Far from keeping Black Caviar wrapped in cotton wool, Peter Moody plans to run the world champion sprinter in as many as six Group One races across the eastern seaboard before the season is over.The four-year-old will have a jump out on her home track at Caulfield on Tuesday morning ahead of her first up run in Saturday week's Lightning Stakes.The unbeaten mare, who was named the world's best turf sprinter for 2010, will be out to record her ninth successive win in the 1000m weight-for-age featu
Far from keeping Black Caviar wrapped in cotton wool, Peter Moody plans to run the world champion sprinter in as many as six Group One races across the eastern seaboard before the season is over.
The four-year-old will have a jump out on her home track at Caulfield on Tuesday morning ahead of her first up run in Saturday week's Lightning Stakes.
The unbeaten mare, who was named the world's best turf sprinter for 2010, will be out to record her ninth successive win in the 1000m weight-for-age feature at Flemington.
Moody said that would just be the first of her targets spread over the Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane carnivals.
"She certainly keeps us on our toes but I'm happy to report that she's in great shape and looks tremendous for her upcoming assignments," Moody said at Monday's Melbourne Festival Of Racing launch.
"She had a jump out 10 days ago and is having another one in the morning just to blow the cobwebs away.
"She's very fit and well and forward so this one just tops her off and then it's 11 days into the Lightning which is the way we planned it so touch wood everything goes according to plan."
Moody said a Newmarket Handicap start would not hinge on what weight Black Caviar got but how much weight she would be giving to her rivals.
He is already looking forward to the return clash in the Lightning with Hay List who was below par when 11-1/2 lengths sixth of seven runners behind Black Caviar in the Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington on November 6.
"I've got great respect for Hay List. You'd be kidding yourself if you didn't believe that he wasn't at his top the day we did meet him at Flemington.
"He looks a hell of a horse. He's a hulking giant and I think it's great for racing.
"I've always had the belief my mare could do the job. Hay List has only been beaten three times and hopefully he doesn't end her run of victories.
"She looks tremendous, her work's tremendous and at the end of her last preparation was the first time she went to the paddock 100 per cent sound and she's come back in such good shape also.
"Once we get her fit we don't have to do that much with her even though she is such a big, strong horse.
"She has the odd trip to Mordialloc beach and up to Peter Clark's at Murchison on the water walker to keep the pressure off her legs and just keep her enjoying her racing.