{"id":4144,"date":"2010-12-19T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T23:34:00","slug":"plenty-of-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/plenty-of-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"PLENTY OF SPIRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that \u201cyou don\u2019t have to be dead to be stiff\u201d and Audacious Spirit certainly fills the latter bill.<br \/>A very speedy colt trained by Gillian Heinrich (and sold out of Eliza Park\u2019s 2009 Melbourne Premier draft), Audacious Spirit (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_profile.html\">BEL ESPRIT<\/a>) was twice stakes placed in Queensland in June \u2013 running a head second in the Dalrello Stakes-LR at Doomben.<br \/>Resuming with a 6.5 length trial win at Doomben in early November, Audacious Spirit then outran a classy bunch over 1200m at Eagle Farm to score his maiden victory.<br \/>Unfortunately, he had to sit out two subsequent meetings he was entered for due to the inclement weather and was absolutely primed for the Gold Edition Stakes-LR at Doomben on Saturday (18 December).<br \/>However, on the way to the barrier, Audacious Spirit cast a plate and, having problems refitting it, the colt was eventually scratched.<br \/>Ah, the many travails of racing!<br \/>Bred by Robert Harding, Audacious Spirit is out of the Zeditave mare, Roskeel, a half sister to Bel Esprit\u2019s Group winning filly Vivacious Spirit.<br \/>Bad luck aside, Audacious Spirit appears to have what it takes and it shouldn\u2019t be long before he joins his close relative with black type writ large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an old saying that \u201cyou don\u2019t have to be dead to be stiff\u201d and Audacious Spirit certainly fills the latter bill.A very speedy colt trained by Gillian Heinrich &#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-4144","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\/4144","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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}