Date posted January 23, 2010 | Posted by Michele Cullen | Filed under
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- Black Caviar made her much anticipated return to racing tonight in
the $200,000
Group 2 Essendon Mazda Australia Stakes (registered name Stanley Wooton Stakes) over 1200m at Moonee Valley.
And until tonight no three-year-old filly had been victorious in the weight-for-age sprint and the brown daughter of Bel Esprit changed that and kept her perfect record in tact making it win number five.
Black Caviar is trained at Caulfield by Peter Moody for a large syndicate of owners’ and the ease of her victory against her older rivals this evening could be the beginning of a campaign that may take the team to Dubai for a crack at the US$2.5 million Golden Shaheen in March.
Black Caviar
Ridden by Luke Nolen, Black Caviar got away well from the barriers and travelled kindly on the bridle behind Here De Angels (Dehere – Angelic Belle by Kenmare). When the pressure came on Nolen slipped her a little rein and she raced clear to go on and record the historic win by 2-1/4 lengths with La Rocket (Rock of Gibraltar – La Bella Dama by Desert Sun) 1-1/4 lengths away third.
“I’m very happy. It’s always a big relief to see them return and we thought she was going terrific but until you get them back on track you aren’t 100 per cent sure,” Moody said.
“He’s a group two animal the second horse (Here De Angels). He’s a good, tough, old handicapper and just knowing how much improvement she’s got in her and coming back off that injury… I just wanted to see her come back.
“The exciting thing is the level of improvement in her.”
Black Caviar has filled out into her frame and strengthened up. Her physique is one that Arnie Schwarzenegger would be proud of.
Black Caviar had her spring campaign cut short when she was tore a muscle in the chest when jumping awkwardly in the Group 2 Danehill Stakes (1200m), and still win, at Flemington in September last year.
Moody has worked hard on her barrier technique and tonight with a barrier blanket on for the first time she jumped away beautifully.
Moody said the Golden Shaheen will come under consideration but not until Black Caviar contests her first Group One race back at Moonee Valley in the William Reid Stakes (1200m) on February 13.
Bel Esprit is enjoying a good run of success with Silver Bullion and Beltrois collecting stakes events at the last two Saturday meetings in Victoria.
A son of Royal Academy, Bel Esprit was a tough racehorse having raced exclusively in stakes events during his 19 start career, where he won eight of them including the Group I Blue Diamond Stakes and the Doomben 10000.
Black Caviar was a $210,000 yearling purchase out of the 2008 William Inglis Melbourne Premier yearling sale from the draft of Swettenham Stud as agent by Moody and is from a family that just keeps on getting better.
Her dam, Helsinge, a daughter of Desert Sun, is half-sister to Flying Spur’s sprint star Magnus – winner of the Group I AJC The Galaxy and the Group 2 VRC Linlithgow Stakes, and stands alongside Bel Esprit at Eliza Park Stud in Victoria in his new career, and to Wilander (by Exceed and Excel), winner of the Group 2 Schillaci Stakes. Black Caviar’s grandam is the very fast daughter of Snippet’s, Scandinavia.
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