{"id":3925,"date":"2011-10-16T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2011-10-16T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T19:57:00","slug":"belle-holds-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/belle-holds-court\/","title":{"rendered":"BELLE HOLDS COURT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another city double!<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

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Must confess that I\u2019ve never been to Murtoa, but given that Peter Moody trains Black Caviar and I couldn\u2019t train a pig to be dirty, I\u2019m prepared to take note when he sings the praises of Murtoa racetrack as an ideal entr\u00e9e to city competition.<\/span><\/div>\n
Cyberhorse\u2019s Carl Di Iorio takes up the story of Moody\u2019s Belle of the Court, who was the other half of yet another city double for Bel Esprit yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

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Bendigo racetrack is dubbed the \u2018Nursery of Champions\u2019 but perhaps Murtoa is a venue more fitting for such a description this season, particularly with horses from the Peter Moody stable.\n<\/p>\n

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Moment Of Change won by 10 lengths on debut at Murtoa before romping home by 3.75 lengths at Sandown Lakeside a fortnight later.\n<\/p>\n

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The latest \u2018Moody Murtoa\u2019 winner was Belle Of The Court, a winner by 3.25 lengths on debut, who then came out today and scored an all the way victory in the $70,000 Yellowglen Plate (1400m) for 3YO fillies at Caulfield yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a terrific track Murtoa \u2026 there\u2019s probably not a better surface in Victoria and we\u2019re not afraid to take them there,\u201d Moody said.\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe (Belle of the Court) has done a good job and is a very promising filly,\u201d jockey Luke Nolen added.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Moody said that should Belle Of The Court pull up well that she will contest a stakes race over the Melbourne Cup carnival.\n<\/p>\n

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At this stage this is likely to be either the $150,000 Lexus Hybrid Plate (1400m) on Melbourne Cup day or the $150,000 Gucci Stakes (1200m) on Oaks day.\n<\/p>\n

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Belle Of The Court is by Bel Esprit out of Dehere mare Miss Lenglen, who was also raced by the same owners of Belle Of The Court.\n<\/p>\n

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Miss Lenglen raced twice for a Cranbourne maiden victory at her second outing.\n<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, across the Nullabor, the Bruce Watkins trained Babieca Noire made it a city double for Bel Esprit by taking out the Sports Bar Handicap (1200m) at Ascot.\n<\/p>\n

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Now taking his earnings past the $100k mark, Babieca Noir has won two in town this campaign after scoring over 1000m at Belmont when resuming.\n<\/p>\n

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Bred by Simon Hearnden-Hunter, Babieca Noire is a near black 6YO and is out of yet another Snippets mare in French Snip (gee, the Bel Esprit\/Snippets is an awesome nick!).\n<\/p>\n

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Evidently \u2018Noir\u2019 is French for black, but had to do some further research for Babieca.\n<\/p>\n

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Evidently Babieca was the horse ridden by Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, better known in Spanish folklore as El Cid.\n<\/p>\n

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According to the story (click here<\/a>), Babieca died two years after El Cid \u2013 at the age of 40!! \u2013 and was buried next to his former master.\n<\/p>\n

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Another city double! Must confess that I\u2019ve never been to Murtoa, but given that Peter Moody trains Black Caviar and I couldn\u2019t train a pig to be dirty, I\u2019m prepared …<\/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-3925","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\/3925","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=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}