{"id":4311,"date":"2010-06-27T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2010-06-27T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:47:00","slug":"bel-esprit-notches-the-ton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/bel-esprit-notches-the-ton\/","title":{"rendered":"BEL ESPRIT: NOTCHES THE TON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been a wintry Sunday at Cranbourne, but first starter Balavan has created history of sorts by becoming Bel\u2019s Esprit\u2019s 100th individual winner for the 2009-10 season.<br \/>Out of the Flying Spur mare Danure (and closely related to Danzero), Balavan was bred by A Basetti and is clearly above average, heading to the lead on turning for home and scooting away to win by three panels: by a lot more if jockey Peter Mertens was pushing.<br \/>According to Bel Esprit stats guru Brian Donohoe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balavan is one of 36 Bel Esprits to win at their first start<\/li>\n<li>Balavan\u2019s trainer, Tony Vasil, also trained Rich Forever \u2013 the second Bel Esprit to win in Victoria (18 January 2007)<\/li>\n<li>Of Bel Esprit\u2019s 100 winners, 90 won in Australia, 5 in Singapore, 3 in Hong Kong, 1 in Macau and 1 in Korea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been a wintry Sunday at Cranbourne, but first starter Balavan has created history of sorts by becoming Bel\u2019s Esprit\u2019s 100th individual winner for the 2009-10 season.Out of &#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-4311","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\/4311","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=4311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}