CHAMPION unbeaten sprinting mare Black Caviar will have the chance to win her own race during her swansong autumn campaign.
The Victoria Racing Club today announced that one of their most famous sprint races will now be named the Black Caviar Lightning.

The winner of all of her 22 race starts has won the Lightning Stakes twice already.

She has won seven races at Flemington, including five Group Ones, and VRC chief executive Dale Monteith said "it is appropriate she will be immortalised with a race in her honour at headquarters”.

“Black Caviar has won the Lightning twice already, and we would dearly love for her to contest the inaugural Black Caviar Lightning in February 2013 in what could be her last campaign.

“Champion trainer Peter Moody and Black Caviar courageously tackled this year’s Lightning Stakes, dropping back from 1400m to 1000m in seven days, beating top-line sprinters Hay List and Buffering. Her win defied history and she is a very special horse."

Part-owner Neil Werrett said that while no decision had been made about her specific return to racing in 2013, "it would be very special if she could run in such a prestigious Group One race as the Lightning for a third time, which is now to be renamed after her. We are indeed very honoured”.

The weight-for-age Black Caviar Lightning will remain Australia’s only 1000m Group One race and the opening leg of the 2013 Global Sprint Challenge.

Australian Pattern Committee (APC) approval for any change to Group One races is now a requirement and this was received yesterday. As a matter of process the APC has referred the name change to the Asian Pattern Committee for ratification.

Black Caviar’s Record at Flemington

Group One Coolmore Lightning Stakes 2012 - 1000m WFA
Group One Patinack Farm Classic 2011- 1200m WFA
Group One Lexus Newmarket Hcp 2011- 1200m Hcp
Group One Coolmore Lightning Stakes 2011 - 1000m WFA
Group One Patinack Farm Classic 2010 - 1200m WFA
Group Two Danehill Stakes 2009 - 1200m 3YO SWP
Cromwell Handicap 2009 - 1000m 2YO Hcp

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