{"id":32597,"date":"2018-11-15T04:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32597"},"modified":"2018-11-15T04:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T04:55:55","slug":"one-ear-but-he-has-a-big-heart-barn-favorite-ryalex-posts-24-length-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=32597","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;One Ear But He Has A Big Heart&rsquo;: Barn-Favorite Ryalex Posts 24-Length Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryalex drew attention at Carlisle Racecourse on Monday for his eye-catching 24 -length victory in a 2 1\/2 -mile point-to-point contest, and also because the   7-year-old has actually one ear. According to racingpost.com, the gelding usually races in a hood, but trainer Lucinda Russell removed the gear for this race. The resulting victory was Ryalex&#8217;s first in 11 starts under rules.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We&#8217;re specially fond of him because he has only one ear ,&#8221; said Peter Scudamore, Russell&#8217;s partner.&#8221; He lost it in an incident in Ireland before we bought him .&#8221; <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He may merely have one ear but he has a big heart <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ryalex?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> #ryalex<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/winner?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> #winner<\/a> all well and good Stephen, County Set 5, Keith Hunter and everyone at home <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobHunter87?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> @RobHunter87<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XkaLBNXYQg\">https :\/\/ t.co\/ XkaLBNXYQg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; lucinda russell (@ lucindavrussell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucindavrussell\/status\/1062014975697399808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingpost.com\/news\/latest\/one-eared-ryalex-causes-a-stir-with-wide-margin-carlisle-victory\/353503?utm_source=Twitter&#038;utm_medium=Social&#038;utm_campaign=RP-MondayNews&#038;utm_content=Ryalex\">racingpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It was all over from a long way out as Ryalex justifies favouritism to win by a very large boundary for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucindavrussell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> @lucindavrussell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MulqueenStephen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"> @MulqueenStephen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cag4fQIbH2\">pic.twitter.com\/ Cag4fQIbH 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Carlisle Racecourse (@ CarlisleRaces) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlisleRaces\/status\/1062001873346007041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulickreport.com\/news\/thoroughbred-racing\/one-ear-but-he-has-a-big-heart-barn-favorite-ryalex-posts-24-length-victory\/\">&#8216;One Ear But He Has A Big Heart &#8216;: Barn-Favorite Ryalex Posts 24 -Length Victory<\/a> seemed first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulickreport.com\">Horse Racing News | Paulick Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulickreport.com\/news\/thoroughbred-racing\/one-ear-but-he-has-a-big-heart-barn-favorite-ryalex-posts-24-length-victory\/\">paulickreport.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryalex drew attention at Carlisle Racecourse on Monday for his eye-catching 24 -length victory in a 2 1\/2 -mile point-to-point contest, and also because the 7-year-old has actually one ear. According to racingpost.com, the gelding usually races in a hood, but trainer Lucinda Russell removed the gear for this race. The resulting victory was Ryalex&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15692,17303,16671,17304,17305,17306,3397,17307],"class_list":["post-32597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-horse-racing","tag-lucinda-russell","tag-nl-article","tag-one-ear","tag-peter-scudamore","tag-point-to-point","tag-racing","tag-ryalex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/ryalex1542257757.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}