UNBEATEN superstar Black Caviar will face nine rivals in her South Australian debut on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd at Morphettville. The prospect of taking on the world's best sprinter at level weights in the group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes looms as a mission impossible as Black Caviar chases an Australian record 20th consecutive win. Not even group 1 winner Lone Rock is given a chance of defeating Black Caviar and is quoted widely at $17 as second favourite for the race. Black Caviar o
UNBEATEN superstar Black Caviar will face nine rivals in her South Australian debut on Saturday in front of a sell-out crowd at Morphettville. The prospect of taking on the world's best sprinter at level weights in the group 1 Robert Sangster Stakes looms as a mission impossible as Black Caviar chases an Australian record 20th consecutive win. Not even group 1 winner Lone Rock is given a chance of defeating Black Caviar and is quoted widely at $17 as second favourite for the race.
Black Caviar opened at $1.04 with corporate bookmakers across the country yesterday, with Centrebet's Neil Evans expecting punters to take the short odds in anticipation of another memorable victory.
''It is the shortest that we have opened her but the punters will still come to back her at the price,'' said Evans. ''When you look at it, $1.04 is a fair price, her record is incomparable to her rivals and the big punters will want to take advantage of that fact. The only way that she could possibly be beaten is if she spends three days in the Barossa on the grog before Saturday.''
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