Belle Couture, the three-year-old half-sister to the unbeaten Black Caviar, had her first taste of competition with a jumpout at Flemington on Friday morning.
Racing Victoria (RV) today welcomed the start of racing’s newest event, the lucrative G1 Championship, at the stables of emerging star Callanish who begins his G1 assault in tomorrow’s opening leg, the Group 1 Sportingbet C.F. Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
SHE might be many lengths inferior to superstar Black Caviar, but fellow Australian mare Ortensia is already attracting plenty of support as she prepares for a second international win in Tuesday's group 1 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot.
The world's fastest racehorse, Black Caviar, proved she had lost none of her brilliance over her summer break when a breathtaking winner of an 800-metre trial at Caulfield this morning.