Horse lovers and racing aficionados will likely be a bit long in the face following the death of champion racehorse Black Caviar a couple of days shy of her 18th birthday. Coming before Winx and after Makybe Diva, she boasted a record 25 wins from 25 starts between 2009-13. And the backstory is a little unusual… Trainer Peter Moody, a knock-about-bloke from the Queensland bush, paid $210,000 for her as an injury-prone filly in 2008 and turned her into a champion. “At the stables and at the races, she was all business, and you didn’t want to be messing with her. At home … she was like a big teddy bear.” She was euthanised after giving birth to a foal and contracting laminitis, a disease that prevents horses from walking. Considered one of the top racehorses of the modern era, the Victorian Racing Club said she will be remembered as “simply the best.”