Black Caviar 4/05/09

Black Caviar just part of Peter Moody's smorgasbord
Matt Stewart
May 04, 2009 12:00am
PETER Moody is sitting on a gold mine, and he's nervous about it.
Moody's two-year-old filly Black Caviar won so impressively at Caulfield on Saturday that many wondered if she was the most gifted two-year-old in the land.
Black Caviar simply waltzed in after missing the start. She smashed 1min 10sec for the 1200m and could have run quicker.
Asked yesterday if Black Caviar could be Australia's best two-year-old, Moody responded that he was not even sure if she was the best in his stable.
"We've got four or five of them that are equally exciting to us," he said.
Moody has an incredible squad of potential superstars.
Most are in the paddock, resting before being launched at the spring -- the carnival of such frustration for Moody for the past two years. He has never had a squad like it.
"I've just got to make sure I don't stuff it up," he said.
"Seriously, though, the sky's the limit."
Moody won the Blue Diamond Stakes and all but won the Golden Slipper Stakes with Headway, who ran second to Phelan Ready.
Avenue would have been set for the Slipper had she not had a slight setback after a slashing debut win at Moonee Valley in February.
And Moody has surely the best three-year-old in the land in the unbeaten Typhoon Tracy, who flogged the best fillies and mares in the Coolmore Classic in March.
"The task for me and (stable manager) Jeff O'Connor is to sit down and map out programs for these horses -- and hopefully keep them apart if possible," he said. "It'd be a bit disappointing if at least one of them didn't go on and be an exciting three-year-old."
Moody said he could not rank any of his two-year-olds above the others. "Other than Headway and Reward For Effort, who clashed in the Slipper, none of them have gone head-to-head on the track," Moody said.
"Luke Nolen came back shaking his head after Black Caviar's gallop on Tuesday, saying he'd never experiences anything like it. But he's done the same with Headway, Avenue and Reward For Effort.
"Maybe I should start counting how many times he shakes his head to get some idea."
Moody said it was possible Black Caviar may have been flattered by lack of opposition at Caulfield on Saturday.
"But she was up 6kg, ran the time. You had to be impressed," he said.
"I was like a lot of other people - I just wanted to have another look at her following her Flemington (debut) win, to see if she could do it again. She did."
Moody said the Thousand Guineas in October would be among Black Caviar's spring goals.
He said she would be sent immediately to the paddoc