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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here BLACK CAVIAR RETIRED HOT STUFF Black Caviar (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}--Helsinge {Aus}, Khalid Abdullah=s Hot Snap (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), by Desert Sun {GB}), who earned legions of fans and a making just her second career start, took major strides devoted following the world over with 25 victories from forward to provide Sir Henry Cecil with an eighth as many trips to the races, has been retired to the renewal of Newmarket=s G3 Nell Gwyn breeding shed, managing owner Neil Werrett and trainer S. yesterday. The half-sister to Midday Peter Moody announced during an emotional press (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) was hand conference Wednesday afternoon at Caulfield. ridden to take the lead with 1 1/2 ATwenty-five's a great number, and we thought she furlongs remaining and just one flick did us all proud on Saturday,@ Moody explained, voice with the whip was enough to secure a wavering, referring to the 6-year-old=s victory in the comfortable 2 1/4-length success. G1 T. J. Smith S. Once composed, he started again. AProvided Henry and the Prince are AThe mare=s in great shape, we thought long and hard Hot Snap happy, I see no reason why she Racing Post photo about racing on for another season, we thought about wouldn=t go for the G1 1000 Guineas [Royal] Ascot, we thought about Brisbane, we thought and a mile will be her right trip, I would think,@ said about Adelaide, but at the end of the day, we believe Abdullah=s racing manager Teddy Grimthorpe. AShe is she=s done everything we=ve asked her to do and she more likely to be a miler than her half-sister and, couldn=t have possibly done any more. It=s the right although they are both by sprinting stallions, they have time to call it a day on what=s been a wonderful career different physical make-ups. She is more likely to go to of maybe one of the finest horses we=ve ever seen.@ Royal Ascot after the Guineas than the Oaks.@ Cont. p6 Victory number 25 came in front of a packed house at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, and was her LIVELY START TO CRAVEN SALE 15th overall at the top level, surpassing the 30-year-old It didn't take long for the Tattersalls Craven Sale to record held by the legendary Kingston Town (Aus). It sneak into six-figure territory when lot 6, a More Than was her eighth straight score in Group 1 company, also Ready colt consigned by John Egan's Friarstown a record. Nine of her top-level victories came at the Bloodstock, was knocked down to a bid of 320,000gns three major tracks in Melbourne, two in Sydney and (US$512,212), a figure that held the lead throughout Adelaide, one in Brisbane and her dramatic victory in the session. During the opening session of the two-day last year=s G1 Diamond Jubilee S. at Royal Ascot. sale, 51 lots sold for 4,007,000gns and the average Werrett, who put together a group of friends to race rose 24% to 78,569gns. The median price was down Black Caviar, was one of many who thought she=d run 5% to 52,000gns. Cont. p7 her final race at Ascot. ATo get three more runs out of her and three more wins was a positive for the whole team and for Australian racing,@ Werrett said. AIt was always going to be a hard decision, but it would have been a worse decision if you ran on and something happened. 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Black Caviar was foaled Aug. 18, 2006, on Rick Jamieson=s Gilgai Farm some 90 minutes north of Melbourne and a little more than 18 months later, the brown filly was consigned to the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale by Swettenham Stud. She was knocked down to Peter Moody for A$210,000. AThink of the residual Black Caviar as a yearling value at the end of her inglis.com.au racing days, that=s after she=s won a Group 1 for you,@ quipped Inglis's Peter Heagney in 2008. How prescient that comment would prove. Moody was ultimately able to get Werrett involved, and, after reportedly hosting friends for a weekend on a houseboat on the Murray River, the filly was split up into nine pieces. "We've had a lot of lunches together and I'm glad we're all still together today as better friends than when we started out," Werrett told AAP Wednesday. Black Caviar was the talking horse in a field of 12 for her debut Apr. 18, 2009 up the Flemington straight, and was sent off the 2-1 favorite. The first of her quarter centuries of wins came at the longest odds of her career, as she cantered in by five lengths. She was ridden in her first two starts by Jarrad Noske, but was Black Caviar and Jarrad Noske replaced thereafter by Luke following her April 2009 debut Nolen, who was aboard for racingvictoria.net.au all but one of the mare=s subsequent 23 starts. By October 2010, she=d proven herself with four Group 2 wins, and the Patinack Farm Classic the following month represented the first chance at a Group 1. Her four-length success in 1:07.96 came at the expense of Ortensia (Aus) (Testa Rossa {Aus}), who later would frank the form with victories in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint in Dubai and in the G1 Nunthorpe S. in England. Hay List (Aus) (Statue of Liberty), one of the top sprinters in Australia, saw enough of Black Caviar in 2011, but never could quite solve her, finishing runner-up in the G1 Lightning S. and G1 T. J. Smith S. With the mare staying in the barn, Hay List got his Group 1 in the All Aged Black Caviar disposes of Hay List in S., but Black Caviar the 2011 Smith racingvictoria.net.au proved two lengths too good in the G1 B T C Cup to conclude that preparation. Cont. p4 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 4/18/13 • PAGE 4 of 14 • thoroughbreddailynews.com She successfully defended her title in the Patinack But the race exacted its toll on Black Caviar, as she Farm Classic in November 2011, then--in the span of was diagnosed with torn muscles, and connections 22 days--won the G2 Australia S., the G1 C.F. Orr S. seriously considered calling it a day. They opted to give and the Lightning for a second time in early 2012.