{"id":17756,"date":"2013-02-03T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T22:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/martial-eagle-lands-jb-met\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T22:51:10","slug":"martial-eagle-lands-jb-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/martial-eagle-lands-jb-met\/","title":{"rendered":"Martial Eagle lands J&amp;B Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pall of stunned silence descended over Kenilworth on Saturday as rank outsider Martial Eagle stormed home to win the R2,5 million Gr1 JB Met in front of a festive crowd in blustery conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Ignored by the experts, the son of Silvano started at 80-1 and appropriately rose to the \u2018Made To Fly\u2019 theme of the momentous day to give leading owner Sabine Plattner a second winner in the prestigious race.<\/p>\n<p>Jockey Aldo Domeyer, bubbling with his characteristic confidence, rode a cool race from the 15 draw on the seven-year-old gelding.<\/p>\n<p>Plattner Racing won the Met in 2003 with Angus, and there was also a touch of irony at play as Brett Crawford, who trained Angus, sent out the beaten favourite Jackson, who ran a disappointing fifth today. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingpost.co.za\/2013\/02\/02\/frontpage\/gr1-jb-met-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">sportingpost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pall of stunned silence descended over Kenilworth on Saturday as rank outsider Martial Eagle stormed home to win the R2,5 million Gr1 JB Met in front of a festive crowd in blustery conditions. Ignored by the experts, the son of Silvano started at 80-1 and appropriately rose to the \u2018Made To Fly\u2019 theme of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}