2011/12 Racing Season in review

Well, what a season it has been in the training ranks with records broken, vast improvement shown, and proven professionals continuing their rein at the top.

We will first start with the overall premiership in total wins around Australia which Dynamic’s own Peter Moody has clearly topped on 209 wins at a strike rate of 20.25%



Peter has claimed ten Gr1 winners and nine Gr2 winners which puts him on top of these respective lists as well. He also added seven Gr3 winners this season (2nd position) as well as taking his wonder mare, Black Caviar, to win in Europe and her record at 22 starts for 22 wins.

This is an outstanding effort from the man who has cemented his spot at the top of Australian racing with his continuing success.

Moody beat home Peter Snowden in 2nd, Darren Weir and fellow Dynamic Trainer Chris Waller .

Chris Waller enjoyed another brilliant season training 172.5 winners overall with prizemoney in excess of $10m.

Trainers Premiership – Australia Wide

Rank	Trainer	Wins	Win %	Places	Place %	Starts	Prizemoney
1	P G Moody	209	20.25%	484	46.90%	1032	$14.8m
2	Peter Snowden	183	14.79%	528	42.68%	1237	$11.2m
3	D K Weir	173	16.76%	442	42.83%	1032	$3.9m
4	C J Waller	172.5	14.16%	490	40.23%	1218	$10.2m
5	Ms G Waterhouse	160	23.19%	336	48.70%	690	$14m
6	M G Price	131	19.01%	338	49.08%	689	$5.2m

In terms of metropolitan wins it is a familiar sight with Dynamic Trainers again topping the list with Chris Waller finishing first ahead of Peter Moody.



Both Chris and Peter won their city and state premierships for the year with Chris winning both titles in NSW and Peter winning in Victoria.

Peter Snowden was in third after a year where he produced 3 Gr1 wins for the season

Metropolitan Statistics

Rank	Trainer	Wins	Win %	Places	Place %	Starts	Prizemoney
1	C J Waller	131.5	13.60%	374	38.68%	967	$9.5m
2	P G Moody	109	16.54%	274	41.58%	659	$13.6m
3	Peter Snowden	106	13.12%	329.5	40.78%	808	$9.9m

Although Chris Waller comfortably won both NSW and Sydney premierships there is a number of performances that should be highlighted inside the top 10 trainers.

Darren Smith’s rise into the top ten must be noted as a brilliant achievement. Darren managed to secure his 3rd Max Lees Medal on Saturday for having the best Strike Rate at the Newcastle Track over the season.

Darren beat home many noted leading trainers in overall wins adding to his provincial tally of 46.5 wins by producing 11 city winners throughout the year including a Stakes Win in Melbourne and a Gr1 in NZ.



Taking into account trainers who have had more than 100 runners for the season, Darren sits in 6th place in overall strike rate only being behind Waterhouse (23.79), Karakatsanis (21.85), O’Shea (18.45), Dale (18.33) and Paul Murray (18.27)

Gerald Ryan also had a very solid year and cemented his spot in the top ten with an impressive 68 wins for the year.

NSW Training Premiership

Rank	Trainer	Wins	Win %	Places	Place %	Starts	Prizemoney
1	C J Waller	165.5	14.21	474	40.69	1165	$8,644,670
2	Ms G Waterhouse	153	23.79	319	49.6	1643	$11,120,130
3	Peter Snowden	106	13.84	326	42.56	766	$5,572,165
4	G H Walter	84	13.64	223	36.20	616	$3,819,435
5	J A O'Shea	74	18.45	173	43.14	401	$3,070,420
6	K A Lees	69	12.08	212	37.13	571	$1,386,620
7	A J Cummings	69	11.69	195	33.05	590	$3,226,645
8	G A Ryan	68	13.53	176.5	35.51	500	$3,266,245
9	Joseph Pride	59	14.90	154.5	39.02	396	$3,299,210
10	D P Smith	55.5	17.45	128.5	40.41	318	$961,785

In Victoria, as previously mentioned Peter Moody took the honours for leading trainer with fellow Caulfield and Dynamic trainer, Mick Price also having a good year.

In the Metropolitan area, Mick finished 2nd in overall winners behind Peter in the Melbourne trainer’s premiership however turned the tables to finish 1st on strike rate with Moody back in 2nd.

