LEADING trainer Peter Moody might have maintained his lead in the Melbourne training premiership with one win at Flemington last Saturday, but with 10 runners at the meeting his strike-rate took a hit, reports The Age.It says: Not that he lost too much sleep over the defeats.''You'd like all of them to win but that's an unrealistic goal. We weren't disappointed,'' he said. ''We'd be disappointed if they were running bad but they were still running well, even in defeat.''After a four-day trip to
LEADING trainer Peter Moody might have maintained his lead in the Melbourne training premiership with one win at Flemington last Saturday, but with 10 runners at the meeting his strike-rate took a hit, reports The Age.
It says: Not that he lost too much sleep over the defeats.
''You'd like all of them to win but that's an unrealistic goal. We weren't disappointed,'' he said. ''We'd be disappointed if they were running bad but they were still running well, even in defeat.''
After a four-day trip to the New Zealand yearling sales where he bought 15 horses, Moody was back at Caulfield yesterday looking forward to tomorrow's Orr Stakes card, where he has three runners.
Moody won the Blue Diamond Stakes last year with Reward For Effort, and the trainer is hopeful that lightly raced filly Panipique can progress to the group 1 event in a fortnight with a good showing in the Fillies' Prelude.
''She's a Testa Rossa filly who won well first-up at Moonee Valley and she has improved nicely off that. I expect her to run very well,'' he said.
The trainer's second runner tomorrow is Avenue, one of his much-admired crop of high-class three-year-olds.