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this is the dream of every breeder who
ever conjured together the bloodlines
and produced a foal it can take years of
a horse's career for it fully to reveal
what it's capable of there are no
guarantees and cross your fingers and
hope the reason the industry wakes
before everybody else every morning of
the year is the promise of a Black
Caviar
it's the wish of anybody who's ever been
to a yearling sale and put their hand up
for a bid
it's the challenge fee every trainer
who's ever let a juvenile rip into the
wind for the first time at full gallop
Black Caviar taken Australian racing
back in time to its glory days and that
was never more apparent than her final
two runs on home soil all of Adelaide
turned out with this sense of
expectation this sense of formality but
this sense of celebration in it it was
truly something to behold
race fans packed more for Ville to catch
a glimpse of the famous race Hall now
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't a
little bit more tentative today get you
know a world-record attack the
excitement surrounding the attempt at a
20th consecutive winners building
thereof and the most anticipated race
this century is underway there on the
home turn the anticipation is starting
to build Black Caviar she's better than
a perfect 10 14 straight 15 straight 16
straight 17 straight win number 18 but
giving up 19 straight jeez
put it over 20
Racing has been part of Australian
culture since the very formation of our
society there were thoroughbreds on the
first fleet and the first race meeting
here officially was staged in 1810 for
the unbroken lineage of champion
racehorses on these shores none had ever
produced the magical streak of twenty
and now Black Caviar goes back to the
mother country to the very heart of the
sport
the wind on the place 22:9 ro LS what's
one of the bucket lists destinations for
people in racing bit of royal pomp and
ceremony the Queen comes down the center
of the track in the carriage later this
week Black Caviar will contest the
feature sprint of the royal meeting it's
the Diamond Jubilee stakes and they're
raising for history and prestige there's
nothing to match royal asketh she'll
come up against the best sprinters in
Europe on all that we know and her
status is the best sprinter in the world
and the best sprinter of all time she
should be winning this race
there will be emotional I think for even
the stranger will be sitting up late at
night to watch Black Caviar win
hopefully win and and but--but the
problems at their own game
horse racing at the most hallowed track
in the world
she'll be a name as strongly linked with
racing as fallout as always been
since filer has probably been a million
horses born in Australia so you could
probably safely say that Black Caviar
won any minute
the synergies are miserable and it is
one of the most famous pieces of footage
in an Australian archive is file that
being winched up on the ship as he heads
over for his career-defining win in the
agua caliente oh please refer to the
contract right Christopher Columbus he's
going to discover America and now we
know that he never came back
it cost him his life that trip the great
debut was the Australian duty
viola one of the handsomest parts has
ever seen on an American track I'm sure
in some ways her trainer Peter moody
would prefer that she could race her
whole life here and establish these
records but we have reached a moment
where he has a world champion and it's
time to go and confront and beat the
world to forever enhance and protect her
legacy
it's just so exciting Rick's going to
get a jacket made with a black jacket
with salmon riding on the back and says
I started it dot dot dot
rick jamison has reshaped the industry
in Australia
he has bred the best horse of our
lifetime the best horse since farlap
he's made his money out of racing but
not out of horses he's Harry the horror
well I own a hiring company we duel up
major hiring at the Melbourne Cup
Carnival the Caulfield Cup Carnival and
then through that you know you get to
know the horse people and yeah just
slowly slowly I got a bit of an interest
he's an interesting character himself
chain-smoker wears his jeans knock about
sort of character but he's always had a
passion for breeding racehorses
I just wanted to breed great a great
horse if I could you know breed and race
a Melbourne Cup when I would have been
my plan Rick Johnson hates the spotlight
you'll hate the fact that I'm even so
it's saying his name on TV you know he
hates a spotlight but as I said to him
you know there's people out there want
to know they want to know the story
they're intrigued by the Black Caviar
story and they're and I want to know
everything to do with it Rick and I met
about 20 years ago he decided that he
was going to take this industry by the
neck and and try and reshape it and I
thought oh here we go again here's
another one
I want to take her for a little walk
please Rick would give you a list of
horses that he'd selected on his theory
in the early days and you'd get it on
wanna throw it straight in the bin and
then I'd go around look at these horses
praying the next one is gonna be a nice
one
I started reading 15 years ago I think
it took probably 10 years to learn and I
think the last 5 years we've taken a big
jump forward every night probably for 20
years he would study pedigrees look at
international catalogs and find out
reasons why horses would run and go back
