BLACK Caviar is not really just a horse. She can't be. She is superwoman, the saviour of racing, an equine for the ages, reports Michael Lynch in The Age (www.theage.com.au).Lynch says: The big brown mare is a more-than-worthy world champion, the kind of galloper who comes along not just once in a decade or a generation, but once in a lifetime. Peter Moody's titleholder doesn't just win races, she destroys her opposition with such contemptuous ease that it looks as if she just joined in, fresh,
BLACK Caviar is not really just a horse. She can't be. She is superwoman, the saviour of racing, an equine for the ages, reports Michael Lynch in The Age (www.theage.com.au).
Lynch says: The big brown mare is a more-than-worthy world champion, the kind of galloper who comes along not just once in a decade or a generation, but once in a lifetime. Peter Moody's titleholder doesn't just win races, she destroys her opposition with such contemptuous ease that it looks as if she just joined in, fresh, for the last couple of hundred metres of the contest while her rivals have been toiling away down the Flemington straight.
That was certainly the case yesterday as she won, eased down, the 1000-metre Lightning Stakes, a group 1 contest sanctioned by history with a roll call of winners boasting the names of this country's quickest - and best - horses. The thousand metres is a specialist's test, especially down the straight where a leader is confronted by the vast open vista, a seemingly limitless horizon that can play mental tricks on both horse and jockey.
Some horses barely get warm over the minimum trip, getting going only when the race is all over. Even the superstars who scorch along can rarely build sufficient momentum, especially in a group 1 race, to space their opposition. Not Black Caviar. She is no ordinary superstar constrained by the usual rules, as she displayed again yesterday.