{"id":7773,"date":"2014-02-10T07:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:03:23","slug":"iconic-not-so-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/iconic-not-so-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"ICONIC NOT SO LUCKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to feel sorry for a horse that has won $370k from only 10 outings, but Bel Esprit 3YO, Iconic, has had his share of misfortune at his last three tries.<\/p>\n<p>At Flemington on Cup day he found more trouble than Flash Gordon when second in the 1000m Schweppes and when resuming on 25 January he jumped wide, got caught well back but flew home for fifth, just 1.4 lengths off the winner at Caulfield.<\/p>\n<p>And on Saturday at Caulfield &#8211; in the G2 Rubiton &#8211; he probably wouldn\u2019t have beaten Lankan Rupee but did get held up turning for home and still managed second.<\/p>\n<p>Iconic (below) does still appear to be on target for the Newmarket on 8 March, taking on the race won by his VERY close relation, Black Caviar, in 2011 (Iconic is out of the Danehill mare, Danavia, in turn a half sister to Helsigne, dam of Black Caviar).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Iconic_DF4_1632.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7774\" alt=\"Iconic_DF4_1632\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Iconic_DF4_1632-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s difficult to feel sorry for a horse that has won $370k from only 10 outings, but Bel Esprit 3YO, Iconic, has had his share of misfortune at his last &#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-7773","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\/7773","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=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}