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Nerves jangle in Australia as Black Caviar sets off on long journey
Nerves jangle in Australia as Black Caviar sets off on long journey
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So do I ima..........not too worry cleaning up down under with Ed...........wtf is megsy?
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megsy doesn't tip
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imamug...your a funny little turd muncher
while your belittling Ed re your 3 yr old classic's,how about telling your audience how you thought australia's premier sprints are run at moonee valley around a bend better still, how you said your UK Sprinters are disadvantage by coming to Australia...lol,lol,lol...tfw of the highest order ps...re i dont tip....fcuk tipping, even when i was told my own horse was a certainty by the trainer it would find a reason to lose. |
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SHE is the fastest horse on earth and her trainer believes there isn't another alive that can beat her.
But as Black Caviar boarded a plane for England on Wednesday, trainer Peter Moody warned she wouldn't take a single step on an English racecourse unless she came through the trip in perfect shape. "If she doesn't travel well and I'm not 100 per cent happy with her, everyone will have a nice holiday in England and won't see her race," Moody said. Black Caviar will attempt to win her 22nd race from as many starts in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes (1200m) at Royal Ascot on June 23 and Moody is supremely confident she will keep her unbeaten record intact. "She's getting on the plane the fittest she's been in her career," he said. Moody has devised a special program under which Black Caviar did her most testing gallops at home at Caulfield, leaving her two weeks in England to recover from the flight. "I don't want to have to train her for the next two weeks," Moody said. In his efforts to have his champion mare ready for her appointment with the Queen at Royal Ascot, Moody has gone to extraordinary lengths. As well as the celebrated compression suit she will wear on the flight, Moody has made it clear to Singapore Airlines that they have a special passenger on board and has sent her vet Peter Angus, his stable foreman Tony Haydon and exercise rider Paddy Bell on the flight with her. He also sent a load of her favourite feed to England ahead of her last week. "Singapore Airlines have been terrific, they realise what cargo they're carrying and every effort has been made to keep the stopovers as brief as possible," he said. Unlike regular passengers who can walk around the cabin, Black Caviar will have to stand in her crate for at least 30 hours, depending on the length of stopovers in Singapore and Sharjah. By the time she gets to her English stables at Newmarket she is likely to have been in a plane or a truck for around 36 hours. |
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Megsy why are you on here when you could be banking $s following me and Ed on the upside down racing?
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ʎɐʍɐ ʇ! әʌ!ƃ ʇou 'ʎәuoɯ u!ʍ oʇ ʇuɐʍ !
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They just said she is over India, I thought India and England where the same country ffs learn something every day
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Smega boy you really do have a problem retaining information don't you, I'm only surprised you can find your way home at night.
I've told you 101...actually it must be more than that now that you don't set the agenda (or is it gender? lol) on here and it was only you limiting (and then further again later on) what the criteria was to a premier Aussie sprint. I was only responding to the initial claim about no UK horses coming to run in the Aussie sprints full stop. You seem to want to try to convince yourself you can chop and change what others have said, just so as you can come back with a retort to your own point......which is a bit like going on a chat show and the host interviews himself!  Nobody at the time was narrowing it down to any particular races, that's why the word race has an S on the end to indicate the plural and so if I want to make any points about any Aussie race then I will do so. If I'm mentioning going around a bend and 6f races and you highlight a 5f race without a bend, then even your lack of intelligence should still be able to cope with working out that I'm obviously not on about those particular races then, mainly due to the fact that they A might not be 6f and B nor around a bend. You also failed to respond to my question about certain races being left or right handed and the times Black Caviar has raced around a bend, but no real surprise there when you made a sweeping statement limiting yourself to a criteria that nobody else has to stay within and were then made to look like a d1ckhead and so you do your old head burying trick again. Plus without even pointing out the obvious that Black Caviar has won sprint races at Mooney Valley all the way up to Gr1 level and in a race worth over £200k to the winner. I think I understand your problem though, due to your lack of ability to retain information, whenever anyone else talks about the top sprint races they could mean anything from half a dozen races at levels from Gr1 to Gr3 as opposed to numerous other sprints at lower levels but you obvious switch off at 2 races thinking that you have dealt with the plural part of things.  So if that's the case smegma boy, how many "premier" sprint races has Black Caviar won from her 21? Oh and if you are going to try to pass off things attributed to me as if they are straight copy and paste jobs, you had better make sure your grammar (with an A) is up to scratch when you type them out yourself. its fact that it would be hard for any UK trainer to give their horses a workout on snow covered grass gallops a week either side of Christmas. Perhaps you expect them to ask the farrier to fit them with skis I know the difference between its and it's and I don't think I would start a sentence with "its fact that...." and then “UK horses will be disadvantage running around a tight corner in Australian premier sprints”. I'm also aware that "will be disadvatage" is the kind of English a 6 year old would be ashamed of.  Oh and classic's denotes belonging to so no need for the greengrocer's apostrophe (see what I just did there? lol), classics with an S on the end signifies it's a plural. |
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So if that's the case smegma boy, how many "premier" sprint races has Black Caviar won from her 21?
