VICTORIA'S premier trainer, Peter Moody, has plenty to look forward to in the new year with the world's champion sprinter Black Caviar, but he could also be a force in distance feature races after notable city wins for three of his emerging staying mares over the Christmas period, reports The Age. It says: Yesterday at Caulfield, on the day when Moody welcomed Black Caviar back into his Caulfield stables after her summer break, the trainer prepared three winners, but it was the Zabeel mare Zooma
VICTORIA'S premier trainer, Peter Moody, has plenty to look forward to in the new year with the world's champion sprinter Black Caviar, but he could also be a force in distance feature races after notable city wins for three of his emerging staying mares over the Christmas period, reports The Age.
It says: Yesterday at Caulfield, on the day when Moody welcomed Black Caviar back into his Caulfield stables after her summer break, the trainer prepared three winners, but it was the Zabeel mare Zoomania who impressed, especially after her five-length romp over 2000 metres.
Just as he had done two days earlier at Sandown when he trained a winning double with fellow staying-bred four-year-old mares Grenada Road and Power O'Raylee, Moody predicted Zoomania too had the scope to make it to the elite distance races.
''She's shown us all along that she will come into her own as she gets over ground and she did that pretty well today,'' he said. ''She and those other two mares that won the other day are all well-bred staying mares on the way through and I'd like to think they are all going places. There is still improvement to come from all of them and while they will certainly need to improve again to get to black-type races, I'm thrilled with the way they are going.'' (www.theage.com.au)