{"id":1053,"date":"2009-01-08T23:32:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T22:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2009-01-09T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T10:06:15","slug":"eclipse-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse Award 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Den 26 januari h\u00e5lls den stora Eclipse Award-galan p\u00e5 Hotell Fontainebleau, Miami Beach. P\u00e5 torsdagen presenterades tre finalister i 16 olika kategorier \u2013 elva f\u00f6r fyrbenta och fem f\u00f6r tv\u00e5benta akt\u00f6rer. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I den tyngsta titeln av dem alla, \u201dHorse of the Year\u201d, finns dock inga nomineringar\/finalister. Men den m\u00e5ste v\u00e4l g\u00e5 till Curlin!? Den Steve Asmussen-tr\u00e4nade fuxhingsten \u00e4r dessutom dunderfavorit i kategorin \u201dOlder Male\u201d. Steve Asmussen sj\u00e4lv hade ett fantastiskt \u00e5r och drog in \u00f6ver 27 miljoner dollar. Mycket talar f\u00f6r att han blir \u00e5rets tr\u00e4nare.<br \/>\nExtra roligt ur ett svenskt perspektiv \u00e4r att Inez Karlsson \u00e4r en av de tre finalisterna till titeln \u201d\u00c5rets l\u00e4rling\u201d. Om hennes insatser under fjol\u00e5ret kan matcha Pascacio Lopez och Aberl Mariano v\u00e5gar jag inte sia om. Men visst hade det varit fantastiskt roligt om Inez tog hem titeln. Bland jockeyerna l\u00e4r det bli en tuff fight mellan Garrett Gomez och Robby Albarado.<br \/>\nBig Brown \u00e4r v\u00e4l sj\u00e4lvskriven i kategorin \u201d3-year-old male\u201d. Colonel John och Raven\u2019s Pass n\u00e5r inte riktigt upp i samma niv\u00e5er.<br \/>\nMan f\u00e4ller n\u00e4stan en liten t\u00e5r n\u00e4r namnet Eight Belles dyker upp i kategorin \u201d3-year-old filly.\u201d Trots hennes tragiska \u00f6de s\u00e5 var hon definitivt ett av 2008 \u00e5rs b\u00e4sta tre\u00e5riga ston i USA. Men sj\u00e4lv h\u00e5ller jag tummarna f\u00f6r Proud Spell, kanske det tuffaste stoet jag sett p\u00e5 en galoppbana under fjol\u00e5ret.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drf.com\/eclipse\/2008\/finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\">Samtliga finalister hittar du p\u00e5 Daily Racing Form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Den 26 januari h\u00e5lls den stora Eclipse Award-galan p\u00e5 Hotell Fontainebleau, Miami Beach. P\u00e5 torsdagen presenterades tre finalister i 16 olika kategorier \u2013 elva f\u00f6r fyrbenta och fem f\u00f6r tv\u00e5benta akt\u00f6rer. I den tyngsta titeln av dem alla, \u201dHorse of the Year\u201d, finns dock inga nomineringar\/finalister. Men den m\u00e5ste v\u00e4l g\u00e5 till Curlin!? Den Steve &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/?p=1053\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201dEclipse Award 2008\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[30,17],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse","category-internationellt","tag-jockeys","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.galoppbilder.se\/blogg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}