Owner wants Sydney to get double shot of Caviar..

[Horrie Is God]

More scared talk from the team behind Frankel..


http://www.skyracing.com.au/news/article.php?id=10238

Frankel team not expecting Caviar clash..

LONDON Feb 21 2012

Teddy Grimthorpe would be "very surprised" were Frankel and Black Caviar to meet at Royal Ascot.

Black Caviar stretched her unbeaten record to 19 at the weekend, but the Australian sensation was racing over five furlongs (1000m), having run over seven furlongs (1400m) the week before.

The six-furlong (1200m) Golden Jubilee Stakes has been the long-held plan for Black Caviar should she travel to England in the summer, although she is believed likely to get an entry in the Queen Anne Stakes over a mile (1600m).

Sir Henry Cecil has stated his intent on stepping Frankel up to 10 furlongs (2000m) this season, but he may still run in the Queen Anne after he reappears at that trip in the Lockinge at Newbury in May.

"Black Caviar is clearly exceptional, but I can't speak for them regarding what race she will run in at Ascot. I did speak to Peter Moody (her trainer) at Flemington but only briefly," Grimthorpe, owner Prince Khalid Abdullah's racing manager, said.

"If it happens, it happens, but it feels like we've got slightly different agendas.

"Sir Henry is looking at stretching Frankel this year. We hope to start off in the Lockinge and then we have two options at Royal Ascot. Either the Queen Anne or the Prince of Wales's.

"I can understand there is tremendous goodwill out there for the two to get together.

"One is the best horse in the southern hemisphere and one is the best horse in the northern hemisphere - they are the two best horses in the world.

"But we don't want to mess up our season for the sake of one race.

"If we do decide to run in the Queen Anne and Black Caviar runs in it also, then so be it.

"But Sir Henry may decide that a mile and a quarter (2000m) is the way for him this season.

"It would be a great clash, but I'd be very surprised were it to happen."



Nick Robson - PAA

 

[Horrie Is God]

Agreed. Both horses should be able to win three legs of the Global Sprint Challenge (obviously by avoiding eachother). The races you have outlined are the Takeover Target path which Hay List should attempt. Worth squillions too. Japan and Honkers both have a first place prize of around a million dollars.

McNair seems to be favouring our option..

http://www.racenet.com.au/news/776/77635.asp

No Newmarket Handicap for Hay List in 2012..

Nic Ashman
Tuesday, 21 February 2012

The connections of Hay List say the hulking sprinter won't contest next month's Group I Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington.

Hay List was awesome in his return last Saturday when stretching world champion sprinter Black Caviar to her limits in the Lightning Stakes.

The pair locked horns over the final 600 metres recording mouth-watering sectionals that left a huge Flemington crowd gasping.

Between the 600 metres and the 400 metres, Hay List, who was returning from a spell following a life threatening leg infection, ran the scintillating time of 10.04 seconds.

It forced Black Caviar to produce something special, which she did. The mare clocked 9.98 seconds for the same sectional.

"It was beyond freakish. She is something out of this world," Hay List's part owner Peter Davenport said.

"For him to be able to do that first-up makes us all so happy. We knew he was well but you never know until they go out there and do it."

Trainer John McNair said Hay List had come through the run in good order but said he was in no rush to single out his next start.

"If he doesn't race for another five weeks, I don't think that would be a bad thing," McNair said.

"Our plan is to race him throughout the year without a spell so the longer he has between runs the better."

Davenport conceded the Hay List team were somewhat dictated to by what Peter Moody does with Black Caviar but said the son of Statue Of Liberty would be given his chance on the international stage.

"I think between him and her [Black Caviar] they could take out all the international sprint races. It would be great if Australia could win a few races instead of just one or two," he said.

"In saying that, it would be awesome to see the two of them rumble again up the big Royal Ascot straight.

"Some horses improve lengths when they travel and others go backwards so it would present a totally new playing field for both of them.

"We've got nothing to lose on that stage."

Davenport and McNair said Hay List could have his next run in the Group I William Reid Stakes (1200m) at Moonee Valley on March 23.

Davenport said the Group II Challenge Stakes (1100m) at Warwick Farm on March 31 was a race he'd "love to win again" after the gelding took out the event in 2011.

Apart from Royal Ascot Davenport suggested other countries "were on the radar" for Hay List in 2012.

"There's Dubai and Singapore. The thing is we want to keep him running throughout the year so we'll listen to John [McNair] and take it one step at a time," he said.

 

[Spot On]

Good stuff Horrie. If they travel well, target different races and keep their form they will clean up and make a shit load of cash.

 

[Xfactor1979]

To quote Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell

Black Caviar:

"A Problem gambler's dream, the kind of horse you can put your house on"