TRAINER Mick Price has high hopes for his Heart Of Dreams on the eve of his autumn return, but yesterday conceded he would be thrashed at his first-up run on Friday night by unbeaten filly Black Caviar, reports The Age.It says: ''She will clobber them,'' Price predicted. ''Her trial on Monday morning over 650 metres had to be seen to be believed. She's some sort of machine.''The Peter Moody-trained filly will be having only her fifth start and her first against the older horses in the group 2 Au
TRAINER Mick Price has high hopes for his Heart Of Dreams on the eve of his autumn return, but yesterday conceded he would be thrashed at his first-up run on Friday night by unbeaten filly Black Caviar, reports The Age.
It says: ''She will clobber them,'' Price predicted. ''Her trial on Monday morning over 650 metres had to be seen to be believed. She's some sort of machine.''
The Peter Moody-trained filly will be having only her fifth start and her first against the older horses in the group 2 Australia Stakes over 1200 metres at Moonee Valley and Price said he simply hoped his dual group 1 winner Heart Of Dreams could finish within six lengths of Black Caviar.
''She'll be coming back to scale when mine is still in the straight,'' Price said. ''I'm happy with Heart Of Dreams at the moment but he won't get near her. He's on an Australian Cup campaign so I'd like to see him getting home late in the race, hopefully for a place.''
Price does have a knack of producing horses in the race, which had been run as the Carlyon Stakes for the past 12 years. He won first-up with Slavonic (2000) and Vocabulary (2004) and Intelligent Star was beaten a nose by Royal Code in 2002. Black Caviar is the early favourite for the group 1 $1 million Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on March 6.