5 turd muncher....a big "5" 1 newmarket 2 lightning 2 patinick and as i said and i looooooove repeating how about telling your audience how you thought australia's premier sprints are run at moonee valley around a bend better still, how you said your UK Sprinters are disadvantage by coming to Australia...lol,lol,lol...tfw of the highest order |
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She's closing in on your shores
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Nobody does bullsh1t better than Aussies, seriously this is a horse coming over here to run a race, it isn't going to fcuking well take over the country, why are you so fricking bothered about it?
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By: This user is online. Captain Christy
Date Joined: 08 Mar 03 Add contact | Send message When: 07 Jun 12 09:40 Joined: Date Joined: 08 Mar 03 | Topic/replies: 3,964 | Blogger: Captain Christy's blog Nobody does bullsh1t better than Aussies repeat heathcote airport has added extra security as theres seems to be a black market for BC's caviar droppings...only in england |
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nothing wrong with winding imamug66 up
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Nobody does bullsh1t better than Aussies, seriously this is a horse coming over here to run a race, it isn't going to fcuking well take over the country, why are you so fricking bothered about it?
Tbf most of the stuff on here about her comes from people obsessed with her getting beat at Ascot |
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LOL...Fcuk me smegsy are you still having trouble reading words with more than one syllable?
WTF appointed you as the judge as to what constitutes a top Aussie sprint seeing as though it was you alone who put a premium on the word "premier" and nobody else? Are you seriously trying to tell me that races like the Gr1 William Reid worth over £200k to the winner, the Gr1 T J Smith worth just shy of £400k to the winner, the Gr1 BTC Cup worth £170k to the winner, the Gr1 Orr Stakes worth £160k to the winner, the Gr1 Classic/Sangster race worth £167k to the winner and the Gr1 Goodwood worth £210k to the winner can't be considered top level Aussie sprint races? A little clue that they can is the bit stating Gr1 in the race title. The T J Smith is actually worth more in prize money to the winner than the Lightning and Patinack and around the same as the Newmarket anyway, so although prize money alone isn't everything, I would have thought that being on a par with one or better than 2 of the other 3 you list qualified it as a top race, wouldn't you? The King's Stand, Jubilee and the July Cup are top sprint races here but it doesn't exclude others like the Haydock Sprint Cup or Nunthorpe from also qualifying. So why is Black Caviar supposed to be so special anyway then if she's only won 5 races from 21 that were supposedly top races and of any worth? heathcote airport has added extra security as theres seems to be a black market for BC's caviar droppings...only in england We're saving it to spread on the outfield for the next home Ashes series so that it won't be the only Aussie sh1t on display. |
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ima_mazed66
Date Joined: 12 Oct 09 Add contact | Send message When: 07 Jun 12 10:13 Joined: Date Joined: 12 Oct 09 | Topic/replies: 2,926 | Blogger: ima_mazed66's The T J Smith is actually worth more in prize money to the winner than the Lightning and Patinack and around the same as the Newmarket anyway, so although prize money alone isn't everything well say no more Firstly, you kept reminding me your horses would be disadvantage running around a tight corner like at moonee vally, i keep remind you moron, the 3 top prestige/premier races in australia are run down the straight. but like a little boy, you sure dribble  So a bit more education for you world sprint challenge, i repeat, the world sprint challenge, just in case you cant fcuking read, "THE WORLD SPRINT CHALLENGE" has 2 australia premier/prestige races involved. i repeat " HAS 2 AUSTRALIAN PREMIER/PRESTIGE RACES INVOLVED" they are, the lightning stakes and the patinack, i will repeat again just for you to read moron "THEY ARE, THE LIGHTNING STAKES AND THE PATINACK "They are 2 of the top 3 australian sprints,I REPEAT, "THEY ARE 2 OF THE TOP 3" the other being the newmarket hcp which your horses would be given kiddy weight.But dare i say a HCP  NOW AN INTELLIGENT BOY LIKE YOURSELF, "COUGH' WOULD KNOW, IF YOUR UK SPRINTERS ARE PLANNING AN ASSAULT ON AUSTRALIA'S PREMIER/PRESTIGE SPRINTS, YOU WANT TO WIN THE BIG PREMIER/PRESTIGE RACES, WITH A $1,000,000 BONUS, RIGHT? stop being a goose pretending you know all.....you know jackshyt, I repeat, "YOU KNOW JACKSHYT" Im sure your studying to be a idiot |
