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Black Caviar injured in Ascot victory

Mike Hedge

06:25 AEST Mon Jun 25 2012

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Should Black Caviar be retired?

A possible explanation for Black Caviar's slightly below par winning performance at Ascot has been revealed in post-race examination.

But trainer Peter Moody and the mare's owners agree the injuries are not career-threatening.

"It's the same sort of injuries she's had before," Moody said.

"She's tender up in her hind-quarter, it seems to be soft tissue damage which isn't unusual for her."

Black Caviar underwent precautionary x-rays after her surprisingly narrow victory in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot on Saturday which revealed no issues.

But a chiropractor who examined her at her Newmarket stable later found she was sore and tender in an area equivalent to the human quadricep.

Both Moody and Black Caviar's owners agree the injury and her slightly below-par run are no reason to think about retirement, despite the trainer floating the suggestion after the race.

Black Caviar won the Diamond Jubilee by a head at odds of 1-6.

A measure of the performance was provided one race later when the modestly performed handicapper Dandy Boy won the Wokingham Stakes over the same 1200m course in a time haf a second faster than Black Caviar while carrying three kilograms more.

Moody also said Black Caviar, unbeaten in 22 races, was unusually listless on Sunday morning and suggested her four weeks in quarantine were likely to be a great help in her recovery.

It is expected she will be put back into training on return to Australia and be set for the Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) at Flemington in the spring, having won the race for the past two years.

Where does Black Caviar's win rank in Australian sport?
Should the mighty mare be retired?

User comments

No let him go wild, then again give him what all other bread winners and employed personel and then let him go. He might bring up a decent population of race goers and temp a change of fashion sense at carnivale. Cheers Big Earses

To Ned Kelly.SPOT ON... with everything you said, I fully agree. And on a lighter note, geez Id love to buy her 1st foal, but as a horse lover for my entire lifetime and with a childhood teenage years grew up at stables and race tracks, Id NEVER race her offspring, no amount of money would entice me to do that to a horse no matter the pedigree!! Stay safe Black Caviar.

Just a quick note and a small correction. Black Caviar is magnificent. I really don't care how or why her injury was caused, I only hope she can recover from it and get some much deserved time off. She has had an arduous (sp) tough schedule and some downtime would really give her a good break. Will she race again? If it's not in her best interest health and age wise I would say no. The last thing anyone would want is the need for another race resulting in her injurying herself badly or needing to be euthanized because she breaks an ankle, leg etc. It's a chance every owner and every trainer is all too aware of. Do we need to see her race again? Not really. She has nothing more to achieve or prove so why do it? What does it accomplish? More money for the owners? I think they would agree she has given them a lifestyle they could only ever dream of. To satisfy a bloodlust from the public? Really? And lastly, mares DO NOT go to stud. STALLIONS go to stud. MARES are covered.

It is time for the heroic mare Black Caviar to be rewarded for her international efforts and she needs to now be retired. The whipping of the horse was just cruel as it was the fault of the jockey who rode her. unbelievable that an International star horse like Black Caviar could have a mistake made like that. they are very intellligent animals horses and it would have been her understanding that the race had been won when all of a sudden she is whipped into going faster again. No wonder she is injured. Please retire this horse - she deserves this.

While the owners got all the glory, this gorgeous horse who gave her all for her rider, got all the pain, her experience at Ascot was the complete opposite to her owners. Black Caviar is racing on feet that have been badly damaged by traditional shoeing horsekeeping dietary practices. They are distorted, they are dysfunctional, they are pitiful. This is why she should be retired because to keep racing her would put her at huge risk of a major musculo skeletal breakdown which would break the hearts of the whole of Australia especially mine. So sad that she stand on her bad feet all the way to England on the plane and now back to Australia. She will be so glad to get back to familiar surroundings. The trip was not for her benefit.

Retire now - go out a winner

im not sure how people think she was wipped to death "i sugest they have a closer look " he was showing her the whip but didnt hit her.

She should go to Choisir as a stallion another Champion from Australia when it comes time to breed her.What a horse it would be !!!!

Why in the world would you retire her? the owners look like they dont need the money from her offspring, they will never own another like her, let her continue!! im sure they wont run her if she is lame, injured or no longer interested in it. the people close to her love her to much to hurt her reputation or more importantly hurt her! let her race!!! Has the world gone completely mad? she is a race horse, bred to race, shes fairly good at it! Race on i say 'Nelly' Race on!

I agree with toodation, she needs to come back here a short spell and get fit again and do the spring carnaval and then retire to stud to have her as a absolutly stand out top class mare, she already is but it would be icicing on the cake and show the world that winning by an inch is not what she does.