SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here A THIN ‘BLACK’ LINE UPSET EXACTA IN MOTHER GOOSE It was far tighter than expected, but Black Caviar Belmont=s GI Mother Goose S. was expected by many (Aus) (Bel Esprit {Aus}) clung on after her jockey Luke to be a match race between GI Acorn S. heroine Nolen caused a few Contested (Ghostzapper) and GI Kentucky Oaks victress minor heart attacks to Believe You Can (Proud Citizen), but when those two win Royal Ascot's fillies failed to show up with G1 Diamond Jubilee S. their best, Live Oak Connections of her Plantation=s Zo Impressive opponents may have (Hard Spun) was there to pick appeared to be up the pieces and garner a clutching at straws top-level success. The Acorn runner-up sat perched off Black Caviar Racing Post/Ed Whitaker beforehand in their belief that she could be Contested=s pace in third as beaten, but in another stride Moonlight Cloud (GB) that one seemed to be getting (Invincible Spirit {Ire}) would have done the loose as she had last time. unthinkable. Sent to the front with a quarter mile Scrubbed on to challenge her Zo Impressive Coglianese/NYRA remaining, the 1-6 pick looked to have it in safe keeping foe at the head of the lane, before being eased down prematurely near the line, Zo Impressive went right on by the frontrunner with which came in time as she held on to win by a little resistance, but was immediately confronted by diminishing head margin from the French raider. Luke fellow grey Disposablepleasure (Giacomo). That pair Nolen was in humble mood afterwards. "I probably dueled gamely down to the line, bumping slightly at one underestimated the testing track of Ascot," he said. point, but Zo Impressive pulled away late to ultimately prove 3/4-of-a-length best and become the first Grade I "She'd had enough and that big engine throttled right winner for her second-crop sire (by Danzig). The Oaks down. It's quite unfortunate, because we're going to winner checked in third, 8 1/2 lengths back of the talk more about my brain fade than the horse's runner-up, while Contested finished last in the five- fantastic effort. We got away with it." Cont. p3 horse field. AIt wasn=t a big [field] but it was probably Saturday, Royal Ascot, Britain the four best fillies you=ve got in the country right now, DIAMOND JUBILEE S.-G1, ,500,000, Ascot, 6-23, so that=s what made the race pretty special,@ said 3yo/up, 6fT, 1:14.10, gd. winning conditioner Tom Albertrani. AWe always had 1--BLACK CAVIAR (AUS), 127, m, 6, by Bel Esprit (Aus) confidence in our filly, and she was just very sharp 1st Dam: Helsinge (Aus), by Desert Sun (GB) today.@ Cont. p5 2nd Dam: Scandinavia (Aus), by Snippets (Aus) 3rd Dam: Song of Norway (Aus), by Vain (Aus) (A$210,000 yrl '08 INGPRM). O-G J Wilkie, K J Wilkie, Werrett Bloodstock P/L Synd (Mgr: N Werrett), C Madden, J Madden, P Hawkes, D M Taylor & J Taylor; B-R Jamieson; T-Peter Moody; J-Luke Nolen; ,283,550. Lifetime Record: Horse of the Year & Ch. Sprinter-Aus, MG1SW-Aus, 22-22-0-0, ,4,513,951. *1/2 to All Too Hard (Aus) (Casino Prince {Aus}), MGSW & G1SP-Aus. Werk Nick Rating: A++ (1SW). Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. 2--Moonlight Cloud (GB), 127, f, 4, Invincible Spirit (Ire)-- Ventura (Ire), by Spectrum (Ire). O/B-George Strawbridge; T-Freddy Head; ,107,500. 3--Restiadargent (Fr), 120, f, 3, Kendargent (Fr)--Restia (Fr), by Montjeu (Ire). O/B-Guy Pariente; T-Henri-Alex Pantall; ,53,800. Margins: HD, NK, 3/4. Odds: 1-6, 5-1, 40-1. Also Ran: Soul (Aus), Society Rock (Ire), Krypton Factor (GB), Sirius Prospect, Royal Rock (GB), Es Que Love (Ire), Pastoral Player (GB), Genki (Ire), The Cheka (Ire), Jimmy Styles (GB), Bogart (GB). Scratched: Hitchens (Ire). Click for the Racing Post chart, the brisnet.com PPs or the free brisnet.com catalogue-style pedigree. Video, courtesy attheraces.com. In This Issue Sea Moon Eclipses Rivals at Ascot 60 Broad St., Suite 100 Red Bank, NJ 07701 Khalid Abdullah's powerful galloper Sea (732) 747-8060 Moon (GB) (Beat Hollow {GB}) showed (732) 747-8955 (fax) much promise last year, and hinted that the www.thoroughbreddailynews.com best might still be to come with an www.thetdn.com authoritative 3 1/4-length tally over (Nicobar {GB}) in Royal Dunaden (Fr) Barry Weisbord, co-publisher Ascot’s G2 Hardwicke S. yesterday. 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Black Caviar's momentous popularity can be measured by the fact that her narrow defeat of the Euro brigade was watched live by a crowd of 10,000 in a closed-off Federation Square in Melbourne, as well as by the largest contingent of visiting Australians in the Berkshire venue's history. Everywhere she goes now, she generates a wave of salmon-and-black memorabilia, and Ascot was relatively benign yesterday when compared to the scenes at Adelaide's Morphettville racetrack or at the likes of Flemington, Caulfield and Moonee Valley. Nevertheless, the welterweight of goodwill and support from the British people was clear to see and, despite not producing her usual visual feast at Ascot, she was met with a tumultuous welcome as she returned to the winner's spot. There was no Hay List (Aus) (Statue of Liberty) in the line-up here and very few that seemed able to push her to the kind of performance witnessed in the last two renewals of the G1 Lightning S. or last year's G1 T J Smith or G1 Newmarket H., but the outcome was far too close for comfort. Having come out of the stalls with her usual gusto, the dark bay was settled in third early traveling smoothly as Frankie Dettori cut out the running on Soul (Aus) (Commands {Aus}). Moving up to lead passing the GI Mother Goose S. Zo Impressive (Hard Spun) pulls off quarter pole, her the upset and gets her GI. effort looked more labored than usual, GII Hollywood Oaks Potesta (Macho Uno) battles in the but she soon had stretch to win by a nose. two lengths to spare out in front. Black Caviar (pink) narrowly holds off GIII Boiling Springs S. Dancing Solo (Giant=s Causeway) Luke Nolen waved Moonlight Cloud (white) RP/Mark Cranham makes it two straight at the Jersey Shore. the stick, but never used it and put it down with 125 yards remaining as GIII Debutante S. Blueeyesintherein (Magna Graduate) the French contenders Moonlight Cloud and sails clear to an impressive victory. Restiadargent started to wear her down. As Black Caviar began to tread water, her rider eased off the Charlie Barley S. Hammers Terror (Artie Schiller) gas, and the final yards were as dramatic as any finish clinches his first stakes win. in the Royal meeting's history. Nolen gave her one more push as he realised his error with the French fillies 4th-BHP Distracting (Distorted Humor) gets tabbed a bearing down, and luckily the post came in the nick of TDN Rising Star in this eye-catching unveiling. > = time. This was her first photo finish and shortest winning margin since her 3/4-length defeat of Wanted 3rd-MTH Cape Cod Canal (Wildcat Heir) lopes to victory (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) in Flemington's G2 Danehill in his second start. S. 18 runs ago. Cont. p4 P TDN HEADLINE NEWS • 6/24/12 • PAGE 4 of 16 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Black Caviar cont.