{"id":9951,"date":"2013-11-20T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/champion-mare-royal-delta-retired-from-racing\/"},"modified":"2013-11-20T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T13:06:00","slug":"champion-mare-royal-delta-retired-from-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/champion-mare-royal-delta-retired-from-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion mare Royal Delta retired from racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ocala, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Two-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta has been retired from racing to begin her career as a broodmare. The 5-year-old is owned by Besilu Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Delta, trained by Bill Mott, was a two-time winner of the Breeders&#8217; Cup Ladies&#8217; Classic, now known as the Distaff. After winning the 2011 race she was voted that year&#8217;s champion 3-year-old filly and the following year won the Eclipse Award as champion Older Female.<\/p>\n<p>The mare finished her career in this month&#8217;s Distaff, but finished fourth behind Beholder.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Delta was a two-time champion of the Delaware Handicap along with wins in the Alabama, Black-Eyed Susan, Fleur de Lis, Beldame and Personal Ensign.<\/p>\n<p>In her career, Royal Delta earned more than $4.8 million with 12 wins in 22 starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocala, FL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Two-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta has been retired from racing to begin her career as a broodmare. The 5-year-old is owned by Besilu Farm. Royal Delta, trained by Bill Mott, was a two-time winner of the Breeders&#8217; Cup Ladies&#8217; Classic, now known as the Distaff. After winning the 2011 race [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}