to six and seven eight generations and
so he developed his own theory I don't
think I can tell you what Rick Johnson's
basic breeding theory is because I don't
know then he wouldn't tell me well in
2005 I went to the Sydney yelling sale
with my friend Peter Ford we looked
around for a couple of years couldn't
find one in frustration I flew home to
Melbourne Peter continued to search and
came up with an unnamed and raced horse
bring me in Melbourne I looked at the
pedigree and it was a must buy for us
and we went ahead and bought it one of
the other interested parties he was on
his way to Sydney to bid on her and he's
plane got stuck in a holding pattern as
he tells me and he said if I had a been
here you wouldn't have got it so I
suppose that's just part of the part of
things that happen you know you you get
horses for a reason
so for the sum of $115,000 this big
injury-prone unraised mare is given the
name he'll singe and taken to the
northern victoria property of rick
jamison and that's the genesis of the
Black Caviar story so this is Black
Caviar mum Helsing I do remember this
mare when she arrived because she was so
impressive
from my Horseman's point of view when
you look at how stingy just see a
perfectly formed female horse not the
most beautiful Muir you'd see you know
but but just had everything that had a
temperament had bone and had
confirmation quality and really nicely
balanced and I thought what a great
brood mare prospect at the time I
thought she was a difficult me to mate
and that can happen and I spent you know
a lot of time trying to make effective
meetings we came up with the Bel Esprit
as that as the best mating for her but
Bel Esprit was unfashionable but he was
absolutely gifted the story as a guys
really is that nobody wanted it was left
for sale after the options were over
there's a lot of luck in the Black
Caviar story with father Bel Esprit been
a $9,000 yearling the majority of cheap
horses are that occults become a little
bit difficult to handle and majority of
those horses are castrated Bel Esprit
was imperfect and that's why he was
cheap but it was the intangible ability
that he had and he was a natural
racehorses that's why he didn't get
gilded along the way because he took to
racing which with such a verb he's gone
for the whip on Bell Esprit railings
clear most people have never liked Bel
Esprit
legs he had a very very awkward running
action if it would be the nicest thing
he could probably say but but a cover
ground and covered ground with great
speed Bel Esprit holding on it bellows
players want it Bel Esprit was an
instant hit in racing circles not just
because of his ability but because he
was connected to sporting royalty in his
ownership was the legendary AFL coach
Kevin Sheedy we started a cult following
because I mean Attell Esprit hadn't
really been beaten in in his first year
and when you see what happened Black
Caviar obviously back heavy ass going on
to magnificent success but belfry had a
part of that for a while so for a nine
thousand dollar purchase to go on to be
a leading sire that's a rags-to-riches
tale of the two
the similarities between Black Caviar
and what Bel Esprit has passed on to her
is his masculinity and strength
he's got a great ass a great hind
quarter and a very good shoulder and if
you have if you're fortunate enough to
see Black Caviar she's got an ass like a
bus and that phenomenal shoulder that
that Bel Esprit has as well so you can
see where all the power comes from the
absolute amazing thing about her as if
she'd never get her looks to be going
more than about half pace well this is a
very special paddock back in 2006 at
5:20 in the morning we had a very
special foal in this very paddock and it
was Black Caviar anyone might have owned
Black Caviar but it was leading trainer
Peter Moody who had his hand up for two
hundred and ten thousand dollars at the
yearling sales 170 there 170 170 Pete
your turn the euro went to the Melbourne
premier sales when I saw Black Caviar I
instantly fell in love with her at 210
done well done I didn't have a client in
mind but I quickly got on the phone and
ring a couple up and I said we only want
a fast one so they took me at my word
I made sure we had a fast one I paid a
moody thank you very much Pete Rohith
they liked with that filly she just had
a presence about a an action about her
every time she took astride every part
of her body moves it's like walking down
the beach and seeing certain parts of
someone's Anatomy wiggle or that and you
just can't help yourself you get a turn
around have a look
to this day he doesn't regret selling
buy caviar or says he doesn't but that
he truly honestly is so happy for the
people at owner I think yeah I would
think he has great respect from his
fellow breeders of being able to breed
the best horse in the world we kept
telling each other we made the best
horse in the world
the preparation has been meticulous
Peter moody had countered back from the
dates at Ascot how fit did she need to
be and that meant a second run in
Adelaide Black Caviar has arrived safely
in Adelaide prime to extend her unbeaten
race record to 21 consecutive wins she's
in familiar territory now she knows her
way around so I'm very happy with her 21
had a special feel to it cuz this was
her Australian farewell for the time
being
great mares going to lead there's no
pace on at all the good wood was the
softest win of her career and just for a
flick maybe at about the 200 we're we're
gonna rock who ran second reached full
