Racing: Caviar notches nine in a row

Moody said he preferred to keep Black Caviar in Australia. Photo / Thinkstock

The world is Peter Moody's oyster if he elects to take Black Caviar overseas but even after her effortless win in the Lightning Stakes he is still resisting the temptation.

The unbeaten Black Caviar equalled a long-standing record of successive wins on metropolitan tracks when she recorded her ninth victory at Flemington yesterday.

She shares it with Grand Flaneur, Mollison, Eye Liner and Rancher.

"What do you say. I've lost things to say about her. I think I put it simply on Thursday, 'awesome'," the leading trainer said.

Jockey Luke Nolen hardly had to move on the Bel Esprit mare, sent out $1.28 favourite, who won eased up by 3 lengths from Hay List ($5.50) with speedy filly Warm Love ($81) 1 lengths away third.

"I just said to Luke, travel for as long as you can and hopefully you don't have to ask her for too much," Moody said.

"She got to the clocktower here and he hadn't asked and the others were off the bridle, it was pretty exciting stuff to watch.

"I'm very proud to be a part of what's probably our ambassador for racing here in Australia at the moment. It's exciting, I'm lost for words, I don't know what to say, she's just one hell of a horse.

"She just keeps getting the job done for us and long may she stay sound and we can keep enjoying her here in Australia.

"We want to share her with the people but we want to do the right thing by her as well."

Moody said he preferred to keep Black Caviar in Australia where she can increase her Group One tally from two to seven if she remains unbeaten until the end of the season.

She has five more races scheduled through to May, the next one the $1 million Newmarket Hcp (1200m) at Flemington on March 12.

Gosford trainer John McNair said Hay List would have a rematch with Black Caviar in the Newmarket if the mare gives him at least 1.5kg in weight after having to give her a 2kg advantage under yesterday's weight-for-age conditions.

"He (Nolen) never let the handbrake off her," McNair said. "He was pretty wound up for this but I just have to face facts. She's a freak.

"I came here pretty confident. I believe he's a better horse this preparation than last and his work had been sensational and she still did that to him.

"I'm stunned. That's all you can say, she's a better horse."

Nolen had a grin from ear to ear after winning his first Group One aboard the 4-year-old mare, having missed the ride through suspension when Ben Melham rode her to win the Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington last spring.

"It's a pretty hard feeling to describe, it seems you've got an endless reserve to bank on.

"I felt Glyn's [Schofield] thing [Hay List] creeping to her and she was travelling pretty strongly and I slipped her a bit more rein and she put it beyond doubt pretty quickly."

- AAP