Black Caviar 22/08/09

Caviar at the Valley
There was only one place to be on Saturday and that was Moonee Valley where Black Caviar was having her first run after at spell, in the Listed Arrow Training Services Stakes over 1200m.
Upon arriving three quarters of an hour before this Bel Esprit filly was to run in the first of the day, I went straight to stall fifty eight only to find she must have been elsewhere on the course doing things that horses do before they run.
Out of a large group of happy people in front of the stall came a guy, Colin Madden who introduced himself and turned out to be a part owner of Black Caviar.
He is an Essendon supporter from way back and remembers well the Eighties when Sheeds and the boys gave him his greatest pleasures from football. Next he introduced me to other owners, Gary and Kerrin Wilkie (pic.1) and then his Wife, Jannene (pic.2 Jannene and Colin). Jannene introduced me to her sister, Pam (pic. 3 Jannene and Pam) and then I met Pam’s daughter Allison Saville (pic.4 Allison and Pam) Allison owns a couple of mares that she is thinking of sending to Bel Esprit. It is easy to forget and I nearly forgot another guy Neil Werrett (pic.5) , manager of Werrett Bloodstock P/L.
Now it gets more interesting for the leaders in the Bel Esprit Owners Premiership, Sheeds and Simon W-W with ten wins each. Both Neil and Colin have an interest in another Bel, Bel Mer so they have after today’s win, seven wins, 1/G1 and five Listed races. WOW
All these photos were taken before they had their winning smiles.

Black Caviar Remains Unbeaten
Mark Smith - Saturday, 22 August 2009
Rising star Black Caviar (Bel Esprit x Helsinge by Desert Sun) kept her record at a perfect three for three when barely breaking a sweat in Saturday’s Listed Arrow Training Services Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley.
After sitting outside the pacesetting Noesis, Luke Nolan let the reigns out a notch before the home turn on the long odd-on favourite and she bounded away to win by 3 ¾-lengths from Miraculous Miss (Exceed And Excel) with a half-head back to Orbiting Belle (Spinning World) in third place.
Nolan was having his first ride on the Peter Moody-trained filly as apprentice Jarrad Noske had been on at her two previous starts.
“It's a good thing to be on her and not competing against her," Nolan said
“She’s still a work in progress but it was an awesome effort.”
While Moody makes no secret he holds the daughter of Bel Esprit in the highest regard he is taking a wait and see approach before committing to her next start.
"That was painless, she's got a lot of raw talent," Moody said.
"In terms of raw ability I've only been involved with probably one similar and that was General Nediym.
“We brought her here to have a look at the track and she performed like I expected she would.”
The Group I Manikato Stakes at the same track on September 25 is the expected goal this for Black Caviar this spring.
A 5-length winner at Flemington when on debut in April, Black Caviar followed that up with a hollow 6-length win in the Listed Bayside Chrysler Stakes at Caulfield in May.
A $210,000 purchase by Moody from the Swettenham Stud consignment at the 2008 Inglis Premier Yearling sale, Black Caviar (pictured as a yearling) is the first foal of the unraced Desert Sun mare Helsinge a half-sister to Group 1 winner Magnus and Group 2 winner Wilander.
Winner of the AJC The Galaxy (G1), Magnus stands alongside Bel Esprit at Eliza Park Stud.
Helsinge is a daughter of star mare Scandinavia (Snippets), winner of the Group 2 BTC Cup and placed in the Goodwood H. (G1), VRC Salinger Stakes (G1), VRC Lightning Stakes (G1), and Newmarket H. (G1).
Helsinge has a 2yo full brother to Black Caviar named Moshe and was covered by Casino Prince last year after missing to Churchill Downs in 2007.
Bel Esprit (pictured) (Royal Academy) has had his service fee reduced to $16,500 in 2009. The sire of five stakes-winners including the Group 1 winner Bel Mer, Bel Esprit covered 110 mares last year at a fee of $33,000 while he served a massive 266 mares in 2007 at a fee of $20,000.
Black Caviar serves up a Valley treat
Saturday, 22 August 2009: Exciting filly Black Caviar had her trainer Peter Moody comparing her to former outstanding sprinter General Nediym after she strolled home to win the Arrow Training Services Plate at Moonee Valley.
In his days working as stable foreman in Queensland for former trainer Bill Mitchell, Moody looked after General Nediym who won 13 of his 21 starts."In terms of raw ability I've only been involved with probably one similar and that was General Nediym when I worked for Bill Mitchell," Moody said.
During his three-year-old season the colt won the VRC feature sprint double in 1998, the Lightning Stakes (1000m) and Newmarket Hcp (1200m) at Flemington.Black Caviar has a long way to go to emulate the feats of General Nediym, says Moody, but he was delighted with her effort in maintaining her unbeaten record in three starts which have yielded two Listed race wins.
Sent out the prohibitive $1.20 favourite, the daughter of Bel Esprit sat outside the leader Noesis and cruised past her on the home turn, clearing out to win as she liked by 3-3/4 lengths from Miraculous Miss ($31) with Orbiting Belle ($17) a half-head away third.
"That was painless, she won with her ears pricked. She's got a lot of raw talent," Moody said."The pleasing thing was that she went to sleep outside the leader, you worry that these brilliant type of horses might become one-dimensional."But I think the way she put her head on her chest and relaxed, you could have sat last on her."When they do it easy and she looks to relax, it looks a bit of a game with that type of horse, you always worry the day something does loom up beside you if they go any faster."But I've been fortunate enough at home. I haven't had one fast enough to test her there and I'll have to wait a while for it to happen on the racetrack."
Moody said there were a lot of options for the filly, but one definite aim is the Group One Manikato Stakes (1200m) at the Valley night meeting on AFL grand final eve on September 25.
The Caulfield trainer has to decide whether to run her in the Group Two Danehill Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on September 5 or go into the Manikato without another start."I would dare to say the A-grade fillies went around last Saturday (in the Quezette Stakes won by Corsaire at Caulfield) so I think she still has a fair few steps to take before we get excited," Moody said."But all she can do is win and she's doing a hell of a good job of that at the moment."
Stable jockey Luke Nolen, who was riding Black Caviar for the first time in a race, was quite excited with the filly."We got halfway through the second (gear) but she still had a look at the post and she was a bit unsure where she was going," Nolen said."If she knew where she was going she might have opened up even further."It's a good thing to be on her and not competing against her."