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BC'S DROPPING BELONG TO HAY LIST.
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LMAO.....you should start every post you ever make with the words "once upon a time" as you just seem to make it up as you go along smegma.
I didn't say UK horses would be disadvantaged running around a bend, that's just a fantasy you create in your (correct use) head in between hearing voices. What I actually said was that our season ends in November and starts again in March and that for any of our horses to come over for races, they wouldn't just do their training routine on the plane over and would be expected to do 2 weeks of quarantine in both countries as well as the trainers wanting to get a turf training routine into their horses before going over and that doesn't mean one gallop before getting on the plane. I then said there was no turf racing in the lead up to that and trainers often couldn't use the grass gallops during Dec/Jan/Feb due to snow and frost and general weather conditions and we've even had snow during the Cheltenham Festival in March in the past. All of this I've said before but you've been unable to retain it due to not printing it out so you can refer to it again when in difficulty. I've also said the weather at that time of year is why AW racing was starting here (and we've even had AW meeting abandoned due to weather too) and why Godolphin winter their horses in Dubai and finally mentioned that if any UK horses came over for Aussie races in those months, then their trainers would probably like them to have a prep race or at least a racecourse gallop on a turning turf track like Chester which the first isn't possible and the second unlikely. Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Mooney Valley a turning track? Isn't the Gr1 William Reid race held there and isn't that race run in March? You are the only one putting any emphasis on 3 races only, nobody else and especially when I've said enough times that the Aussie horses coming here have the edge at 5f but have a poor record here at 6f, so any UK trainers would want as much as possible in their favour and would be more than likely to target 6f races. Isn't the Lightning a 5f race? You've also gone from any top Aussie sprints to the 3 "premier" to now the 2 only with the World Sprint Challenge, making restrictions up as you go along and wanting to limit everyone else to talk about what you try to decide to. What part of you don't dictate what anyone else wants to talk about don't you quite understand? As for the $1m bonus, are you really expecting any UK horses to come over for races in November, February and March which will mean flying halfway around the world and back at least twice and in that case would make more sense for the owner to transfer the horse to an Aussie trainer and leave it there, but once again I've said all of this to you before but you won't remember that. LOL....and how many more times? It's "you're" not "your" and "Im" has an apostrophe, something you tend to use when you shouldn't but don't use when you should. Fcuk me everybody is entitled to be thick but you're just abusing it now.....notice the correct use of "you're" there, you might want to copy and paste it next time. I bet your (take note) school report said "needs help with regards to thinking skills" but in all fairness even stupidity isn't really much mitigation with regards to the sh1t you come out with. |
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Aussie superstar Black Caviar arrives in Britain
