Peter Moody dutifully praised his horse after Moment Of Change won Group One C.F. Orr Stakes at Caulfield.

But he will have saved a large part of the post-race celebration for himself.

"He's a good, honest horse in the right race for him," Moody said.

"He ran them along, he stuck his head out, he deserved it.

Moody may have felt similar sentiments at a personal level.

Moment Of Change is his first Group One winner since Black Caviar scored the last of her 25 wins at Randwick last April.

"I suppose it's been a while, but you can't be disappointed when you have no expectations," he said.

"We're putting a good team together. I'm not concerned."

While Black Caviar earned Moody his greatest fame, the Orr Stakes on Saturday demonstrates a wider range of achievement for the man who has won four Melbourne trainers' championships.

Moody-trained runners have won four of the past five runnings of the race with only one of those falling to the champion mare.

Moment Of Change, the $2.35 favourite, bounced to the front and carved out a pace that had the stayers Hawkspur and Foreteller struggling and the Cox Plate winner Shamus Award out of his comfort zone.

Only the three-year-old Eurozone ($6), who found his right position in midfield, had anything to give, running on to finish a short half-head behind the winner.

Shamus Award battled on for third in what his rider Craig Williams described as a "brutal" race.

"He chased really well, the times he ran would win most races," Williams said.

His trainer Danny O'Brien will take him straight to next month's Australian Guineas where he will again run into Eurozone.

His co-trainer James Cummings blamed the firmness of the track for Eurozone's defeat after a run he said proved the horse to be among the country's best three-year-olds.

As well as giving Moody a boost, Moment Of Change became the centrepiece of a big day for his jockey Luke Nolen.

Like Moody, he fell into a losing rut after Black Caviar's retirement and spent a month away from racing to recharge, returning to the saddle last month.

He was rewarded with a winning double he completed on the Moody-trained A Time For Julia in the Group Three Bellmaine Stakes (1200m).

"You start to doubt yourself when things aren't falling into place," Nolen said.

"But all you can do is give them the chance and the rest takes care of itself. "Hopefully it's the start of what's going to be a very fruitful autumn for us."

Moody went one better, adding the win of Spirits Dance in the Group Three Kevin Hayes Stakes to claim a winning treble.