Black Caviar will not be running in this weekend’s Futurity Stakes at Caulfield as trainer Peter Moody gives her a well-earned rest in preparation for the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Moody met with Black Caviar’s owners on Tuesday night, when it was decided she would have an easy two months before embarking on her date with destiny in the six-furlong Group One on June 23.
“Black Caviar won’t be chasing her record 20th consecutive win in Saturday’s Futurity Stakes at Caulfield, or next month’s Newmarket Handicap, or, for that matter, in Dubai – or anywhere else for the next two months,” Moody has written in News Ltd papers.
“There’s nothing wrong with her. To the contrary, she’s at the top of her game.
“But it’s all geared around having her at her peak when she flies across to England for the Diamond Jubilee Stakes.
“That’s the Royal Ascot race the owners have had their sights on for some time and everything is being tailored like a Savile Row suit to have her cherry-ripe for that race on June 23.
“I’ve got no doubt that Black Caviar could have gone to the Futurity on Saturday and just won as easily as she did in the Orr Stakes earlier in the month, but it would have been her fourth run in five weeks.
“I had to look at the bigger picture.
“I’m looking to give Black Caviar her shot at stretching her winning streak to a perfect 20 in either Adelaide or Brisbane before we head off to England.
“Either way she will have two and a half weeks back at my Caulfield stables before flying to England, three weeks before the Diamond Jubilee.
“And from there we get her ready to take on the Poms at Royal Ascot.
“I can’t wait – I reckon Black Caviar will show them a thing or two.”
