Interesting stats are emerging from Black Caviar's winning run in the Diamond Jubilee at Ascot. UK based ratings experts Timeform have provisionally projected Black Caviar performed by some 6.5kgs below her best on Saturday. And Britain's head of handicapping Phil Smith more conservatively estimated the run at between 5kgs to 6kgs under her capabilities. The Daily Mail newspaper says: 'But after a 10,000 mile global trip from the southern hemisphere, Black Caviar deserves to be cut a little leew

Interesting stats are emerging from Black Caviar's winning run in the Diamond Jubilee at Ascot. UK based ratings experts Timeform have provisionally projected Black Caviar performed by some 6.5kgs below her best on Saturday. And Britain's head of handicapping Phil Smith more conservatively estimated the run at between 5kgs to 6kgs under her capabilities. The Daily Mail newspaper says: 'But after a 10,000 mile global trip from the southern hemisphere, Black Caviar deserves to be cut a little leeway and not be too harshly judged despite not completely living up to the pre-race publicity. Having travelled from the Aussie winter, her coat lacked the gleam of her rivals and Smith also argued that the result also reflected national racing styles.' The sectionals make interesting reading. Black Caviar completed the last furlong in 13.7secs - the third slowest time in the field. But he split between the two and one furlong pole of 10.84sec, easily the quickest in the race.

Latest news from the Black Caviar camp is that she WILL be continuing her racing career. Trainer Peter Moody has told the UK Daily Telegraph: 'She will be prepared for another crack at the Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington, which she has won for the past two years...I have had my vets and chiropractors take some precautionary X-rays of Black Caviar. They have come back fine, but she has some soft tissue damage...The quadricep muscle is where the main problem is and she is quite sore behind. It is the tightest I have seen her after a race...They are injuries she has sustained before, so it is not unusual. She has torn her quad muscle before and it will not be the finish of her.'