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Chris Munce slaughtered her in Sydney.

I would love to know Peter Moody's strike rate with first starters, wether they be 2yo-3yo or horse having their first start at 5. He is an outstanding trainer.

Still plenty of promising youngsters to come - Moody
Brad Waters
Sunday, 14 June 2009


Top Caulfield trainer Peter Moody continued his brilliant season with two-year-olds on Saturday but warns punters they may be in for a shock when the new season begins.

Moody has trained 17 two-year-old winners this season at a strike rate of just under 40% but said his sensational juvenile season might not necessarily turn into a domination of three-year-old ranks.

“We’ve had a bit of luck with our two-year-olds this season because we have been very patient with them and let them develop and tell us when they’re ready to race,” Moody said.

“But the reality is they have to come back and do it again as three-year-olds. That will be a big challenge for them.

“I think horses like Black Caviar, Reward For Effort and those sorts of horses will be excellent three-year-olds but they still have to come back to the track and prove themselves again.”

Moody said the task facing his two-year-old brigade was not necessarily to improve in their three-year-old season but to stay ahead of the chasing pack.

“It’s just like a junior footballer who dominates in the under-14s but when he gets to the under-18s, the rest of the kids on the field catch up,” Moody said.

“It’s the same with horses. They don’t lose their ability, they just develop at different rates and the others catch up with them and in many cases go past them.”

Moody said his stable alone had “plenty” of two-year-olds who aren’t ready to race yet but had shown enough on the track to suggest they will have very good three-year-old seasons.

“We’ll be bringing through a few more in the next few weeks that we want to have a look at,” he said. “There are some in there that will keep the two-year-olds on their toes.”

Moody New Trainer For Tickets
Meanwhile owner-breeder Peter Moran confirmed Gr2-winning & dual Gr1-placed 2YO colt Tickets (Redoute's Choice-Staging, by Success Express) will now be trained by Peter Moody at Caulfield in Melbourne as he is aimed toward the Gr1 Caulfield Guineas in the spring. Tickets boasts 2 wins (in March's Gr2 Darley Stakes over 1200m at Rosehill & February's Listed Canonbury Stakes over 1100m at Randwick on debut) & 2 placings (including both April's Gr1 AJC Sires Produce Stakes over 1400m at Randwick & Gr1 Champagne Stakes over 1600m at Randwick) from 5 starts for $335,275 earnings. (Jun 16)

Brad Waters
Monday, 22 June 2009


Caulfield trainer Peter Moody’s awesome spring team of youngsters continues to gather strength with the addition of promising colt Wanted to his stable.

Moody welcomed the top-class juvenile Tickets and adding Wanted to the likes of Black Caviar, Reward For Effort and Avenue will have the stable poised to dominate the three-year-old races during the Melbourne spring.

Michael Fagan, racing manager for Wanted’s majority owner Hayson Bloodstock, said the son of Fastnet Rock would join the Moody stable because his main aim is the Group I Caulfield Guineas.

“We were super happy with the job John O’Shea did with him but the syndicate had a meeting when the horse went for a spell and we decided to target the Caulfield Guineas with him,” Fagan said.

“Wanted is a group three winner in the Kindergarten Stakes and he’s a cracking type and he’s unbeaten on dry tracks.

“The Sydney spring will come up too quick for him so we decided to duck Sydney and go for the Melbourne spring .We felt the horse needs to be trained in Melbourne to give him every chance of winning the Guineas.”

Fagan said Wanted’s owners decided on Moody because he trained on the track where the Guineas would be run and because of a long-standing friendship between himself and Moody.

“I’ve been friends with Peter since he was a foreman for Bill Mitchell 20 years ago,” Fagan said. “We decided it was in the horse’s best interests to be trained at Caulfield and Peter was an obvious choice.”

Moody will be Wanted’s third trainer after beginning his career with the Hawkes stable but Fagan said Wanted could return to the O’Shea stable in the future.

“We’ll weigh it up at the end of the spring,” Fagan said. “He is a stallion prospect and if we decide to have a real go at the Sydney carnival in the autumn, there is every chance he could go back to John.

“John is a top trainer and a real professional; we won’t hesitate to give him horses in the future.”

Nathan exelby wrote a good piece on Peter Moody yesterday in the CM tracing his beginnings in Charleville in SWQ to where he is today amonghst the top trainers in OZ.The pic taken in the early 80's shows PGM as he was as a stripling before he could afford some of the finer things in life .Well that didn't work will try to do it again. [ ERROR: SPECIFIED ATTACHMENT MISSING ]

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PGM on the right with mentor Frank Cavanough and unknown jockey Coming Country is the horse.

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Have to give him a

Stable flying - almost an embarassment of riches for the stable. Very expansive on radio this morning for Sport927 - for a guy with family on a Sunday morning he'd be well entitled to be short on for a wrap up of his stable.

Listening to him talk about his horses and goals reminded me of the halycon days for the Freedman stable in the 90's.

Try this, Arsenal.

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Incredible trainer.

Interestingly for breeding buffs Doubtful Jack is out of a Marscay mare who in turn is out of a Sir Tristram mare whilst Mr Charlie is out of a Maizcay mare who in turn is out of a Sir Tristram mare.

And they are both STALLIONS. 

Really he is so far in front of every other trainer in Australia its not funny.

And no  Doubtful Jack is not a stallion.

How is the doping charge going or have they got a few more to consider.

Has this been dismissed or just a fine.

http://www.racingvictoria.net.au/stewards/stewardsInqu_5712.aspx

I think this is still the case