{"id":4244,"date":"2010-09-23T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2010-09-23T00:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T00:29:00","slug":"little-works-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/little-works-the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"LITTLE WORKS THE ROOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caulfield trainer, Colin Little is a bloomin\u2019 marvel. Not only does he have an excellent eye for a horse, but he\u2019s also got the patience of Job.<br \/>Colin\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_profile.html\">BEL ESPRIT<\/a> flyer Work The Room is a case in point. The 5YO oozes talent but has had a career threatening injury which kept him off the racing scene for 15 months.<br \/>However, after solid victories at his first two starts \u2013 at Ballarat and Sandown \u2013 Colin nursed Work The Room back to full strength and he resumed in August with a bee\u2019s appendage second over 1200m at Geelong, laying in badly for most of the straight.<br \/>He then raced wide at his next start at Sale before finishing on solidly for third, beaten just on a length.<br \/>Then there was yesterday. Cyberhorse\u2019s Grayson White takes up the story:<\/p>\n<p>Despite an on course drift in the betting ring, the Colin Little-trained Work The Room broke through for his first win this preparation in the $30,000 Royal Charter Handicap (1700m) at Betfair Park.<br \/>Work The Room jumped well and was ridden positively by Luke Nolen who gave the lightly raced 5YO the run of the race sitting just off the pace with cover.<br \/>Turning for home, Work The Room looked to have the race won but a late charge along the rails by Foxham resulted in a winning margin of half a length.<br \/>Little was relieved to be back in the winners\u2019 circle with the Bel Esprit gelding who has carried big raps since showing a brilliant turn of foot at just his first race start.<br \/>\u201cIt was nice to be two to three lengths in front of Rundle in the run,\u201d said Little after the win. \u201cHe is a pretty promising horse and being Zipping\u2019s half brother he has always had a rap on him.\u201d<br \/>Little admitted the gelding\u2019s failure at its previous start was most likely because of the four week gap between runs due to unsuitable racing surfaces.<br \/>\u201cWe were looking for a good track and because we scratched him a few times he probably got to Sale a bit soft because we ticked him over a bit long,\u201d he said.<br \/>\u201cI still believe he will get better on top of the ground so there could be more improvement in him.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caulfield trainer, Colin Little is a bloomin\u2019 marvel. Not only does he have an excellent eye for a horse, but he\u2019s also got the patience of Job.Colin\u2019s BEL ESPRIT flyer &#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-4244","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\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}