{"id":4287,"date":"2010-07-26T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2010-07-26T08:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T08:25:00","slug":"first-foal-for-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/first-foal-for-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST FOAL FOR 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first foal of the season \u2018arrived\u2019 at Eliza Park on Saturday night (24 July) and, somewhat fittingly, is by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_profile.html\">Bel Esprit<\/a> out of the Desert Sun mare Cranachan.<br \/>A bonny filly, according to Eliza Park\u2019s General Manager of Operations, David Somers, the newcomer was bred by Bill Ozzimo and Tony Talarico and is Cranachan\u2019s fourth foal following previous visits to Black Hawk and Delago Brom (twice).<br \/>Cranachan is out of the Bassenthwaite mare Balmacara whose eight victories included the NZ Thoroughbred Breeders\u2019 Stakes-G2 and was also runnerup in the Easter Handicap-G1.<br \/>Producing eight winners (from nine to race), Balmacara\u2019s best was the Magic Millions 3YO Trophy winner Jamieson Valley, while her unraced daughter Admit Anywhere has left black type horse Molotov, Lodge The Deeds and Best Friend.<br \/>Bel Esprit is poised to capture his third straight Victorian Sires\u2019 Premiership while Desert Sun \u2013 retired from active service last season \u2013 is Eliza Park\u2019s foundation stallion.<br \/>Interestingly, Eliza Park\u2019s first foal for 2010 is bred on the same Bel Esprit\/Desert Sun cross as unbeaten filly, Black Caviar (<i>below<\/i>).<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first foal of the season \u2018arrived\u2019 at Eliza Park on Saturday night (24 July) and, somewhat fittingly, is by Bel Esprit out of the Desert Sun mare Cranachan.A bonny &#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-4287","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\/4287","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=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}