{"id":4062,"date":"2011-03-27T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4062"},"modified":"2011-03-27T11:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T11:20:00","slug":"sun-continues-to-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/sun-continues-to-shine\/","title":{"rendered":"SUN CONTINUES TO SHINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What about Desert Sun?<br \/>Pensioned off in 2010 at the age of 21, the sire of superstar Sunline is now gaining considerable street cred as the broodmare sire of world champ, Black Caviar.<br \/>Just one of seven stakes winners from his daughters, Desert Sun is now among the top 15 Australian broodmare sires by earnings \u2013 up from 91st position in 2009\/10 \u2013 with an average earnings index of 4.22 and far less runners than those above him on the chart.<br \/>But the Green Desert stallion hasn\u2019t given up the ghost as \u2018sire\u2019 yet with his Irish bred 8YO, Sunny King, running a fantastic third behind Rocket Man in the Dubai Golden Shaheen-G1 over 1200m on Saturday.<br \/>Testimony to all versatility, Desert Sun notched up his 465th winner yesterday at Cranbourne when Blistered scored over 2025m \u2013 his first victory after 12 previous placings.<br \/>(It\u2019s fairly safe to assume that the Christine Boyd trained 6YO is named after the Violent Femmes song, Blister in the Sun \u2026 \u201c<i>when I\u2019m walkin\u2019 I strut my stuff man<\/i>\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><i>Desert Sun<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What about Desert Sun?Pensioned off in 2010 at the age of 21, the sire of superstar Sunline is now gaining considerable street cred as the broodmare sire of world champ, &#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-4062","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\/4062","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=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}