Peter Moody and Luke Nolen made the heartbreaking decision not to fly to NSW to say goodbye to their ailing champion Black Caviar in the days before she died.
The trainer and jockey had booked plane tickets to leave Melbourne after Sandown races on Wednesday night, but decided at the last moment to remember the unbeaten sprinting great for “how she was”., after giving birth to a Snitzel colt. She had been suffering from hoof disease laminitis and was humanely euthanised at the Scone Equine Hospital.
“But we remembered her for what she was for us, rather than going and seeing her, I’m not saying on her deathbed, but when she certainly wasn’t in the best of health.” “When she won her 13th race in Brisbane I actually stupidly said to Sarah my wife, ‘I can’t wait for her to get beat so it just becomes normal’,” he said.
Black Caviar was a big-striding mare who dominated fields from the front. She looked to be loping while the rest of the field was busting a gut. Black Caviar held on to win the Diamond Jubilee at Royal Ascot by a heart-stopping nose, and the Federation Square crowd went wild as Moody and his wonder horse were taken to meet the Queen.
“But to win that race, in honour of the Queen, at the Queen’s own racetrack, and to have her in attendance, I am a long way from a royalist, but it was hard not to be a special moment as well.”
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