{"id":7711,"date":"2014-01-08T23:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T23:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=7711"},"modified":"2014-01-08T23:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T23:55:53","slug":"mandla-caps-bel-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/mandla-caps-bel-week\/","title":{"rendered":"MANDLA CAPS BEL WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big start to 2014 for champion sire, Bel Esprit, with 8 winners in 8 days and punching above his weight at the first session of the Gold Coast Magic Millions Yearling Sale.<\/p>\n<p>With progeny such as Junction Jack, Gaelstorm, Vixen Hustler, Ballroom Dance, Coco Cash, Full Hand and She\u2019s Belleistic all scoring in the past week, the lightly raced 4YO, Mandla, might well have been the pick of the bunch in notching up his third win in succession with a solid effort as $1.80 favourite over 1200m at Geelong yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Trained by Mick Price (below) and out of the 6-time winning Rustic Amber mare, Queen Kahuna, Mandla has had a checkered career with his first start resulting in a stakes placed second (without luck) as a 2YO before resuming some 8 months later with another &#8211; troubled &#8211; second at Seymour. He has since run fourth at Sandown, second at the Valley and fifth at Caulfield before peeling off two wins at Seymour and now a win at Geelong.<\/p>\n<p>He clearly has plenty of ability and it will be interesting to see where he goes from here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MickPrice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7712\" alt=\"MickPrice\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/MickPrice.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big start to 2014 for champion sire, Bel Esprit, with 8 winners in 8 days and punching above his weight at the first session of the Gold Coast Magic Millions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-7711","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\/7711","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}