Black Caviar ‘quite sore’ after Diamond Jubilee heroics

Black Caviar successfully passed the Royal Ascot test, but not without some consequences (Frank Sorge/Horsephotos.com)

Trainer Peter Moody dismissed any retirement talk regarding Black Caviar, who
was found to have sustained soft tissue injuries during Saturday’s Group 1
Diamond Jubilee Stakes success at Royal Ascot. Following the unbeaten mare’s
dramatic head success from Moonlight Cloud in the six-furlong feature, her
conditioner had suggested that it could have been her last race, but he seemed
intent on moving ahead with her program Sunday.

“I have had my vets and chiropractors take some precautionary X-rays of Black
Caviar this morning,” Moody said from her Newmarket base of Abington Place
Stables.

“They have come back fine, but she has some soft tissue damage. I think it is
called the quadricep muscle where the main problem is and she is quite sore
behind. She’ll now spend four weeks in quarantine, and then when we get her home
we will give her three months off and get her ready for the Spring Carnival in
Melbourne in November.

“She will be prepared for another crack at the (Group 1) Patinack Farm
Classic at Flemington, which she has won for the past two years.”