{"id":4064,"date":"2011-03-26T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2011-03-26T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:48:00","slug":"dubai-gets-a-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/dubai-gets-a-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"DUBAI GETS A ROCKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to Dean Fleming, brother of Eliza Park principal Lee, whose home-bred Rocket Man took out the $US2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan on Saturday (26 March).<br \/>Greg Irvine takes up the story \u2026<br \/>The best horse ever to race in Singapore, Rocket Man sat on the outside of American speedstar Euroears throughout, before unleashing a paralysing burst of speed over the final 200m to race clear for a 2.25 length win.<br \/>The win helped erase memories of last year\u2019s Golden Shaheen when the star Viscount gelding was narrowly and unluckily beaten.<br \/>This time around nothing was going to stop the mighty Rocket Man from confirming his status as one of the world\u2019s best.<br \/>Rocket Man was selected and purchased as a yearling for $60,000 from the 2007 Magic Millions National Yearling Sale.<br \/>He was offered for sale by Tyreel Thoroughbred Stud and purchased by Andy Williams\u2019 World Wide Bloodstock.<br \/>Rocket Man is raced by South African based businessman Fred Crabbia and trained by master horseman Patrick Shaw.<br \/>\u201cI was confident all week because I have never had him better,\u201d Shaw said.<br \/>\u201cWinning on an international stage like Dubai is very special. I don\u2019t know where we go next with Rocket Man.\u201d<br \/>\u201cRoyal Ascot want him in the summer. But so do the Australians to take on Black Caviar &#8211; so we\u2019ll see,\u201d Shaw added.<br \/>Champion international jockey Felix Coetzee has ridden many great racehorses over the years and he couldn\u2019t speak more highly of Rocket Man.<br \/>\u201cI got a great start and I took him back to give Euroears the lead and tracked him,\u201d Coetzee commented.<br \/>\u201cI saw Mike Smith go for his horse and when I picked up Rocket Man he responded. He is so gutsy.\u201d<br \/>\u201cIt was a great feeling &#8211; like being in a top sports car &#8211; he was flying!\u201d<br \/>\u201cThis is the most tenacious horse I\u2019ve ever ridden. He\u2019s a super horse.\u201d<br \/>Magic Millions Acting Managing Director David Chester said the win of Rocket Man was a great result for Australia.<br \/>\u201cOver recent seasons Rocket Man has proved himself as one of the world\u2019s great racehorses &#8211; and he\u2019s doing it on the tough international circuit.\u201d<br \/>A half brother to the South African Group One winner Our Giant, Rocket Man has won 14 races from 18 starts &#8211; he was second at other four and has never been beaten further than a long neck.<br \/>The $60,000 purchase has now won the equivalent of A$3.76 million.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dean Fleming, brother of Eliza Park principal Lee, whose home-bred Rocket Man took out the $US2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan on Saturday (26 March).Greg Irvine takes &#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-4064","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\/4064","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=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}