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Black Caviar impressing owners with looks while resting

28th Aug 2012

The Daily Telegraph - Monday, 27 August 2012

THE odds of champion mare Black Caviar continuing her racing career have shortened after one of her owners gave the sprinter a glowing report.

Part-owner David Taylor, speaking at the Victorian Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association awards ceremony, said Black Caviar was continuing to improve in condition as she rests following her successful UK campaign.

Peter Moody's mare won her 22nd race in succession when she held off Moonlight Cloud in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Ascot in June, but was later found to have suffered muscle damage.

Connections have since considered retiring the mare and sending her to the breeding barn.

"She's resting, she's recovering really well and as a matter of fact, we are pretty excited by the way she is looking at the moment," Taylor said.

Taylor said Black Caviar's owners and trainer Peter Moody had not decided whether the daughter of Bel Esprit would reappear on a racetrack in 2013 but connections were optimistic the six-year-old would have another preparation in the autumn.

"She will be off up north for a month or so on a water walker and Peter will bring her back and she will go into training I would suggest and then we'll make a decision then," Taylor said.

"We are all keen to see her back on the track. The decision hasn't been made but I would say, if you were a betting man, we will see her on the track again.

"You don't race for long but you can have foals for many years."