Peter Moody

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Peter Moody
OccupationRacehorse trainer
Born
Australia
Racing awards
Australian Racing Hall of Fame
Significant horses
Amalfi, Black Caviar, Dissident, Incentivise, Typhoon Tracy

Peter Moody is an Australian thoroughbred racehorse trainer who is notable for training over three thousand winners, including 60 Group One winners.

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He was the trainer of the champion sprinter Black Caviar who was unbeaten in all of her 25 starts, including 15 Group Ones.

Moody came from Wyandra, a town in Queensland. As a teenager, he worked as a stablehand for legendary trainer T J Smith at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney. Moody took out a trainer's licence in 1998 and prepared his first winner that year with Ebony Way at Eagle Farm. [1]

His first Group 1 winner was Amalfi in the 2001 Victoria Derby at Flemington Racecourse. [2]

He has won four Melbourne Trainers' Premierships. [3] He now trains in partnership with Katherine Coleman.

In 2025 Moody was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. [4]

Notable horses and victories

See also

References

  1. "Racenet - Australia's Premier Horse Racing News, Form Guides & Tips". racenet.com.au.
  2. https://www.thoroughbrednews.com.au/News/Story/2845
  3. Manley - @MichaelManley_1, Michael. "Moody hoping for Derby repeat". RACING.COM.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "2025 Australian Racing Hall Of Fame :: Racing Queensland". www.racingqueensland.com.au. 10 October 2025.
  5. "Racing.com - Profile". www.racing.com.
  6. sport, Guardian (17 August 2024). "'Simply the best': champion Australian racehorse Black Caviar dies age 17" via The Guardian.
  7. "Dissident named Horse of the Year". 8 October 2015 via www.abc.net.au.
  8. Pengilly, Adam (8 October 2015). "Dissident crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  9. Bartley, Patrick (28 February 2016). "Flamberge, the gutsy horse who never gave in, wins group 1 Oakleigh Plate". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  10. "Moody's Typhoon Tracy dies". 13 August 2012 via www.abc.net.au.