{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Idol Horse News Desk","title":"Hugh Bowman's hip and a week to decide","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1357,"description":"Hugh Bowman has a week to choose between major surgery with no timeline attached, and a cortisone injection that is pain relief rather than a fix, and which could have him back riding inside a month and carry him to Hong Kong's December international meeting. Adam Pengilly broke the story on Idol Horse on Tuesday.\nMichael Cox is joined by chief journalist David Morgan to work through what it means: why the outside view of Hong Kong racing as \"two days a week\" misreads what the job does to a body, what a riding roster looks like without the man who has finished second to Zac Purton in each of the last two premierships, whether the Jockey Club can realistically recruit its way out of the hole, and the opening it creates for Andrea Atzeni and the riders just below Bowman if he is absence.\nPlus: Coolmore's three-year-olds keep coming up short and Aidan O'Brien points to a low-grade infection in the yard; Belmont Park reopens Friday with Forever Young in the Jockey Club Gold Cup; and Hong Kong's track speed swings from class records at Sha Tin to times way outside standard at Happy Valley.\nBrought to you by Keeneland. The September Yearling Sale opens this week – 12 sessions running through Saturday 26 September, with more than 4,600 yearlings catalogued. Frank Chang is on the ground at Keeneland all week for Idol Horse, and we have already picked out ten of the most interesting prospects from a global perspective: the pedigrees that should matter in Hong Kong, Japan and Australia, not just in Kentucky.\nRead Adam Pengilly's exclusive and everything else at idolhorse.com","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HU6UHP8JTth-fiNTMkaLBkE5vFU0RLekupZ9mUVy3Mo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xN2Nk/NDIwYjcwYjhmMDRh/MDIyY2Q1MDZhYzYz/Mjg2NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}