{"id":4295,"date":"2010-07-18T05:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-18T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2010-07-18T05:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T05:54:00","slug":"no-10-for-bel-esprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/no-10-for-bel-esprit\/","title":{"rendered":"NO. 10 FOR BEL ESPRIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Highly consistent filly, Peach Tree (<i>above<\/i>), became Bel Esprit\u2019s 10th stakes winner on Saturday (17 July) by taking out the Belmont Classic-LR (2200m).<br \/>A good thing beaten last time out in the Belmont Oaks-LR (protesting unsuccessfully against the winner), Peach Tree was bred by Kevin Sheedy and is out of the Naturalism mare, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Report from <i>Breednet<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>The Mark Reed-trained Peach Tree became the first of the progeny of Eliza Park Stud\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/stallions_bel_esprit_pedigree.html\">Bel Esprit<\/a> to win a stakes race at further than 1400 metres when she captured Saturday\u2019s Belmont Classic (2200m) at Belmont Park. <br \/>The 3YO filly has been a model of consistency of late, winning over 1300 metres on June 26 before finishing second in the Listed Belmont Oaks a week later. <br \/>Ridden by Daniel Staeck, Peach Tree came with a sweeping run from last to defeat Campobello (Hawk Wing) by 1.25 lengths with New Image (More Than Ready) 4.25 lengths astern.<br \/>\u201cHe settled a treat today and that did the trick,\u201d Reed told <i>Perth Racing<\/i>. \u201cHadn\u2019t planned to go that far back but Dan did a great job. She will go for a spell now.\u201d<br \/>Peach Tree has now won over $176,000 in prize money with four and seven places from her 14 starts.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inglis.com.au\/images\/pedigrees\/08MPY\/lot00496.pdf\">A $75,000 purchase at the 2008 Inglis Premier Yearling sale, Peach Tree is the fifth foal of the Naturalism mare Georgia, a mare owned by AFL legend Kevin Sheedy.<\/a><br \/>Sheedy was a member of the syndicate that raced the John Symonds-trained Bel Esprit who captured the Doomben 10000 (G1) and Blue Diamond Stakes (G1) before the son of Royal Academy embarked on what is becoming a successful and lucrative stud career at Eliza Park. <br \/>Georgia is a winning half-sister to Group 3 winner Painted Ocean from the family that has produced such luminaries as Triscay, La Baraka, Defier and Demerger. <br \/>She has a weanling filly by Bel Esprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly consistent filly, Peach Tree (above), became Bel Esprit\u2019s 10th stakes winner on Saturday (17 July) by taking out the Belmont Classic-LR (2200m).A good thing beaten last time out in &#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-4295","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\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}