RACING READ
PERFECT PARTNERSHIP BY TREVOR MARSHALLSEA
Much of Peter Moody’s and Luke Nolen’s success as a duo has come from good old-fashioned loyalty, trust and friendship. It was 20 years ago in May that Peter Moody made a great mistake. A year after moving his young family from Brisbane to build his Caulfield stable, the driven 33-year-old was told by Luke Currie that he couldn’t make the weights for two of his horses on one of those bush missions, earning Moody a reputation among bemused city trainers. Pondering alternatives, Moody remembered a fellow relocated Queenslander, Shaun Nolen. He asked Currie, “What about this Nolen bloke?” Currie said he was “going all right” and passed Moody a number. The trainer rang it, engaged the jockey, and a few days later cheered at the TV from Caulfield as Umagold won at Sale, and Sydney’s Quest came second.
Luke and Peter in 2013 after Black Caviar recorded her 23rd consecutive win, in the race named in her honour, the Black Caviar Lightning. (Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
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