By Tom Kerr racingpost.com AUSTRALIAN sprint queen Black Caviar touched down at Heathrow airport, London, just before 5pm on Thursday after a 30-hour journey that began in Melbourne, south Australia. After stops in Singapore and Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, Black Caviar landed at Britain's largest airport on board a Singapore Airlines cargo flight and wearing her specially-designed Lycra compression suit designed to promote blood-flow and muscle recovery. From there she was loaded onto a horse box and transported by road to her home for the next few weeks, the Abington Place Stables in Newmarket, where so many international runners have stayed while preparing for races in Britain. She is due to run in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot on Saturday, June 23, a race for which she is no bigger than 1-2, although those odds are far more generous than usually on offer when she races in Australia. With victory a foregone conclusion in the eyes of many, the debate has already turned to how comprehensive Black Caviar's win will be, and Coral make the unbeaten mare a 6-1 chance to win the Diamond Jubilee by five lengths or more. "Having arrived safely on these shores, Black Caviar looks set to blow the opposition away on her first start outside of Australia when she lines up in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes," said Coral's David Stevens. "Sprinters from down under have proved their worth here in recent years, but Black Caviar brings with her form that is far superior to the likes of Choisir, Takeover Target, Miss Andretti and Scenic Blast, and as far as we're concerned it's not if she wins, but a question of how far she wins by." |
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http://www.brisnet.com
Black Caviar: 21 things to know After a 30-hour trek from Australia, Black Caviar's plane landed at London's famed Heathrow Airport Thursday afternoon. The world's top-ranked sprinter sported a custom-made Lycra compression suit to ease the lengthy journey, which included stops along the way in Singapore and Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. A perfect 21-for-21 over her career, Black Caviar has set a new modern-day international record for the top level of Flat racing. She will seek to add to her legend by racing outside of Australia for the first time. In honor of her arrival, the British Champions Series has compiled 21 facts about her, one for each of her victories: 1. She is the greatest sprinter in the world and the second highest-rated horse on the planet behind the British-trained miler, Frankel. Both horses are set to race in British Champions Series races during Royal Ascot, with Frankel targeting the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes over a mile on the first day, June 19, and Black Caviar the Diamond Jubilee Stakes over six furlongs on the final day, June 23. Black Caviar is then expected to contest the Group 1 July Cup at Newmarket on July 14. 2. The undisputed queen of the turf collected her 20th straight victory in the Group 1 Sportingbet Classic (Robert Sangster) at Morphetville on April 28, beating the previous Australasian record of 19 straight wins at metropolitan tracks, set by both Desert Gold (1915-1917) and Gloaming (1919-1921) almost 100 years ago. 3. That 20th victory also broke the modern-day international record for the top level of Thoroughbred racing set by the brilliant United States-based mare, Zenyatta, who scored 19 consecutive wins before tasting defeat in her 20th and final start. Black Caviar subsequently made it 21 out of 21 in the Group 1 Goodwood at Morphetville on May 12. 4. Her fastest 200-meter (one furlong) split is :9.98 between the 600 and 400-meter mark in the Group 1 Lightning Stakes (her 19th win) earlier this year. She's the first horse in Australia to break 10 seconds for a furlong in an official Thoroughbred race, giving her a top speed of 72.14 km/h or 45.09 mph. 5. Eleven of her 21 victories have been in Group 1 races, the highest class of Thoroughbred race, and she has won over five furlongs (1,000 meters) five times, six furlongs (1,200 meters) 15 times and seven furlongs (1,400 meters) once. However, she has never run outside Australia before, so testing herself against the best in Europe on her next start at Royal Ascot is a very brave step to take for her connections and will secure her international superstar status forever if she is successful. 6. Black Caviar cost A$210,000 (about £132,000 at current rates) and she has now won more than £3.6 million in prize money with a potentially very lucrative breeding career ahead of her once she retires. To illustrate this, her half-sister (by the sire Redoute's Choice) just sold for A$2.6 million (£1.64 million) at the Inglis Easter Yearling Sale -- a record price for a yearling filly in Australia. 7. She has won her 21 races by a combined total of exactly 70 lengths -- about 560 feet or 170 meters, or the equivalent of about 13 London buses! 