{"id":4093,"date":"2011-02-13T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2011-02-13T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:27:00","slug":"royal-performance-was-audacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/royal-performance-was-audacious\/","title":{"rendered":"ROYAL PERFORMANCE WAS AUDACIOUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a bold, front running display, Audacious Spirit went within a nostril of becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_pedigree.html\">BEL ESPRIT<\/a>\u2019s 11th stakes winner yesterday: just pipped on the line by Master Harry in the Group Two David Jones Royal Sovereign Stakes (1200m).<br \/>The last 100m was heart stopping as the colt battled on strongly for his owner Robert Harding and Gold Coast trainer Gillian Heinrich.<br \/>This is some colt \u2013 yet to finish out of the money in eight starts, this is the fourth time Audacious Spirit has figured in the first four at stakes level and his day in the sun is looming.<br \/>Eliza Park will be selling a full brother to Audacious Spirit at the 2011 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale on Tuesday 1 March [Lot 236] and, based on his Royal Sovereign performance, there\u2019ll be plenty of visitors to brother\u2019s box in Barn G at Oaklands Junction.<br \/>Audacious Spirit is out of the Zeditave mare Roskeel, who now has two winners (from two to race) and is a half sister to another Bel Esprit Group winner in Vivacious Spirit and the Group placed Jacques le Naif.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the disappointment of Audacious Spirit just missing the big prize in Sydney, Bel Esprit still enjoyed a successful weekend with Navillus Superman scoring at Bendigo on Saturday and Plain Lucky getting the money at Seymour today.<br \/>Navillus Superman, now with canny Victorian trainer, Andrew Noblet, had his first six outings in Queensland but appears to have appreciated the move south. At Bendigo, Navillus Superman jumped from the outside gate, but soon went to the front and held on like granny\u2019s tooth to score.<br \/>Bred by Peter Fraser, Navillus Superman is out of the Dolphin Street mare, Sharna Cabarna.<br \/>Meanwhile, racing in the first at Seymour the Mick Price trained Plain Lucky appears to be a very exciting prospect for connections.<br \/>Out of the Rory\u2019s Jester mare Jestawinna and bred by Milburn Creek Thoroughbreds in NSW, Plain Lucky had four trials in Western Australia \u2013 winning three of them \u2013 before being transferred to Mick Price\u2019s Caulfield stables.<br \/>No wonder they were watching him and was sent a $1.20 favourite.<br \/>According to Bel blogger, Brian Donohoe, this is the 43rd Bel Esprit to win on debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a bold, front running display, Audacious Spirit went within a nostril of becoming BEL ESPRIT\u2019s 11th stakes winner yesterday: just pipped on the line by Master Harry in the &#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-4093","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\/4093","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=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}