Black Caviar swept to previously unscaled heights as she erased a 137-year record from the turf annals to claim the country's greatest sprinting handicap, seemingly with a minimum of effort or fuss. No other horse has won its first 10 races.

Peter Moody's champion sprinter claimed a raft of records as she treated her rivals with contempt and the 24,583 crowd to an indelible memory.

As Black Caviar made Flemington roar like it does on Melbourne Cup day, the four-year-old created history on numerous fronts as she:

RAN the fastest Newmarket Handicap 1min 7.36sec.

ERASED Grand Flaneur, the 1880 Melbourne Cup winner, and others from the history books as the longest unbeaten start to a career.

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STARTED shortest-priced favourite ($1.18) in Newmarket history.

CARRIED the most weight by a mare to victory since Pendant in 1906, eclipsing the mark set by Maybe Mahal (56.5kg) in the 1978 Newmarket.

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