IT TOOK 33 bids, but Nathan Tinkler won the battle for Black Caviar's half-brother with an offer of $1.025 million at the Inglis sale at Newmarket in Sydney yesterday, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.He adds: A short distance from Randwick, where Black Caviar is poised to stretch her unbeaten record to 12 wins on Saturday, the colt was bought by the Hawkes Racing team, headed by Hall of Fame trainer John Hawkes. While Hawkes was keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the own

IT TOOK 33 bids, but Nathan Tinkler won the battle for Black Caviar's half-brother with an offer of $1.025 million at the Inglis sale at Newmarket in Sydney yesterday, reports Craig Young in the Sydney Morning Herald.

He adds: A short distance from Randwick, where Black Caviar is poised to stretch her unbeaten record to 12 wins on Saturday, the colt was bought by the Hawkes Racing team, headed by Hall of Fame trainer John Hawkes. While Hawkes was keeping tight-lipped about the identity of the owner, losing bidder Richard Werrett, the man who put the Black Caviar team together, said: ''Nathan Tinkler has a lot more money than we have and he wasn't going to stop.'' The colt is by Tinkler's group 1-winning stallion Casino Prince out of Black Caviar's mum Helsinge.