Black Caviar raced to her 14th straight victory, winning the Schillaci Stakes on Saturday at Caulfield to match the feat of the great Australian thoroughbred Phar Lap.
Black Caviar, the 5-year-old mare ridden by Luke Nolen and trained by Peter Moody, won the 1,000-meter race by four lengths. Black Caviar began the day paying $1.06 for a win, the shortest price for a favorite in a Group race in Australia for 50 years.
Owned by a consortium of five families and friends, most of them vegetable growers in Melbourne's southeast, Black Caviar won two races as a 2-year-old, three as a 3-year-old and eight last year as a 4-year-old, including six Group 1 races.
Black Caviar ended up paying $1.07 for the win in the $200,000 Group Two event.
"It's a relief to have her back in great shape and doing what she loves and putting on a great show for the crowd," Moody said. "She's a fully developed mare now and this will be her best campaign."