Black Caviar runs into history

8 Oct 2011, 4:00 pm   -   Source: AAP
Black Caviar with Trainer Peter Moody. (Getty)

Black Caviar with Trainer Peter Moody. (Getty)

The fastest and most exhilarating racehorse in Australia, and one of the best in the world, Black Caviar claims her 14th win and equals Phar Lap.

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She's done what Phar Lap did.  

Now Black Caviar has only herself to be compared with.
  
The fastest and most exhilarating racehorse in Australia, and definitely one of the best in the world, Black Caviar displayed total authority at Caulfield on Saturday, claiming her 14th win from as many starts.
  
The sequence equalled the one Phar Lap put together in 1930 when his 14 successive wins included the Melbourne Cup and three other
races in the same week.
  
But unlike Black Caviar, he'd been beaten before he put together his string of wins.
  
That possibility seems out of the question for the Melbourne mare.
  
Black Caviar won the Group Two Schillaci Stakes (1000m) by 4-1/4 lengths, and did it with such style her rivals weren't even offended.
  
"I'm just very, very proud to have run second to her," Neville Layt, the trainer of runner-up Karuta Queen, said.
  
"I didn't think we had a hope in the world of beating her, but I didn't think she'd go past us so soon - or so fast."
  
Black Caviar picked up the flying Kurata Queen, perhaps the fastest horse over 800m in Australia, without being asked.
  
She ambled to the front before the home turn and 220m out jockey Luke Nolen made his only move in the race.
  
Nolen flapped his elbows once, the giant mare underneath him lengthened her stride and the 14th victory was captured with absolute ease.
  
"She just cantered to the front," Nolen said.
  
"I gave her a shake up and that was all I needed to do."
  
For trainer Peter Moody, all thought was for his horse.
  
"You always fear that something can go wrong," Moody said.
  
"That's the only way they'll beat her.
  
"It can be a pain in the arse, but I'd rather it was my pain than someone else's."
  
And for everyone who came to Caulfield only to see her run, the race was over before the turn when they all stood to applaud.
  
"I love that, seeing the crowd enjoy her," Moody said.
  
"That's just fantastic."
  
It is possible that no-one at Caulfield on Saturday saw Phar Lap race, and if they did, they probably don't remember it.
  
But they all saw a horse who may well go down as the next best thing to Big Red.

Black Caviar

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