Melbourne Training Premiership

Rank	Trainer	Wins	Win %	Places	Place %	Starts	Prizemoney
1	P G Moody	91	16.49	227	41.12	552	$8,706,777
2	M G Price	51	17.96	125	44.01	284	$3,502,399
3	R W Smerdon	45	14.52	108	34.84	310	$3,712,824
4	Peter Snowden	34	13.77	97	39.27	247	$4,354,456
5	A Freedman	33	16.10	85	41.46	205	$2,390,704

If we look out of the city and away from the big trainers, we should pay homage to some of the smaller stables who have had a particularly good year this year.

These trainers listed below have managed to top the strike rate tally with smaller stables racing in NSW.

A special mention should go to Angela Davies who managed to produce a winner almost 43% of the time she competed in a race.

NSW Strike Rates for trainers with less than 200 starts

Rank	Trainer	Wins	Win %	Starts
1	Angela Davies	18	42.86	42
2	David Vandyke	19	33.33	57
3	Con Karakatsanis	26	21.85	119
4	Matthew Dale	22	18.33	120
5	Brett Cavanough	31	17.22	180
6	Keith Dryden	23.5	17.15	137

In Brisbane, the trainer’s premiership was wrapped up by Robert Heathcote who comfortably secured the premiership.

Dynamic Trainer Matt Dunn had a stellar year producing 19 city winners to place him 8th on the city trainers premiership overall.



Overall, Matt has produced 53.5 winners for the season at a strike rate of 16.77% runners to winners in a very tough QLD market.

He has continued to prove himself as one of the best trainers up North despite not having as many horses as the top trainers and has seen his reputation grow.

Other notables this year on the NSW trainer’s ranks include

Trainer	Wins	Win %	Places	Place %	Starts	Prizemoney
John Thompson	119	13.06	296	32.49	911	$5,185,245
K A Lees	70	12.22	213	37.17	573	$1,408,150
Joseph Pride	59	14.86	154.5	38.92	397	$3,299,210
P M Perry	41.5	6.75	178.5	29.02	615	$1,211,770
David Payne	41.5	9.44	153.5	34.89	440	$2,909,825
C E Conners	38.5	10.35	114.5	30.78	372	$1,252,940
J B Cummings	35	10.20	108	31.49	343	$999,050
M, W & J Hawkes	34	17.09	81	40.70	199	$2,336,705
Paul Messara	31	15.82	77.5	39.54	196	$735,995
E B Murray	29	11.93	79	32.51	243	$787,505
J C Coyle	25	11.63	71	33.02	215	$630,555
T R Martin	23	15.23	52.5	34.77	151	$1,118,440
G Portelli	22	8.40	82.5	31.49	262	$1,029,240
G M Begg	20	9.66	83	40.10	207	$1,383,770
Ms K Waugh	19	16.81	36	31.86	113	$382,150
David Vandyke	19	33.33	31.5	55.26	57	$535,510
M C Conners	17	8.06	57	27.01	211	$371,775
Mark De Montfort	12	11.65	46	44.66	103	$309,960
Matthew Smith	12	13.64	34	38.64	88	$334,040
Kevin Moses	11.5	6.15	44.5	23.80	187	$374,475
G R Nickson	10	14.08	20	28.17	71	$204,140
G A Rogerson	6	5.41	26	23.42	111	$342,560
D L Freedman & G A Rogerson	1	3.33	8	26.67	30	$48,925

•    John Thompson enjoyed a brilliant year being the champion trainer of 2yo’s and also taking out the Queensland Premiership title.
•    David Payne had another solid year producing over 40 winners including Gr1 winner Master of Design.
•    Jason Coyle enjoyed a good year on the track especially in the back end of the season with his small team producing 25 winners.
•    Gary Portelli produced 23 winners this season including an impressive 3 black type winners.
•    Gary Nickson only had a very small team last season however he managed to produce 10 winners at an impressive strike rate of 14.08%

It has been another great year of racing producing some heart stopping thrills, some brilliant black type action and some touching moments.

For a full wrap on the Dynamic season, stay tuned to the website over the coming days as a report will be posted shortly.

Jay Mathieson