momentum down the outside and Nolan
wouldn't budge he was carrying out his
instructions to an absolute t Nolan sits
quietly down down the outside we're
gonna rocks coming home we'll look and
he looked from one to the other and
thought does he know does he know this
other horse is coming but that's how
cautious they were with her there to
have her ready for the arduous flight
and then for the preparation in England
they wanted the softest possible wind
caviar the e-tron superstar of the world
and that's 21 tonight I'm not a PI no
don't worry about margins or someone she
buddy wins that's all
we put on a show for everyone it's never
been about margins and records she's got
the job done and the happy days
and in the after the owners who were a
little quite taken aback but curious as
to why it was so soft they were telling
the story that Peter moody had told them
he'd told Nolan if you hit her I'll hit
you when you get back I've been coming
to the races since early 50s and bookie
for 46 years and well I'll remember and
now at least the equal of vine so
probably be the equal best sprinter I've
ever seen
compare Black Caviar too far lap but
it's not in the racing world we compare
her to vain well anyone who can remember
vain racing is just I don't like we'd
seen anything since him until black
ouvea but on top of the rise vain was a
good six or seven lengths in front in
the late 60s vain dominated sprint
racing in Australia for decades no one
would allow another horse to be put on
the same pedestal as vain until now and
the lovely part of the story is there's
a blood connection between Fame and
Black Caviar way they go and look Nolan
hasn't released the brakes on the Great
Bear out she goes she's three lengths in
front now the Wonder Man the appearance
of vane in black Caviar's pedigree on
both sides is probably the reason I
believe that she is so fast in layman's
terms on her father's side vane is the
great-grandfather and then on the mother
side vane is the great-great-grandfather
so we're going back away but in
thoroughbred breeding it's all
relatively close Vayne is coming away
from special girl down past the Lydia
races away three lengths vain who was
bred by my grandfather from day one was
a horse that had a lot of media
attention cuz of his speed he's natural
starting ability just get out there and
fly
when was the first horse my grandfather
didn't have castrated and kept him as a
stallion he saw something in him that
he'd been obviously waiting for a long
time to see because all the previous
relations had all been killed
so this is where you see things
reinforcing through the generations and
Australia's great sprinter begat
Australia's greatest sprinter bring
racehorses is an absolute gamble there's
so many factors that are required to get
a horse to the track and you need luck
to go 100 percent your way the breeder
of Black Caviar Rick Jamison is
effectively living the dream right now
Blake Avia's greatness has now spread
from those directly involved with her
those who have been blessed to have a
share to train to ride to those who have
been involved with their breeding and
any horse with a connection to Black
Caviar will be instantly recognizable I
think to the generations that follow got
that I just woke up look Megan is the
horse manager if you like she runs all
of the horses on the farm she's the most
wonderful person she dedicates every
waking moment to the horses this is the
yiling half brother to black heavier and
by reduced choice and yeah we think he's
gonna be a race horse look he's got old
on me it's cheeky tariqas xing relented
he said it's not just breeding it's the
mere you bought me
Hellsing I think is turning into a
special mare she each of her files and
she's had five now she stamps them all
it's like they come out of a mold
Helsing has been a great mare she stands
on her own since the history of what's
happened in the last couple of years
because she's produced some beautiful
horses and they've been sold at the best
price you could ever get thoroughbred
brood mares produce one foul a year hell
singes third foal went on to race is all
too hard by the time he hit the yearling
sales Black Caviar had won her first 11
starts he went for more than a million
dollars all to hard Black Caviar little
brother in gate seven racing in the size
they focus on the family at that point
was enormous I mean we had Black Caviar
doing all the wonderful things that she
was doing and then of course out of
nowhere came all too hard down the
outsiders all too hard starting a run on
fairly well engine this year all too
hard was the revelation all too hard on
the outside starts to swap them and
spread it straight past and boy he's
good came out when his first three races
in dominant style before being narrowly
beaten at his fourth start so the focus
really came back down on to the family
and on to the mere and of course the
next fall ladies gentlemen don't think
back how often is the first achievers
poorly they're the Easter sales in
Sydney would boast to sell the best
horse flesh on the Australian calendar
and in lot 200 they had that else
injures next foal the one to follow all
too hard this is a big car mistake
This Is It this is where you started in
the business book where you just said
stick close I need to get through this
oh you won't believe how nervous I am
you know after a while you just get a
little numb and I'll wait and see I
think I think the market will take care
of it
