{"id":4074,"date":"2015-10-04T00:13:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T00:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2015-10-01T04:38:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T04:38:03","slug":"theyre-off-on-friday-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;They&#8217;re off&#8221; on Friday 16th!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"246\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?attachment_id=246\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"841,595\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wealth\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-246 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Wealth\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/files\/2011\/03\/Wealth.jpg 841w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Blog\u2019s editorial team are getting excited about\u00a0 the start of this season\u2019s national Hunt Racing at Wincanton on Friday 16<sup>th<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n<p>Our racing correspondent Winterborne Longjohns is surely sharpening his pen and his wits to bring you the very best racing information as we write this. (He has been very quiet during the summer.)<\/p>\n<p>Every year optimism triumphs over experience. Modest sums are lodged with Paddy Power and William Hill, and we convince ourselves against all the odds that that Messrs Tizzard, Nicholls, Hobbs and Fry can land that elusive 25,000-1 Yankee.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the racing at the course is great fun. There is a band of regulars who are very welcoming, and there are many local people there.<\/p>\n<p>It costs \u00a320 for a Premier enclosure ticket on the gate, but you can save a fiver by booking in advance at <a href=\"http:\/\/wincanton.thejockeyclub.co.uk\/events-tickets\/whats-on\/under-starters-orders\">http:\/\/wincanton.thejockeyclub.co.uk\/events-tickets\/whats-on\/under-starters-orders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can pay \u00a323 in advance and get a \u201cPremium Punters ticket\u201d, which provides entrance, a race card with Timeform ratings, a pint of lager or a glass of wine and a \u00a35.00 food voucher. Great value, since the extras alone will set you back about \u00a312 if you bought them separately.<\/p>\n<p>There are further race meetings\u00a0 on October 25<sup>th<\/sup> and November 7<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>See you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blog\u2019s editorial team are getting excited about\u00a0 the start of this season\u2019s national Hunt Racing at Wincanton on Friday 16th October. Our racing correspondent Winterborne Longjohns is surely sharpening his pen and his wits to bring you the very best racing information as we write this. (He has been very quiet during the summer.) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=4074\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;They&#8217;re off&#8221; on Friday 16th!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757,2763],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-13I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4077,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions\/4077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}