{"id":4468,"date":"2010-02-21T02:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=4468"},"modified":"2010-02-21T02:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:08:00","slug":"anquetil-gets-on-bike-at-the-rat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/anquetil-gets-on-bike-at-the-rat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ANQUETIL GETS ON BIKE AT THE \u2018RAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cranbourne trainer, Robbie Griffiths, will be pounding the pavement over the next week or two, searching for tomorrow\u2019s stars at the 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.<br \/>Robbie always buys a few out of Melbourne, but he\u2019s a real \u2018have catalogue, will travel\u2019 kind of guy and does his due diligence at sales throughout Australasia.<br \/>He particularly likes the progeny of Bel Esprit (his homebred, Beltrois, won the Doveton Stakes-LR at Caulfield in January) and purchased two colts by Victoria\u2019s Champion Sire at the 2007 Inglis Sydney Classic.<br \/>The now 4YO from Kala Dancer mare, Gogo Doll, is named Cascabel and \u2013 off a $18,000 purchase price \u2013 has subsequently pocketed close to $130,000 in stakes from three wins and six placings.<br \/>The other \u2013 a colt from Naturalism mare, Natural Jackie, cost Robbie a whole lot less \u2026. just $3,000 as a matter of fact.<br \/>Dubbed Anquetil, after the famous French cyclist, this Bel Esprit blew them away at Ballarat on Thursday (18 February), winning his second career outing by a massive five lengths.<br \/>It was some run. With Danny Brereton on board, the bay settled last until the turn for home and, racing wide, swallowed them whole.<br \/>To see just how impressive it was, check out the run by <a href=\"http:\/\/horseracing.bigpondsport.com\/Livevideoreplays\/tabid\/75\/videoid\/3468\/ballarat+race+6+-+18210\/Default.aspx\">clicking here<\/a>.<br \/>Let\u2019s put it this way \u2026 I\u2019d like to be as sure of backing a winner on Saturday as Robbie looking at every Bel Esprit stabled at Oaklands Junction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cranbourne trainer, Robbie Griffiths, will be pounding the pavement over the next week or two, searching for tomorrow\u2019s stars at the 2010 Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale.Robbie always buys a &#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-4468","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\/4468","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=4468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}