Aussie sprinting star Black Caviar ran 15 pounds below her official rating in
Australia — the equivalent of five lengths in a sprint — when narrowly winning
Saturday’s Group 1, six-furlong Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot last week.
The British Horseracing Authority handicappers have given her a performance
rating of 117. Black Caviar’s domestic rating going into the race was 132, but
considering she was found to have pulled muscles in her back afterwards, she put
up an extremely gutsy performance to maintain her unbeaten career record which
now stretches to 22 races.
Handicapper took into account the likelihood that if jockey Luke Nolen had
not tried to coast home on the final run to the winning line, she would have
beaten French raiders Moonlight Cloud (115) and Restiadargent (114) by more than
a head and a neck, respectively.
Colour Vision ran to his official rating of 117 when winning the Group 1 Gold
Cup on Thursday from stablemate Opinion Poll (116), while Fallen for You also
ran to 117 when running away with Friday’s Group 1 Coronation Stakes, a dramatic
improvement on her official rating going into the race of 108.
The mighty Frankel, a scintillating 11-length winner in last Tuesday’s Group
1 Queen Anne Stakes, the opening event of the Royal Ascot meet, is the
highest-ranked horse in the world. The unbeaten four-year-old colt registered a
140 in the Queen Anne, the second-highest number ever issued by handicappers for
the British Horseracing Authority, behind only the 141 given to Dancing Brave
for his victory in the 1986 Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe.
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