ladies the other one I doubt there's
anything that I can say that can enhance
the pedigree for the filling
just come in the ring in front of us it
was if the last diamond on earth was up
for grabs and people just had to have it
at any price in the world we have buyers
from all over the world with interested
in buying her obviously because she's so
well related a half-sister to world
champion Black Caviar and very very
promising racehorse all to have what
fueled the incredible sale was Rick
Jameson's
promise his vow that this was the last
time a filly from hell singe would be
offered for sale you can't buy Black
Caviar if you want a piece of this
legacy of this dynasty here it is and
she went for 2.6 million dollars
lays the numbers were going up I think
once it passed the reserve really it was
a blur to me you know I wasn't I wasn't
focused on the numbers I was probably in
a happy space right you're like just a
little little minute Rick you know
wanted to thank everybody involved he
had sort of a bit of a thank-you speech
I think he wanted to give and yeah that
was that was the highlight for me yeah
that was amazing yeah right back to the
start there was Peter Ford found Zamir
well done Pete everybody knows everybody
knows he found the mierqis he tells
everyone well you don't know someone
that's - then came Black Caviar and
Peter Moody then came the fall Verna
folded down fantastic and then the foal
came to the farm and I want to show you
what we got
and then came beggin now this is what
this story's all about you saw that
Megan everyday went out and rubbed its
tendons and loosen its legs and got it
standing properly and she nursed it and
nursed earth and Leicester she was bit
by bit she made his horse
so this stories about meeting that was a
bit of an outpouring I suppose it was
after the sale I think that the stress
of the lead into the sales was enormous
and as much as I carried it on the farm
Megan carried it it was quite emotional
for all of us I think yeah relief
biggest relief just to have it done and
her sold and it all in one paste it was
good for me the challenge now I want to
do it again
we sent Helsing back to Bella spray
again this year
and successfully she's involved we had
her scanned and she's carrying a filly
so there will be a full sister to Black
Caviar so that's fairly exciting that's
it oh that's it
she's having a pregnancy test today so
we can make sure everything's ticking
along normally we probably monitor her
pregnancy closer than anyone else just
because obviously it's a pretty big deal
if you know if any things went
pear-shaped the eye it's the head of the
field so she gets monitored with
ultrasound routinely along with a few
other choice mares we're just and just
checking the placenta looks normal and
that the Falls alive and doing
everything normally oh it's always a
relief when we check her and
everything's alive and normal yeah now
we just got a month-by-month basis so
yeah it's all good rick jamison has
accomplished the dream he's bred a world
champion thoroughbred and he's got the
beginnings of a racing dynasty now the
story needs a conclusion he'll singes
most famous foal Black Caviar has made
the 30 hour trip to London she flew
first-class clad in a tailor-made
compression suit so everything that can
be done has been done and now this
moment of destiny
draws near
I'll believe the Ascot week and of
course whenever black area rounds I get
terribly nervous roaring for one of the
threats of the world into the strategy I
know now the couple of days leading into
into Ascot I will be a bit of a wreck I
don't sleep and I don't eat and my
friends don't talk to me because they
know I won't talk to them and when she
races and she wins then I'm riding him
but it does it takes a lot from me
we've got to stay back and look after
the horses so we can't go we're getting
a bunch of friends together and we're
going to have a Black Caviar slumber
party here at the farm so that we can
watch the race and sort of be as close
to the action as we can
I'll be right where I am probably just
over there on the couch watching that TV
hoping like hell that she acquits
herself in the manner that we all think
for me Black Caviar is now protected
against defeat none of this can be
raised this turning back of time the
drawing of tens of thousands of people
to racetracks to see one particular
horse the streak twenty one lives
forever whether there's a defeat at the
end of it or not it is the stretch with
in the history of Australian racing it
is a world landmark that can't be taken
away the idea of perfection is cherished
it is sought if she could live up to
that as well that's immortality but
nothing not two feet from here would
reduce the story that we've lived
through
Black Caviar stands poised and away she
bounced beautifully with them
I'm at the to feel long Marc Nolan
starts to ease Black Caviar along she
goes up to claim Solan Krypton factor
Black Caviar she tears the Europeans to
keep up
Black Caviar lengths in front of the
cheeks hanging on moonlight clad with a
lake - it'll let Kevon knows she's
crowned her career at Royal Ascot
hanging on in front of the Queen

this is the dream of every breeder who

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bel esprit

noun

a witty or clever person with a fine mind

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Type of	intellect, intellectual

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abandonment

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