{"id":16910,"date":"2017-05-06T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16910"},"modified":"2017-05-06T07:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:22:28","slug":"fourth-time-a-charm-for-karacatis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/05\/06\/fourth-time-a-charm-for-karacatis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth time a charm for Karacatis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardy sprinter <strong>Karacatis<\/strong> (Hussonet x One In A Million)\u00a0landed the Gr.3 DC McKay Stakes (1100m) at his fourth attempt with a brave front-running effort at Morphettville on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Richard Jolly-trained galloper has been competitive in Adelaide&#8217;s best sprints for the past few seasons in a career that includes second placings in the 2013 and 2014 DC McKay Stakes while the son of Hussonet ran fourth in the 2015 edition of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Karacatis, who was purchased from the 2010 Magic Millions draft of Amarina Farm for $12,000,\u00a0finished a head from Karlovasi and Viddora in his last outing in the Listed Manihi Stakes (1100m) but held off all challengers under experienced Victorian jockey Noel Callow&#8217;s riding.<\/p>\n<p>Callow sent Karacatis to the lead from the outside gate early in the $175,000 contest but the gelding had Counter Pulse on his outside to the home turn.<\/p>\n<p>Counter Pulse briefly headed Karacatis ($17) at the 200m before the winner regained the lead and doggedly held off the challengers in the last 100m to score by a nose from the Robert Smerdon-trained Reldas ($15).<\/p>\n<p>Kaepernick ($10) made ground from the back of the field to get within a head of the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Karacatis is likely to progress to the Gr.1 Goodwood in a fortnight.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of 11 of his 50 starts has raced well in previous editions of the Goodwood, finishing fourth in 2013 and sixth in 2014.\u00a0 <em><strong>-racenet.com.au<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardy sprinter Karacatis (Hussonet x One In A Million)\u00a0landed the Gr.3 DC McKay Stakes (1100m) at his fourth attempt with a brave front-running effort at Morphettville on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16144,"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_Karacatis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910"}],"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=16910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16911,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16910\/revisions\/16911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}