Black Caviar's brother hits back at Valley

Moshe has bounced back to winning form with a comfortable success in Friday night’s Moreton Hire Handicap (1000m) at Moonee Valley.

Black Caviar’s little brother blotted his copybook for the first time at his previous start in the Listed Fireball Quality (1100m) at Rosehill but he had no trouble with the lesser horses in Friday’s $50,000 race.

Jockey Dwayne Dunn parked Moshe on the back of the early leaders before he eased the son of Bel Esprit into clear running approaching the home turn.

Moshe laid in a touch in the straight before getting the upper hand on his rivals to score a strong win over Commanding Time, who ran on fairly well in the straight.

The win was Moshe’s third in four starts but his co-trainer Wayne Hawkes said the colt was unlucky to suffer from comparisons to his undefeated star sister.

“I was probably glad he only just won, rather than by five or six (lengths),” Hawkes, who trains Moshe in partnership with his father John and brother Michael said.

“It’s not his fault he’s Black Caviar’s brother, something has to be Black Caviar’s brother.”

While Hawkes was keen to keep a lid on the hype surrounding Moshe but did note the three-year-old showed improved racing manners.

“He has just been a really immature horse,” Hawkes said. “He never raced until he was three, the other filly (Black Caviar) didn’t race until she was three either. Maybe it is just in their breed.

“He jumped pretty cleanly tonight. He jumps sideways but tonight he was pretty clean so he is getting better and he has plenty of improvement left in him.

“He is a restricted horse running in restricted races and he is winning so you would take it every day of the week.

The market: Bookies opened Moshe at $1.24 before easing to $1.50. Commanding Time drifted from $3.80 to $4.40 while Danzareel drifted from $6 to $9. Precieux drifted $11 to $17 while Biondi eased from $13 to $17.

Story: Brad Waters RaceNet

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