Lighting Showdown Looms

The Everest-winning trainer Joe Pride is looking forward to one of his stable stars, Private Eye (Al Maher), clashing with Te Akau Racing’s superstar Imperatriz (I Am Invincible) in the G1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington next month.

“He’s heading towards the Lightning. It will be a showdown with the great sprinting mare (Imperatriz). It should be great,” Pride told Racing.com.

“Private Eye has returned in great order, and he loves the straight track; he also flies fresh.”

Bred by Goodwood Farm and sold at the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale for $62,500 to Jamie Walter’s Proven Thoroughbreds, the now 6yo gelding has earned connections more than $10.2m in prizemoney to date.

Copy: The Thoroughbred Report