7th Jan 2011
ANZ Bloodstock News - Brad Waters - Friday, 7 January 2011
It seems champion Melbourne trainer Peter Moody’s biggest problem is how to keep is plethora of high-class horses apart in races during the upcoming Autumn Carnival, writes Brad Waters.
The allconquering stable boasts the unbeaten superstar Black Caviar (Bel Esprit), the seven-time Group 1 winner Typhoon Tracy (Red Ransom) as well as the Caulfi eld Guineas (Gr 1, 1600m) winner Anacheeva (Anabaa).
Moody has sprinting options aplenty, horses capable of winning at weight-for-age, adaptable three-year-olds as well as a terrific batch of youngsters headed by the unbeaten duo Golden Archer (Rock of Gibraltar) and one last Dance (Encosta de lago).
Moody has decided to start glamour mare Typhoon Tracy’s autumn preparation in the Australia stakes (Gr 2, 1200m) at her first run over the short trip in almost two years.
“I thought she might just need the run at 1200 to sharpen her up before she heads into the orr and the Futurity, the two races she won last year in the autumn,” Moody told radio station sport 927. “she seems to be going super. she looks well and I’m very pleased with her condition. We wouldn’t race for the sake of racing her, so if you see her going to the races, I’m of the belief she is there 110 per-cent.”
Black Caviar is set to return to the Moody camp on Monday after fi ve weeks spelling and pre-training at Murchison in Victoria to give the top trainer plenty of headaches ahead of resuming in next month’s lightning stakes (G 1, 1000m) at Flemington.
“The scary thing with her is she is typical of a big kid that doesn’t know her own strength,” Moody said. “she is so strong and powerful and she does everything at a million miles an hour. You are just terrifi ed she’s not going to come back in one piece every time you send her out to do her work.
“When you ask her for an effort, there are no half-hearted efforts. She just does it very quickly and very sharply and due to her size and her bulk she is susceptible to injury.”
Connections of Hinchinbrook (Fastnet rock) decided to switch the colt from the Gerald ryan stable to Moody’s barn to compete inthe big autumn sprints in Melbourne but the son of Fastnet rock will play second fi ddle to Black Caviar.
“He’s a cracking individual,” Moody said. “He’s been sent down for the autumn sprints which is probably a little bit daunting with his stablemate being Black Caviar but he is a super-impressive colt who has just started to roll along a bit in his work.”
Caulfi eld Guineas winner Anacheeva is further forward than illustrious stablemates, having had a jump out on Tuesday at Caulfi eld as he steps up his preparation ahead of his first-up run in the Zeditave stakes (listed, 1100m) on January 26.
Moody is aiming Anacheeva, who went through the spring unbeaten, for the big three-year-old duo of the Australian Guineas and randwick Guineas (both Gr 1, 1600m) in a bid to increase the colt’s already imposing stud value.
“A Group 1 winning colt over a mile is worth a lot of money,” Moody said. “I think the Australian Guineas and the Randwick Guineas are his two target races this time around.”
Moody has two-year-olds Golden Archer and One Last Dance waiting in the wings to resume their chase for the Blue Diamond Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) when the pair returns to the track in the Blue Diamond Previews (listed, 1000m) on Australia Day.
Add quality performers such as Avenue (Anabaa), Curtana (Exceed And Excel), Doubtful Jack (Not A single Doubt), Reward For Effort (Exceed And Excel), Set For Fame (Reset) and Willow Creek (Tale of The Cat) to Moody’s line-up and the Caulfield stable looks mighty hard to stop if its luck holds out in the autumn.
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