Moody juggernaut rolls on
Horse racing 
/ Ben Asgari / 15 December 2009 / Leave a comment Bet Now
Black Caviar, Typhoon Tracy, Reward for Effort, Hanks, Wanted, Tickets, Headway and Avenue are just some of the horses that make Moody's stable of young stars without doubt the most impressive in the country.
Although only December, this season's Metropolitan Trainers Premiership has a markedly different look. Ben Asgari reflects on the performance of the Peter Moody team.
Doubtful Jack's impressive win at Moonee Valley on Sunday clocked up city-winner number twenty-eight this season for trainer Peter Moody.
With another two winners on Friday night, making it three for the weekend in total, he has extended his lead in the premiership to an impressive eight.
Moody currently leads the Victorian Metropolitan Trainers Premiership from Mark Kavanagh (20), Lee Freedman (19) and David Hayes (18).
Although only December, this year's training premiership is a refreshing change from the usual sheer weight-of-numbers dominance of Hayes and Freedman.
Moody credits his recent wealth of riches to a decision several years ago to cull stable numbers. With so many horses in his care at the time, he was no longer enjoying early mornings at the track and was finding it too hard to pay each horse the attention it deserved. This resulted in the decision to concentrate on quality over quantity.
In what has clearly turned out to be an inspired move, Moody looks to have a genuine chance at winning his first trainers premiership, highlighted by the calibre of some of the horses that have recently come back into the stable ahead of an autumn campaign.
Black Caviar, Typhoon Tracy, Reward for Effort, Hanks, Wanted, Tickets, Headway and Avenue are just some of the horses that make Moody's stable of young stars the most impressive in the country.
Perhaps just as impressive as Moody's effort, is that of Mark Kavanagh in second place. While Kavanagh's meteoric rise to fame has been well documented, his twenty winners so far this season have come at by far the best strike rate of any of the trainers in the top four.
In fact, Kavanagh has had near on half the runners of the Hayes stable, yet boasts two more city winners, including the Yalumba Stakes and the Melbourne Cup.
Both the Moody and Kavanagh stables are lightly represented this Wednesday at Caulfield, with Moody only having two runners and Kavanagh one.
Moody saddles up the promising staying mare Belle Famille in race three, while in race seven, the race the MRC have named in honour of himself, he will try to win with the improving Rock Honey.
Kavanagh's only runner for the day is the talented maiden Undeniably, who will be having only its third race start in the first on the card.
