Black Caviar 18/08/09

CAVIAR ON MENU AT MOONEE VALLEY
Monday, 17 August 2009: Peter Moody gets another of his top spring team into gear at Moonee Valley on Saturday with exciting filly Black Caviar.The filly, unbeaten in two career starts at Flemington on debut and Caulfield more recently, could have run in last Saturday's Quezette Stakes but was instead saved for this weekend's Arrow Training Services Plate.
Moody said the Valley run was the ideal time to try the filly on the tight turning track, with races such as the Champagne Stakes or even Manikato Stakes possibilities down the track.
Further into the spring Black Caviar is being aimed at the Group 1 Thousand Guineas, Moody confident the Bel Esprit three-year-old will handle the journey.Moody was meanwhile happy with the returns of both Headway and Typhoon Tracy at Caulfield last weekend.

Nissan Stakes to be reduced by O'Brien
By Mark Ryan
Melbourne
Monday 17 August 2009, 5:19pm

Danny O'Brien has 11 of the 18 nominations for Saturday's Nissan Stakes at Moonee Valley but expects only two or three of them to actually start in the race including the promising Cabeza.
O'Brien said he would finalise which other one or two take their place in the Listed 1200m event for colts and geldings after six of them gallop at the Valley in the morning.
He said some of the squad, of which seven were unraced, would be entered for the Seymour meeting on Sunday.
"You need to kick them off somewhere," O'Brien said.
"Cabeza will run and one or two others.
O'Brien has already decided not to run last-start easy Sale three-year-old fillies maiden winner Nun Faster, his sole entry in Saturday's Arrow Training Services Plate (1200m).
"I don't want her to be chasing Black Caviar. I think Black Caviar is the best horse in Melbourne," he said.
The Peter Moody-trained Black Caviar has won at her two starts by an aggregate of 11 lengths and is headed towards a start in the Group One weight-for-age Manikato Stakes (1200m) at the Valley on September 25.
The Bel Esprit filly is resuming having last raced when she defeated Demerit by six lengths in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on May 2.