8. She has started odds-on favorite in the betting on every occasion except her first ever race on April 18, 2009 at Flemington in Melbourne. The shortest price she started at was 1-33 meaning that if you had put £33 on her to win, your return would have been just £34! The local totalisator has taken numerous $100,000+ bets on her, the biggest being $200,000 at $1.04 when she won the Sportingbet Classic to record her 20th win -- the punter's profit was just $8,000. She is currently available with British bookmakers at 4-9 for the Diamond Jubilee Stakes and a huge number of Australians are expected to back her. 9. She is trained by Peter Moody at his stable at Caulfield Racecourse in Victoria, Australia. 10. Luke Nolen has been her jockey in 18 of her 21 races, missing only her first two starts (when she was ridden by 16-year-old apprentice Jarrad Noske) and her first Group 1 victory in the Patinack Farm Classic in November 2010 (when Ben Melham was in the saddle as Nolen was suspended). 11. Black Caviar is owned by a group of lifelong friends, Colin and Jannene Madden, Gary and Kerryn Wilkie and Neil Werrett, several of whom go right back to nursery school. They came up with the idea of buying a racehorse when enjoying their annual holiday together on a houseboat on the Murray River, not far from Adelaide. Neil Werrett knew Peter Moody, who, as it happens, had just come back from the sales with a big black yearling filly. They agreed to buy her, adding two others to their syndicate to spread the costs -- Jannene Madden's sister, Pam Hawkes, and another friend, David Taylor. 12. The wife of part-owner, David Taylor, was dead set against her husband buying a share of the horse, so he had to do it behind her back -- a brave move that paid off big-time and all is forgiven now! 13. Aussie Rules football star, Dale Thomas, who plays for top AFL team Collingwood, had a bet with David Taylor that Black Caviar wouldn't win 20 consecutive races. Thomas has now fulfilled the terms of the bet by having an image of Black Caviar tattooed on his backside! 14. It was part-owner Pam Hawkes who came up with the Black Caviar's name. The seafood lover explained: "Black Caviar's grandmother was called Scandanavia. Helsinge, the name of her mother, is in Scandinavia and that's where the salmon live. It made sense. Besides my husband and children, Black Caviar is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It is a dream come true to have this beautiful horse." 15. It was Gary and Kerryn Wilkie's daughter who came up with the jockey's very appropriate colors -- salmon pink with black dots to represent the caviar! Gary said about Black Caviar: "You can't imagine it. It's a little surreal. You see the way she affects people, this animal we have equity in, and you just think, 'How lucky am I'?" 16. When Black Caviar is running, racedays become something of a logistics challenge. The owners, their families and extended friends regularly push the number of attendees up to over 60, but that's nothing compared with the party that will be at Royal Ascot when she is due to contest her next race, the Diamond Jubilee Stakes. It will number more than 150 people! 17. Black Caviar, who was bottle fed as a foal, was born on August 18, 2006. Her sire (father) is Bel Esprit and her dam (mother) Helsinge. She is known in her stable as Nelly. 18. Her height is 16.2 hands (5 foot 4.8 inches or 164.6 centimeters). 19. She loves swimming and going to the beach. 20. She has a massive fan base in Australia, where she is revered as the greatest racehorse since the legendary Phar Lap died 80 years ago, and her own range of merchandise, from T-shirts and baseball caps to ties and key rings. One of her fans made a 30-plus-hour round trip from Chicago to see her record her 18th victory at Caulfield, staying in Australia for only 24 hours, while thousands of Australians are expected to go racing when she runs in the United Kingdom. 21. After her British foray, she will return to Australia to be prepared for the all-important Spring Carnival in Melbourne, where her legions of fans will be looking forward to welcoming "The Wonder from Down Under" back to Australian racing. |
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on a serious note,hopefully she's pulled through her 30 hour trip in excellent health, so enjoy the queen of the turf, its good for UK racing having 2 of a kind on your shores at the one time.
