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On The Pulse A Brazilian Beauty Article by Adrian Dunn

DESERT STAR BRUCE CLARK’S DUBAI

Luke Nolen

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TWICEThe Rise and Rise of Features from John Costello & Tony Bourke BLACK

CAVIARBy ANDREW GARVEY

Despite Peter Moody’s brave face at the media conference two days before the last February, the trainer knew the chance for victory on the resume of his outstanding filly might have passed forever.

hile the prognosis for her racing future was good, the suspensory injury she had Wjust incurred, combined with her bulk and subsequent stress on her legs, there were no guarantees The trainer was initially attracted to the Bel Esprit filly by the about her future. fact that she was closely related to his former Group One Fast forward to Flemington on the final day of the 2010 winning sprinter, Magnus. . With an emotional victory by Black Caviar in the Patinack Farm Stakes, a husky-voiced Moody “EVERYONE HAS DONE A GREAT sounded like he had been urging on his mare with every JOB in helping to get her stride. back, but Michael is one of The public and indeed her owners, who Moody describes the unsung heroes in my as “absolutely tremendous” in leaving the training to the stable and has done a lot trainer, might have expected the victory at the highest level of work with her” to come eventually. But for her trainer, the win was a relief In the spring of 2009, Black Caviar had been scheduled to run as much as a triumph. in the Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day. The Patinack was Black Caviar’s eighth win in as many But after injuring muscles in her chest while winning first up starts, but such had been Moody’s initial patience with her in the Danehill Stakes, she had to be spelled just when that and her then injuries. That race was the first time she had group one appeared at her mercy and the autumn had been had more than two race starts in a preparation and the something of a deja vu. fulfillment of the trainer’s assessment of her at the Inglis ‘’I’d gone to the Stakes to give her some experience Premier Sale two and a half years earlier. at Moonee Valley. After she missed the William Reid Stakes, ‘’I fell in love with her and just had to have her. I thought I feared that if I didn’t get the opportunity to win a Group I would have to pay up to $150,000 for her. I paid One with her that I’d be forever kicking myself that I hadn’t $210,000 and would have gone to $310,000,’’ says Moody. done something different with her.

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Winning the Patinack was just a burden off my back. It was the pressure I’d placed on myself that I hadn’t run in and won a group one with her to that point

‘’Winning the Patinack was just a burden off my back. It was Whilst Moody has been doing the worrying, Gary Wilkie, who the pressure I’d placed on myself that I hadn’t run in and won a manages the group of friends and family who race Black Caviar, is Group One with her to that point,’’ Moody says. just enjoying the ride. The group gets together on race days for a large lunch of up to 60 people, and continued the tradition on Even after two outstanding wins following recovery from her William Reid Stakes day. injury, the lead-up to the Patinack was not without incident. Ben Melham had to replace stable jockey and regular rider, Luke ‘’Around 60 of us still went for lunch after she was scratched. Nolen, who had been suspended. Moonee Valley printed the menu in her colours, which was great. You only get a minute and seven seconds or so in the race, but Such was Moody’s concern with his mare’s welfare that he we try to make the day as much fun as we can and the racing requested Melham temper any celebrations (on what was to be clubs have been fantastic,’’ Wilkie said. ‘‘ his first Group One win) until he had dismounted. A fit Black Caviar is already back at work, preparing for an assault But while the trainer was happy to take any blame for possibly on the autumn group sprints, including this year’s not winning a Group One with his champion sprinter, he is more Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes, followed by the ’’ than happy to share the plaudits for victory with his staff and and Brisbane campaigns. Wilkie and his fellow owners can look others who assist in getting her to the races. forward to some long lunches and a few more Group One Every campaign for Black Caviar starts with a stint on a water victories. walker with pre-trainer Peter Clarke at Murchison in northern , followed by numerous appointments with Moody’s chiropractor Michael Bryant. ‘’Everyone from (foreman) Tony Haydon down has done a great job in helping to get her back, but Michael is one of the unsung heroes in my stable and has done a lot of work with her,’’ he says. 23 El Segundo

