{"id":4141,"date":"2010-12-19T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4141"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T23:45:00","slug":"belgietto-four-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/belgietto-four-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"BELGIETTO \u2013 FOUR IN A ROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gelagotis\u2019 outstanding miler, Belgietto, is poised to become <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_profile.html\">BEL ESPRIT<\/a>\u2019s 11th stakes winner following another brilliant performance at Flemington on Saturday (18 December).<br \/>The lightly raced 4YO is on fire and the victory at headquarters was his fourth in a row and second on the trot at Flemington.<br \/>Never far out of the money, Belgietto has now raced on 13 occasions for five wins and three placings \u2026 indeed, he\u2019s only returned home twice without a cheque and two of his city placings figured prominently in stewards\u2019 reports.<br \/>Although held up behind a wall of horses on Saturday, Belgietto got the split and proved too strong in the run home \u2026 he\u2019s certainly game!<br \/>Out of the stakes winning Sackford mare, Adagietto, Belgietto is a half brother to four winners including the stakes placed Radio Song and is closely related to Moonee Valley stakes winner Captiva and Hong Kong Group One winner Packing Winner.<br \/>It\u2019s beyond me as to why you would call a horse Adagietto \u2013 the musical term for \u2018very slow\u2019 \u2013 but it didn\u2019t exactly put the breaks on her and has hardly had an impact on Belgietto!<\/p>\n<p>Sold through Eliza Park\u2019s 2008 Magic Millions Horses in Training draft at the Gold Coast, Belgietto is raced by a syndicate which includes \u2018Boss Hogg\u2019 (for all you Dukes of Hazzard fans) and Manny Gelagotis.<br \/>A long time client of Eliza Park, Manny played professional soccer (six years with the Gippsland Falcons) and is the owner of Michaels Golden Hen Moe Caf\u00e9 and Silks Restaurant on George, plus runs the Moe Racing Club Turfside Bistro &#038; Function Centre.<br \/>Manny also operates GW Racing Bloodstock, a boutique thoroughbred agency with a \u201cselective clientele which allows me to focus on quality rather than quantity\u201d.<br \/>It\u2019s certainly working with Belgietto \u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><i>Belgietto scores at Flemington. Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slickpix.com.au\/\">Slickpix<\/a><\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gelagotis\u2019 outstanding miler, Belgietto, is poised to become BEL ESPRIT\u2019s 11th stakes winner following another brilliant performance at Flemington on Saturday (18 December).The lightly raced 4YO is on fire &#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-4141","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\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}