{"id":3772,"date":"2012-05-19T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2012-05-19T04:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T04:05:00","slug":"astronomer-royals-first-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/astronomer-royals-first-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTRONOMER ROYAL\u2019S FIRST WINNER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">His foals sold well (up to $90,000), his yearlings even better (up to $260,000), we\u2019re getting great reports back from trainers and now this \u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Tara Madgwick reports on Astronomer Royal\u2019s first winner in England overnight.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">One of the last sons of Danzig to go to stud is young Eliza Park based shuttle sire Astronomer Royal (USA), who had his first winner overnight in the UK when Sir Patrick Moore won his debut over six furlongs by half a length at Newbury for Harry Dunlop.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">The colt is only the second runner from the first Northern Hemisphere crop of Astronomer Royal <i>(below)<\/i>, who stands at Reboursiere et de Montaigu in Normandy.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bred in France by SF Bloodstock LLC, Sir Patrick Moore was a relatively inexpensive \u20ac16,000 purchase by MAB Agency at last year\u2019s Arqana October Sale. He is the first foal out of French stakes-winner America Nova, a half-sister by Verglas to another French stakes-winner in Cat Nova.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Winner of the 2007 Poule d\u2019Essai des Poulains (French 2,000 Guineas) for Aidan O\u2019Brien, Astronomer Royal also won the Group III Greenlands Stakes and was placed in the Group I St James\u2019s Palace Stakes and Prix du Jockey Club.\u2028\u2028He has 40 two-year-olds in his first Northern Hemisphere crop and his oldest Australian progeny are yearlings that have sold for up to $260,000.\u2028\u2028Astronomer Royal stands this spring at Eliza Park at a fee of $7,700.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\n<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His foals sold well (up to $90,000), his yearlings even better (up to $260,000), we\u2019re getting great reports back from trainers and now this \u2026 Tara Madgwick reports on Astronomer &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}