{"id":16968,"date":"2017-09-27T08:04:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/?p=16968"},"modified":"2017-09-27T08:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:05:20","slug":"16968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/2017\/09\/27\/16968\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheidel set to star in Moir Stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>Sheidel<\/strong> (Holy Roman Emperor x Laventour) is yet to win at Moonee Valley but her co-trainer David Hayes has pointed to a couple of factors he believes could spark a big performance from the mare in the Gr.1 Moir Stakes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">This year&#8217;s Oakleigh Plate winner is one of three runners for the Lindsay Park stable in Friday night&#8217;s 1000m weight-for-age sprint.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">Sheidel finished fourth in the Gr.3 The Heath at Caulfield first-up on September 2 and Hayes said the mare had since visited a stallion to be served with the intention to race on through spring before being retired.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">Sheidel, who was born and raised at Amarina Farm, will have blinkers on in a race for the first time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">&#8220;Sheidel has been covered in between starts,&#8221; Hayes said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">&#8220;And she has got blinkers. So she&#8217;s got two major changes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">&#8220;Her Valley record is poor but I think with those two changes she could go very, very well.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">Sheidel has champion Hong Kong-based jockey Joao Moreira aboard, who has two wins from three rides on the mare including the Oakleigh Plate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">&#8220;That&#8217;s another big plus,&#8221; Hayes said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">&#8220;I think she&#8217;ll run very well. The only query is the Valley.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;\">Sheidel has not won in her three Moonee Valley starts.<em><strong> -AAP<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheidel (Holy Roman Emperor x Laventour) is yet to win at Moonee Valley but her co-trainer David Hayes has pointed to a couple of factors he believes could spark a big performance from the mare in the Gr.1 Moir Stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Sheidel-AAP.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16968"}],"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=16968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16972,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16968\/revisions\/16972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amarinafarm.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}