Black Caviar

George William Smith · Postby **George William Smith** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:35 pm

Tomorrows big Derby Trail preps will seem really mellow to me since I have been following the greatest race horse in the world from Oct to April this year, Black Caviar. She's the best sprinter I have ever....EVER....seen. She's now 12/12 and ranked as the top horse in the world before tonight when she again won easily in the fastest time {and the track was rated dead} at Randwick.

I put up some screen shots of her in the paddock and rallying to win and some comments on my web site:
http://www.members.shaw.ca/thematchmaker

kimberley mine · Postby **kimberley mine** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:03 pm

Final time was 1:08, for 6f on a dead/yielding turf track.

The mare dawdled with two ahead of her (Hay List by 5 and Crystal Lily by 3) until the 300m mark, at which point the jockey asked her to run, and she put away Hay List by 3 lengths by the 150m mark.

She will be running in the Sydney Autumn Carnival and then perhaps going up to Brisbane for the winter, then having a spell and heading to Hong Kong in December.

Hay List is an extremely good galloper himself, and I rather hope he will come to North America. He's a gelding, so no stud value, and in his current form would clean up all the turf sprints and should fire on synthetics as well.

wilf · Postby **wilf** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:21 am

I was wondering when someone would finally wake up America to this amazing filly. What a machine she is and looks like she is going slow until you see all the others under pressure because she is in fact going like a rocket. She won the Gr1 Newmarket Hcp in the fastest ever time in it's history .....152 years I think and was just cantering. She is in the hands of a very successful down to earth trainer ,Peter Moody and it was fitting that she won yesterday for the first time going right-handed in the TJ Smith Stakes,named after the legend trainer from down under who Moody actually spent 3 years with. I had to laugh when the rider of the second horse Hay List who is a fine sprinter indeed said that he heard her coming then he saw her going!

Bast · Postby **Bast** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:23 am

She looks splendidly fit in the photos I've seen.

kimberley mine · Postby **kimberley mine** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 2:01 pm

Bast wrote:She looks splendidly fit in the photos I've seen.

She's a great example of pretty is as pretty does. She is NOT an attractive mare, not like So You Think who is a knockout, with a coarse head and coarse body, and none of that matters in the winners circle.

Mortal lock for Aussie Horse of the Year.

George William Smith · Postby **George William Smith** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:41 pm

and a good bet for Horse of the Year if she keeps to do what she has been doing. I loved what her jockey said three starts ago when asked what he thought of her. "No jockey could lose on this horse. Her travelling speed is so fast that should she get in trouble, very few could do it to her and then she has an incredible turn of foot to put away the field."

Twenty five plus minutes before the fans would let her go back to the stable, while they listened to speeches no less. LOL