A decade after Black Caviar received the second of her two TJ Smith Stakes titles, Peter Moody and Luke Nolen have turned again the clock, combining with I Want I Win to trump the nation’s finest sprinters.
Chasing a document fourth win in Sydney’s flagship short-course race, Nature Strip went to the entrance and shot clear on the prime of the straight, briefly wanting as if he may pull off the unthinkable.
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However across the 100m mark, the challengers had him lined, I Want I Win ($9) and Giga Kick ($6.50) storming down the skin with the previous holding the Everest winner on the road to attain by a half-length, Mazu ($7 ) a gallant third one other three-quarters of a size away.
Moody mentioned he was assured in I Want I Win early on Saturday morning however that waned when the rain got here.
“I’ve bought to say, I laid down there at 10.30 this morning, the monitor was a great 4 and I used to be a really joyful man,” Moody mentioned.
“I bought up at quarter previous twelve and it was a heavy eight and I did not wish to come to the races.
“I am very proud, he is a bloody good horse.”
The TJ Smith is a particular race to Moody, who began his coaching profession working for his namesake.
The actual fact Black Caviar’s common jockey Nolen was additionally concerned made it extra so, the pair each having confronted profession battles lately.
“I mentioned this ten years in the past and possibly twelve years in the past, it is all the time particular profitable this race as a result of as a 15-year-old I arrived in Bowral Avenue, Kensington on the grasp’s stables, TJ Smith,” he mentioned.
“I believe I’ve received it 3 times now, twice with the plain and now this.
“My little mate ‘Trumby’ (Luke) Nolen. We have each hit just a few dry creeks alongside the best way but it surely’s good to bounce again on a pleasant inexperienced monitor at Randwick.”
Moody mentioned I Want I Win was unlikely to go to the All Aged Stakes as connections eyed an Everest begin within the spring.
Nature Strip held on for fourth and Chris Waller mentioned they’d let the mud settle earlier than making any determination on his racing future.
“Clearly he’s not fairly as dominant as he has been,” Waller mentioned.
“I had a fast chat with James (McDonald) post-race, he mentioned the horse feels discover however is only a bit off his A-game
“There isn’t a suggestion the horse is asking for retirement however Nature Strip comes first, he’ll inform us the place he’s at.
“He has taken care of us so we are going to take care of him.”
– RAS NewsWire
