Beating Zenyatta’s record becomes the next target for Black Caviar, who is heading for the Dubai World Cup on 31st March at Meydan
The unbeaten six-year-old Australian mare of Bel Esprit out of Helsinge, Black Caviar is owned by Werrett Bloodstock and is trained by Peter G. Moody. Keeping up with her last two years’ trend, Black Caviar yet again settled into her new season by
posting a victory. She won the Grade 2, Australia Stakes on 27thJanuary at Moonee Valley, raced over six furlongs.
Black Caviar right now is seventeen for seventeen, and will be soon setting out for achieving her eighteenth victory, and two more in a row would set the records straight with Zenyatta. The trainer wishes his mare to accomplish that milestone, hence
Moody has laid out a plan that would soon take Black Caviar on the track where she will deliver her twentieth performance.
The Royal Ascot this summer remains to be on the priority list for Black Caviar, but before running that, the connections have planned for the Grade 1, $2 million Dubai Golden Shaheen which is being seriously considered as her next stepping stone.
However, before getting saddled for the Grade 1, Dubai Golden Shaheen, Black Caviar is to race in the Grade 1, C F Orr on 11th February at Caulfield which will be raced over seven furlongs, and then on 25th February,
she is scheduled for the Grade 1, Futurity Stakes on the same track and over the same distance.
Adding these two races to her right now straight record of seventeen for seventeen, the Grade 1, Dubai Golden Shaheen will be the twentieth time that Black Caviar would race.
"The Dubai trip was probably a ten per cent chance but now I'd say it's 50-50. If she went to Dubai, it would certainly break up her trip to England. There is ten weeks in between the two races, so that presents a few problems, but I am familiar with
the logistics of it all and it's an option we are thinking about,” said the trainer.
Even if Black Caviar misses on the trip to Dubai, she still has options at home, but they are not as lucrative as the $600,000 prize money being offered across boundaries.
Werrett said: "Dubai is now highest on the priority list as long as she comes through her next two runs well."
The trainer already has in mind a target that has to be achieved, and a record that has to be reset as far as Zenyatta is concerned, but how far the six-year-old mare be able to stretch the winning streak would surface after the outcome of the races
that she is scheduled for.
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