Essendon Mazda Australia Stakes

The Essendon Mazda Australia Historically a race won by the punters elect, Black Caviar Stakes represents Victoria’s first ($1.70) continued the tradition and became the 10th favourite to win the race in its 23 runnings. Piavonic Group 2 race in 2011. Run in (2001) and Flavour (1998) are the only winners of the association with Australia Day race to pay double figure odds, paying $26 and $15 celebrations, Moonee Valley plays respectively. host to this key sprint race under This year’s running of the Group 2 Essendon Mazda lights on Friday 28 January. Australia Stakes is sure to attract Australia’s fastest horses as they embark on a rich autumn carnival. Australian In 2010, the unbeaten Black Caviar became the first Horse of the Year Typhoon Tracy will commence her three-year-old filly to win the race over 1200 metres autumn assault in the race, which will give Peter Moody at weight-for-age conditions in its 23rd running. In a every chance to achieve back-to-back wins. dominant display the bullish filly shone, beating her older and more seasoned opposition by 2 ¼ lengths. Trained out of the all-conquering Peter Moody stable and supremely partnered by stable hoop Luke Nolen, the filly’s victory was dominant. ESSENDON MAZDA In the race’s short but outstanding history, the Essendon AUSTRALIA ST Mazda Australia Stakes has been won by some of AKES country’s fastest horses including Special, Redelva, Friday 28 January, 2011 and . A prominent inclusion on the race’s honour roll is W.S. Cox Plate champion, El Segundo (2007). Premium Night Racing Gates Open 5.15pm First Race 6.45pm 42 Linton

NEW DISTANCE for Alister Clark The Group 2 Top Cut Alister Clark 7 length maiden win at Cranbourne, before franking his class Stakes finds a new home and with victory in the Group 2 Top Cut Alister Clark Stakes at his distance in 2011. Set to run under third career start. lights for the first time ever on Friday This year’s race will also offer two-year-olds one of the last 18 March, the race will cover a new opportunities to qualify for the $3 million Golden Slipper, with distance of 2040 metres, increasing the running of the $100,000 Listed Sportingbet St Albans Stakes from 1600 metres in 2010. over 1000 metres. Moonee Valley Racing Club is hosting Melbourne’s metropolitan The race was run over 2040 metres between 1987 and 1997. meeting on Saturday 2 April, corresponding with Golden Slipper This $200,000 three-year-old event has been strategically shifted Day in Sydney. to now fall 13 days after the Group 1 Australia Guineas over the mile. Not only offering the best three-year-olds in the country an opportunity over the testing 2040 metres, the race now creates ALISTER CLARK ST a direct link to the rich Sydney Autumn Carnival, in particular the AKES Group 1 over 2000 metres, to be contested 8 Friday 18 March, 2011 days after the Top Cut Alister Clark Stakes. Gates Open 5.15pm The promising Linton won the Group 2 Top Cut Alister Clark First Race 6.45pm Stakes in 2010 with the astute Michael Rodd aboard. The Lloyd Williams owned galloper was coming off an impressive Black Caviar To Return For Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes

Black Caviar

The Group 1 Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes will bring to a close Moonee Valley’s Sportingbet Night Racing Season for 2010/2011.

Traditionally contested in February, the Pulse Pharmacy winners have won the William Reid Stakes, including The William Reid Stakes has been strategically repositioned Night Patrol, Heroic, , Chanak, Star Affair and to run on March 25 at Moonee Valley, 13 days after the Family Of Man. Ten mares have won the race, the last Group 1 and 15 days before the being in 2007. Twenty-four 3-year-olds have Group 1 TJ Smith in Sydney. With the race now falling won the sprint including ten fillies. The last colt to win the after Flemington’s Super Saturday, it offers sprinters William Reid was Yell (2003) and the last filly to do so a clear pathway and improved synergies between the was Virage de Fortune in 2006. Melbourne and Sydney carnivals. The Club anticipates After Miss Andretti won the William Reid Stakes in 2007 an enhancement to the quality of the field, whilst also she then conquered Royal Ascot, winning the King’s Stand dramatically improving the end of the Sportingbet Night Stakes. Cape Of Good Hope is another Royal Ascot Racing Season. graduate. After winning the William Reid in 2005, he The 2011 edition of the Group 1 Pulse Pharmacy claimed the Golden Jubilee Stakes at Ascot 4 months later. William Reid Stakes promises to be a vintage running, The Group 1 Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes has with sprinting sensation Black Caviar set to clash with a rich pedigree of past champions and is a must for all title contender Hay List. Presenting a daunting task for all racing enthusiasts to be on-course at Moonee Valley to other opposition, both horses hold outstanding Moonee enjoy the speed and thrills of racing Valley records, each having won under lights at the Valley. under lights. The $500,000 Group 1 Pulse Pharmacy William Reid Stakes was won in 2010 by the Anthony Cummings trained Turffontein in a blanket finish, holding out Wanted and Sniper’s Bullet. Supremely ridden by , the PULSE PHARMACY 6-year-old entire faced the starter for one last time after AKES his victory, with stud duties beckoning. The weight-for-age WILLIAM REID ST 1200 metre race has been won by Australia’s premium sprinters including (2008 and 2009) and Friday 25 March, 2011 Miss Andretti (2007) in recent times. But the race holds The night will also host the $200,000 Group 2 significant importance for Moonee Valley legend, . Sportingbet Stakes (1600m) and the The mighty Manikato claimed the William Reid Stakes $100,000 Stayers Final (3000m). over five consecutive years between 1979 and 1983. The William Reid Stakes was first run in 1925 and has Moonee Valley Night Racing been a Group 1 event since 1987. Six W.S. Cox Plate Season Finale 44 Gates Open 5.15pm First Race 6.45pm ELIZA PARK The resounding success of Melbourne’s sprint sensations – Black Caviar and Hay List – has established a huge milestone for leading stud farm, Eliza Park.

