The world’s highest-rated sprinter Black Caviar has been allocated the 58kg top-weight for this year’s $1 million Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m) when the weights for the Melbourne Autumn Carnival feature were released today.

The 2011 Newmarket Handicap, one of two Group 1 showdowns on the card for Flemington’s Super Saturday of Racing on March 12, is set to feature a star-studded field with Peter Moody’s unbeaten mare Black Caviar the red hot favourite to win.

Despite having been allocated a hefty 58kg to carry in the Newmarket, Black Caviar remains odds-on at $1.35 in the Newmarket Handicap odds at Luxbet.

A weight carrying record would have to be broken by Black Caviar in the Newmarket as the only top-weighted mare to win the race to date was Maybe Mahal who carried 56.5kg to victory back in 1978.

We have to go back to 1991 to find the last Newmarket Handicap winner who had 58kg on their back, Shaftsbury Avenue the only runner in the past five decades to cart this weight to a win in the Newmarket.

Moody is yet to confirm whether he will run the freakishly talented four-year-old in the Newmarket this year, where Black Caviar would be vying to extend her succession of wins to 10.

Black Caviar has to date won all nine of her race starts, the most weight she has carried to victory so far being 57.5kg in the Listed Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield in May 2009.

Her Newmarket Handicap weight is the same the legendary Makybe Diva carried to her third straight Melbourne Cup success in 2005.

Black Caviar is equal first in the Newmarket Handicap order of entry along with the David Hayes-trained Eagle Falls who has been allocated 55kg.

Hussonet five-year-old Eagle Falls came right into Newmarket Handicap contention on Saturday with a brilliant win in the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate (1100m) at Caulfield carrying 2kg more than his weight for the Newmarket.

Luxbet have Eagle Falls as an $18 shot in their Newmarket betting.

Twelve months ago Eagle Falls ran fifth in the Oakleigh Plate before finishing a close second to Wanted in the 2010 Newmarket Handicap carrying 52.5kg.

Following Black Caviar the next heaviest weighted Newmarket hopeful is Hay List with 56.5kg.

Boom galloper Hay List has twice faced the queen on the track, most recently running a distant second behind Black Caviar in the weight-for-age Group 1 Lightning Stakes (1000m) at Flemington on February 19.

However, if they are both accepted for the Newmarket Handicap field Hay List would meet Black Caviar 3.5kg better in the weights for the first time.

Hay List is the $12 second elect in the Newmarket Handicap betting at Luxbet followed by Star Witness at $14.

Dual Group 1 winning colt Star Witness is the top-rated three-year-old among the 44 first acceptors for the Newmarket Handicap and has been allocated 53kg.

Danny O’Brien’s son of Starcraft Star Witness has been beaten just once down the Flemington straight when second to Black Caviar in the Group 1 Patinack Farm Classic (1200m) last November.

Star Witness would be carrying 1.5kg more than then three-year-old Wanted carried to victory in the Newmarket last year.

Below is a full list of the 2011 Newmarket Handicap first acceptors and weights.

To view the complete Newmarket Handicap Fixed Win and Place odds on all the early entries head to Luxbet today!

2011 Newmarket Handicap Nominations & Weights

#	Horse	Trainer	Ballot	Weight (kg)	Hcp. Rating
1	BLACK CAVIAR	Peter G Moody	=1	58	122
2	HAY LIST	John McNair	3	56.5	115
3	EAGLE FALLS	David Hayes	=1	55	111
4	WHITEFRIARS	Rick Worthington	6	54.5	110
5	CATAPULTED	Mark Kavanagh	7	54.5	110
6	GRAND DUELS	Byron Cozamanis	9	54	108
7	FIRST COMMAND	Lee Freedman	10	54	108
8	STAR WITNESS	Danny O’Brien	4	53	113
9	ORTENSIA	Tony Noonan	5	53	111
10	DOUBTFUL JACK	Peter G Moody	16	53	105
11	BEADED	Peter Snowden	8	52.5	109
12	REWARD FOR EFFORT	Peter G Moody	17	52.5	103
13	SHELLSCRAPE	Chris Waller	18	52.5	103
14	AVENUE	Peter G Moody	11	52	108
15	SET FOR FAME	Peter G Moody	13	52	107
16	RESPONSE	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	14	52	107
17	CHASM	Heath Conners	19	52	102
18	SISTER MADLY	Anthony Cummings	20	52	102
19	AHDASHIM (NZ)	Gerald Ryan	21	52	100
20	KING PULSE	Michael Moroney	23	52	99
21	PAPRIKA	Liam Birchley	24	52	98
22	UNDENIABLY	Mark Kavanagh	26	52	96
23	WE’RE GONNA ROCK	Mark Kavanagh	28	52	95
24	KEANO (NZ)	Danny O’Brien	29	52	94
25	MARQUARDT (NZ)	John P Thompson	30	52	94
26	TRADER	Anthony Cummings	31	52	94
27	CAPTAIN COLTISH	Peter G Moody	32	52	94
28	VOILE ROUGE (NZ)	David Hayes	35	52	92
29	SO ANYWAY	John P Thompson	37	52	91
30	TOLLESPRIT	Shane Fliedner	38	52	91
31	SNAPPARAZI	Barbara Marshman	39	52	91
32	JEREZANA	Peter Snowden	40	52	89
33	QUICK PEEK	Anthony Cummings	42	52	75
34	SARGE IN CHARGE (NZ)	Liam Birchley	43	52	74
35	DECISION TIME	Clarry Conners	15	50.5	105
36	CRYSTAL LILY	Mathew Ellerton & Simon Zahra	12	50	107
37	HINCHINBROOK	Peter G Moody	22	50	99
38	MASTER HARRY	Peter G Moody	25	50	96
39	STIRLING GROVE	Richard Jolly	27	50	95
40	BIGELOW	Clinton McDonald	33	50	92
41	SHRAPNEL	Mark Kavanagh	34	50	92
42	PANIPIQUE	Peter G Moody	36	50	92
43	SMOKIN’ JOEY	Lee Freedman	41	50	76
44	POTIONS	John P Thompson	44	50	68

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