in more than a year on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16143,"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\/01\/Amarina_Performers_440x330_KansasFlower.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650"}],"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=16650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16651,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16650\/revisions\/16651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}