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HOORAY,my evens is home and dry.
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FFS megsy.........have you not heard.........seriously..........suffered DVT?
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Sorry..........keyboard error DMJ.............Dirty Max Jealousy.
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Black Caviar arriving at Newmarket https://twitter.com/FlyIRT/status/210835899410419713/photo/1
And in her stable at Newmarket https://twitter.com/FlyIRT/status/210847955597524993/photo/1 |
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You are totally obsessed with me.
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Black Caviar touches down at London's Heathrow Airport
by: Angus Hohenboken http://www.heraldsun.com.au BLACK Caviar has landed at Heathrow Airport and cleared immigration - after being ordered to strip naked - ahead of her date with destiny at the Royal Ascot races. The unbeaten Australian champion racehorse arrived in style in a cutting-edge compression suit, but was ordered to remove the garment soon after her arrival. Horses, like humans, have passports. But instead of mug shots they display a two-dimensional diagram that highlights their unique markings, so quarantine vets have to check their bare hair to verify their identities. After 30 hours in transit, most travellers would have baulked at the request. But six-year-old Black Caviar took it all in her stride. Supervising Animal Health Officer at the airport's Animal Reception Centre Ross Hayes said the mare passed through border security without breaking a sweat. "She wore the suit on arrival but the vet had to take it off so she could verify the markings in association with Black Caviar’s passport," Mr Hayes said. "She travelled very well, she wasn’t sweating or anything, she was really calm when we unloaded her, really calm." The unbeaten sprinter is in the United Kingdom to try to push her winning streak to 22 races in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 23. She was last night being chauffeured to her new lodgings at the historic Abington House stables in Newmarket. Abington, currently owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa, was formerly the property of legendary trainer Geoff Wragg. Speaking from the stables last night Abington trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam said there was a huge buzz surrounding the mare’s arrival at the home of English racing. For the Melbourne ex-pat, who is the daughter of former Australian Liberal leader Andrew Peacock, the presence of the horse touted as the next Phar Lap was a particularly proud moment. The mare’s neighbours in the 1889-built stables will be Australian Ortensia and Joy and Fun from Hong Kong. "It’s a thrill for anyone who’s involved in horses," Ms Chapple-Hyam said. "She’s done a remarkable record 21 wins and I think the British crowd will be privileged to see her run at Ascot." Past Australian Ascot winners Choisir, Miss Andretti, Takeover Target and Scenic Blast all underwent training at Abington. Security guards have been employed to watch over the stables with no one allowed in without first passing identification checks. Back at Heathrow Mr Hayes, who was busy cleaning up after the superstar racehorse, said he planned to watch the race, but added that he would not be placing a bet. "There’s no point having a punt now, the odds will be horrific," Mr Hayes said. "Sometimes we get a bit of a tip off the grooms when they come through, but this one’s not going to be worth it." International Racing Bureau spokesman Adrian Beaumont said the interest in Black Caviar was intense. "It’s driving me mad. It’s non-stop. Every media organisation I can think of are ringing me up asking for the latest news and chances to see her and so forth," he said. "I’ve been working with the international racing bureau representing Ascot for 30 years now and all my career I’ve never had so much interest in a horse as I’m getting with Black Caviar." |
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After her British foray, she will return to Australia to be prepared for the all-important Spring Carnival in Melbourne, where her legions of fans will be looking forward to welcoming "The Wonder from Down Under" back to Australian racing.
yes the world global sprinters series the GRP 1 PATINACK not a moonee valley night race called the william read |
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She didn't have a great nights sleep...All the other horses were neighing all night..."Here comes Frankel"
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still very wet in england isnt it.
race now just a couple of weeks away.... Has she got any form on heavy ground? i dont mean an aussie heavy 10, i mean a European Heavy 100!! |