SYDNEY advertising giant John Singleton is urging the Australian Turf Club to entice outstanding sprinter Black Caviar to Sydney for a match-race with his mare More Joyous next month, reports The Age.It says: Singleton, whose four-year-old is long odds-on to win today's group 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, has had talks with the ATC and implored the newly formed body to vastly increase the prizemoney of the $175,000 Canterbury Stakes (1300 metres) at Rosehill on March 19 in a bid to lure Black
SYDNEY advertising giant John Singleton is urging the Australian Turf Club to entice outstanding sprinter Black Caviar to Sydney for a match-race with his mare More Joyous next month, reports The Age.
It says: Singleton, whose four-year-old is long odds-on to win today's group 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, has had talks with the ATC and implored the newly formed body to vastly increase the prizemoney of the $175,000 Canterbury Stakes (1300 metres) at Rosehill on March 19 in a bid to lure Black Caviar north.
He says Sydney racing should embrace a match-race between the two great mares considering the unprecedented following that Black Caviar has Australia-wide, and the support More Joyous has in her home state of NSW.
''John Singleton has challenged us to see if we can get Black Caviar to come to Sydney for the Canterbury Stakes, if we pump up the prizemoney and create a bit of a match-race theme,'' ATC chief executive Darren Pearce said yesterday.
Black Caviar returned to racing at Flemington last Saturday and demolished her rivals in the group 1 Lightning Stakes, extending her unbeaten run to nine.
More Joyous has won 11 of her 15 starts and is chasing her fourth group 1 win in the Futurity Stakes today.
''I think they [ATC] will talk to the Black Caviar camp, because the Canterbury Stakes will be an ideal clash between two fantastic mares,'' Singleton said.