{"id":24328,"date":"2022-02-22T17:52:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/?p=24328"},"modified":"2022-02-22T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:52:39","slug":"icebath-after-rich-wildcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/icebath-after-rich-wildcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Icebath after rich wildcard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Trainer Brad Widdup is still hopeful his star mare <strong>Icebath (NZ)<\/strong> (Sacred Falls) can gain a berth in next month\u2019s A$5 million All-Star Mile (1600m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The daughter of Sacred Falls has already featured in two other Australian rich features, finishing runner-up in last year\u2019s A$7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m), and winning the inaugural A$2 million The Invitation (1400m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the five-year-old would need a wildcard to make the field, so Widdup is currently playing the waiting game but has several other targets in-mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe target will be the Doncaster (Gr.1, 1600m),\u201d Widdup told <em>Racing HQ<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe was nominated for the All-Star Mile and there are still a couple of wildcards to go there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA high-class mare like her they are letting sit on the shelf a bit so they probably need to be having a look at her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere is plenty of racing in Sydney and we will look at something like the Coolmore (Legacy) or George Ryder (Gr.1, 1500m).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Widdup currently has his attention with the mare firmly set on Randwick on Saturday where she will line-up in the Gr.2 Guy Walter Proven Thoroughbreds Stakes (1400m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She finished sixth first-up in the Gr.2 Apollo Stakes (1400m) at the Sydney track earlier this month and Widdup has been pleased with her progress since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe is in good order,\u201d Widdup said. \u201cShe had a nice, solid hit-out first-up. We kicked her off over 1400m and she took no harm out of that at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe is ready to go, is very well and has been ticking over very nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Widdup purchased the Waikato Stud-bred filly in Australia as a yearling for $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trainer Brad Widdup is still hopeful his star mare Icebath (NZ) (Sacred Falls) can gain a berth in next month\u2019s A$5 million All-Star Mile (1600m). The daughter of Sacred Falls has already featured in two other Australian rich features, finishing runner-up in last year\u2019s A$7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m), and winning the inaugural A$2 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"category-racing"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Icebath-Kembla-Grange-2020-BP-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24329,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24328\/revisions\/24329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingnews.co.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}