Posts on social media had accused her owners of putting money above Black Caviar’s wellbeing after the champion mare died a day before her 18th birthday.
Thoroughbred Breeders NSW president Hamish Esplin has defended the owners of Black Caviar after social media posts suggested they had sacrificed the champion mare’s wellbeing in the pursuit of an intensive breeding program.
“I would estimate that close to 100 per cent of every dollar spent by a breeder, like the owners of Black Caviar, post-racing would be spent purely trying to keep the animal healthy and fit. They want them to live a long and healthy life for as long as possible. Malone and those closest to her are shattered at the loss of the great mare, who was like a member of his family.
Big winning margins showed the gulf in class between the mare and her top-class rivals, who would in turn go on to beat the rest by big margins once she retired.Hay List would win three times at group 1 level, including a weight-carrying record in the Newmarket, while Buffering took five group 1 races after Black Caviar bowed out, including an Al Quoz at Dubai.
“She saved me,” said jockey Luke Nolen, who had dropped his hands on her in the final climb to the finish. Hay List skipped four lengths clear coming up the Randwick rise and McNair’s vision seemed set to become reality – until the big mare started to chase.
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