Peter Moody’s best trained in twenty-four months, Black Caviar, makes her Royal Ascot debut in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes
As exciting is the Queen’s procession throughout the Royal Ascot meeting, the magnitude of Black Caviar closing in on the six furlongs on Saturday, 23rd June in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (British Champions Series & Global Sprint Challenge), is nothing less in comparison.
The closing day of the meeting is as auspicious as was the kick off day.
Frankel was the curtain raiser and, Black Caviar, will close the meeting shut by claiming the £283,550 prize money. She has to compete against fourteen other, three-year and older best at racing from Britain and France.
Bel Esprit’s six-year-old brown mare is on the brink of adding the twenty-second success in her impeccable unbeaten record. The only but the most intriguing difference today is that the Helsinge foal will race beyond the Australian borders.
The Peter Moody trained is backed up with 1 to 4 odds, and has been allotted the fifteenth stall to break from. The ground conditions are soft due to the rain, but that does not seem to concern the connections the least bit.
It was eighty-years ago that an Australian raced off shores, and amazed the crowds. The legend was none other than Phar Lap.
One of the most interesting factors of the race today is that thousands of Australian fans, who have flown in and will be joined by UK enthusiasts, making it one h**l of a throbbing crowd.
The Ascot is expecting a crowd of 80, 000 on the final day. The millions, who will be watching history repeat itself on the television screens, cannot be neglected.
Winning the race today will take her Group Ones count go up to twelve.
The preparation for winning the race actually started when Black Caviar took her flight in a lycra designed suit that was to help her blood flow on the thirty-hour journey.
The mare proved herself further by taking up the challenge, and battling the northern hemisphere conditions.
The final preparation included a gallop on Thursday morning at Newmarket. Luke Nolen’s second nature can be easily recognized as that of the mare that he rides regularly, from the tantrums in the gate to the final stride through the wire.
Even though there is too much confidence in the air about the abilities of the Australian celebrity, she will need to look out for Krypton Factor, Moonlight Cloud, and Society Rock, who is defending his title today.
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