egarded as Victoria’s preeminent breeding Statue of Liberty – also the sire of the multiple facility with its 11-strong stallion roster and Group winner Mic Mac – continues to go from strength vast array of services, Eliza Park now stands to strength and has again covered a full book of the sires of the world’s two fastest horses quality mares. in Bel Esprit (Black Caviar) and Statue of Liberty (Hay List). HRay List got the ball rolling in the spring with his commanding We have sponsored a victory in the Group One Sportingbet at number of races over Moonee Valley on 24 September, while Black Caviar claimed victory in the Group Two Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield and Group the years Two Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley before maintaining her at Moonee Valley unbeaten record – and grabbing No. 1 billing – with a romp in the Group One Patinack Farm Classic on the final day of the As a son of Storm Cat, the hottest sireline property in the carnival. world today, Statue of Liberty boasts a remarkable stakes To stand the sire of one top sprinter is an achievement in itself, winners to runners strike rate in this part of the globe and the but the sires of two is something else altogether. Bel Esprit likes of Hay List and Mic Mac will only enhance that profile in assumed duties at Eliza Park in 2003 following an outstanding the seasons to come. racing career that realised victories in the Blue Diamond and The rise and rise of Black Caviar though is particularly sweet for Doomben 10,000. all those involved with Eliza Park as, in a sense, the flashy mare Now, with just five crops of racing age, Bel Esprit is the reigning chronicles the farm’s history. Champion Sire in Victoria for the fourth successive season with Prior to ‘creating’ Eliza Park, third generation breeder and NSW his runners including Bel Mer, Gabbidon, Vivacious Spirit, True businessman, Lee Fleming, raced a brilliant sprinter by the name Persuasion and Mooring to name but a few. of Scandinavia, winning multiple and placing in several Group Ones with the mare. 46 Moshe as a yearling

“Eliza Park is proud Bel Esprit of its association with Moonee Valley Racing Club”

Shortly after in 1999, Lee determined to stand – as Eliza Park’s And, although the recently pensioned Desert Sun is now living foundation stallion – the remarkable Desert Sun who, despite out his days in a lush paddock, Helsinge’s half brother – the producing 31 stakes winners in five countries, will forever be Group One winning sprinter Magnus – is poised to make his remembered as the sire of racing immortal Sunline. mark at Eliza Park with the first of his yearlings appearing at major sales throughout Australasia in 2011. By the time Desert Sun arrived at Eliza Park from New Zealand, Sunline had taken out just one of her 13 Group Ones: grabbing “Eliza Park is proud of its association with Moonee Valley Racing the first of her two Cox Plates while her sire was in the midst of Club,” Eliza Park’s CEO Cameron Croucher enthused. “We have covering 139 mares. sponsored a number of races over the years at Moonee Valley – including the Sunline Stakes on a number of occasions. By the time Sunline had won her second Cox Plate, Desert Sun’s second Australian ‘book’ included Scandinavia, the result of “In October we sponsored one of Moonee Valley’s most which was a bonny filly named Helsinge. prestigious events – the Statue of Liberty Stutt Stakes which, fittingly, was on the same program as the Manikato won by Although unraced, Helsinge has risen to tremendous heights as Hay List. a broodmare with her only two foals to race being Black Caviar (eight from eight) and her exciting full brother Moshe who also “Not surprisingly, we celebrated the night’s events on course in maintained his unbeaten record with a win at Moonee Valley in the Eliza Park Sunline Suite which is open to all owners late November. and trainers.”

