TRAINER Peter Moody soaked his stable rider Luke Nolen in champagne as part of a dual celebration at Caulfield yesterday, reports the Sunday Age. It says: For not only did the trainer-jockey combination confirm their third consecutive premiership at the meeting, they also joined for their 600th winner together after both enjoyed winning trebles. Moody said he could not help but open the champagne for Caulfield's leading rider for the season, and then spray him after the final event. ''It's not e
TRAINER Peter Moody soaked his stable rider Luke Nolen in champagne as part of a dual celebration at Caulfield yesterday, reports the Sunday Age.
It says: For not only did the trainer-jockey combination confirm their third consecutive premiership at the meeting, they also joined for their 600th winner together after both enjoyed winning trebles.
Moody said he could not help but open the champagne for Caulfield's leading rider for the season, and then spray him after the final event.
''It's not every day you get 600 winners,'' the trainer of Black Caviar said. ''It's capped off an incredible year for us both.'
Nolen finally shook off the challenge from Craig Newitt for the jockeys' title with his three winners, which opened up an unassailable five-win break over his rival coming into the final meeting for the season at Sandown today. His three winners yesterday - Planet Voyage, Ready To Rip and Club Command - were all for the state's leading trainer, who also notched his third consecutive Melbourne trainers' premiership. Moody has 90 Melbourne winners - 40 more than his nearest rival, Mick Price.
Nolen first rode for Moody when the trainer famously mistook the rider for his brother Shaun at Sale in May, 2003.