{"id":35043,"date":"2019-03-12T14:22:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35043"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:22:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T14:22:17","slug":"cheltenham-festival-carrots-fuel-gold-cup-favorite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=35043","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham Festival: Carrots fuel Gold Cup favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Ditcheat, England (CNN)<\/cite>It&#8217;s lunchtime at Manor Farm Stables and Clan Des Obeaux, a joint favorite for Friday&#8217;s Cheltenham Gold Cup, wants his carrot, and he wants it now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Tall, dark and handsome, his coat glistening in the unusually warm February sun, the French-bred bay gelding pricks up his ears as Clifford Baker, the head lad, tickles his soft nose and hands him his favorite vegetable.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;He just is special, he&#8217;s won some big races,&#8221; Baker told CNN Sport at the yard in Ditcheat, a small village in the rolling hills of Somerset, England. &#8220;And you&#8217;re friendly, aren&#8217;t you? And you like carrots.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ditcheat, England (CNN)It&#8217;s lunchtime at Manor Farm Stables and Clan Des Obeaux, a joint favorite for Friday&#8217;s Cheltenham Gold Cup, wants his carrot, and he wants it now.Tall, dark and handsome, his coat glistening in the unusually warm February sun, the French-bred bay gelding pricks up his ears as Clifford Baker, the head lad, tickles&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}