47 The Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge is programmed as Race 4 at 8:15pm at each of the night is a pure test of speed over a new race meetings. distance of 955 metres. The Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge is an exciting new initiative for the 2010/2011 Sportingbet Night Racing Season The barriers are positioned in the 1000 metre chute at Moonee Valley. The big question is will the 55 second mark and the challenge will be to see which horse and jockey can be broken? The only way to find out is to be on track at break the 55 second mark across the Sportingbet Night Moonee Valley. Racing Season. The trainer of the horse that runs the quickest time across the On each of the 18 night meetings in season 2010/2011, 18 races within the series will win a Mazda CX9 Classic valued Moonee Valley will stage an Essendon Mazda 55 Second at $55,000 from Essendon Mazda. The jockey that posts the Challenge heat, with each heat carrying prizemoney of quickest time will receive $10,000 cash from Essendon Mazda. $55,000. The Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge race

Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge Results

Heat WinnER tRainER jOckey time @ 55 Seconds from WP 1 sunday Rose Michael Rodd 56.13 936 metres 19 metres 2 Tully Dreamer Matthew Hyland 55.83 941 metres 14 metres 3 waltzes Jarrod McLean dwayne Dunn 55.62 944.5 metres 10.5 metres 4 The Fugitive david Hayes Brad Rawiller 56.70 927 metres 28 metres 5 act of Faith robbie Griffiths ryan Maloney 57.20 918 metres 37 metres 6 Esprit de Bullet Mark Lewis craig Newitt 55.75 942 metres 13 metres 7 Éclair Flyer robert Smerdon glen Boss 57.08 920 metres 35 metres 8 One Last Dance peter Moody luke Nolen 56.71 926 metres 29 metres 9 la Bella Roo Peter Boynton jake Noonan 55.48 947 metres 8 metres

Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge Heats

hEat datE RACE 10 Friday 14th January $55,000 NMW Hcp 955m 11 Friday 28th January $55,000 Mares 0-78 Hcp 955m 12 Friday 4th February $55,000 0-82 Hcp 955m 13 Friday 11th February $55,000 3yo Open Hcp 955m 14 Friday 18th February $55,000 3yo Fillies 0-72 Hcp 955m 15 Friday 25th February $55,000 3yo Open Hcp 955m 16 Friday 4th March $55,000 0-78 Hcp 955m 17 Friday 18th March $55,000 Mares 0-72 Hcp 955m 18 Friday 25th March $55,000 0-78 Hcp 955m Trainer Peter Boynton with jockey Jake Noonan after victory aboard La Bella Roo and new Essendon Mazda 55 Second Challenge leader in a time of 55.48. Luke Nolen aboard Black Caviar Q&A with Luke Nolen

First winner ridden price Hike, 28th March 1998 at Albury Congratulations on winning the Melbourne Jockey’s Premiership. Is this a career defining achievement for you? First city winner Traf Eire, 29th April 1999 at Moonee Valley It gave me great satisfaction to win the Premiership although the hard work doesn’t stop. The most successful people are the ones that stay at Favourite horse Doolam Gem, Typhoon Tracy, Black Caviar the top for a long period of time. Best horse(s) ridden Typhoon Tracy, Black Caviar What was your experience at Ascot in representing Australia as part Best horse seen of the Rest of the World team in the Cup? It was a great experience to be part of such a great event. To ride against some of the best jockeys in the world was a great feeling. The Your 2007 Cox Plate victory on El Segundo was a great moment tracks there are so different compared to our tracks here. on the racecourse. How would you describe the hours following your win? Explain the feeling watching Ben Melham and Black Caviar claim their It was a long drinking session with a lot of people. It was a great to be maiden Group 1 wins. part of such a wonderful horse and race. Very happy for Ben and the mare but very hard to watch when you are suspended.

60 “The most SPEEDY SIX successful WITH LUKE NOLEN people are Favourite pastime (other than racing)? Golf/ Water skiing the ones Favourite food? Love a good steak that stay at Favourite drink? Corona or Jim Beam Favourite film? Lonesome Dove the top for a Five people you’d invite to a dinner party? Depends who’s long period paying! As long as it’s good company I’m happy to have anybody. of time” Motto in life? Winning is habit.

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