Black Caviar Resting While Future Decided

Michael Manly reports that Peter Moody has indicated that the option of Black Caviar having a long spell and returning next year to race is in the mix for the unbeaten winner of 22 races.

Previously the options which had been mentioned had been either retirement or a short spell and a return for the end of the Melbourne spring.

“Her owners are still overseas and we’ll wait until they get back and have a good talk about her future, which should be in mid-August,” he said. “She can go to the breeding barn or we prepare her for spring. If that’s the case she would have to come back into work straight after the decision is made to get her ready. The other option is to give her an extended break and bring her later on,” if she was to be retired Black Caviar would be ready for the upcoming 2012 breeding season.

If not she will most likely comeback and be set for the Patinack Classic at Flemington with possible lead-in races either the Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield or the Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley.

Moody will put Black Caviar under the microscope for the next two weeks before a decision is made on her future.

“She needs a couple of weeks off to have a stretch and then we’ll map out her future. In the meantime I’ll have a good look at her,” Moody said.

Moody said he had been to see her a couple of times at Werribee and said although she looked a bit jaded she looked better than when she was at Ascot.

Black Caviar left quarantine at Werribee yesterday morning and headed to Moody’s stables at Caulfield for a short visit.

Stable foreman Tony Haydon who has been Black Caviar’s travelling companion for the past six weeks said she was going to Moody’s stables and then for a spell.

Haydon said Black Caviar would be happy to get out and get into a paddock. “She’s ready to cut loose in a paddock,” he said.

Also at Werribee with Black Caviar were two well credentialled Italian gallopers now with Moody in Voila Ici and Sneak A Peak who are being set for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

Information source courtesy of www.heraldsun.com.au