DYNAMIC turns GAI as WATERHOUSE & WATT become the Ultimate DYNAMIC DUO

30 Dec 14

1) It’s Official – GAI WATERHOUSE is now DYNAMIC !

2) WATERHOUSE & WATT become the ultimate "DYNAMIC DUO"

3) It's Official - DYNAMIC have turned "GAI"

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Dynamic Syndications are delighted to announce that we will be syndicating horses with Gai Waterhouse in 2015.

Gai is warmly welcomed as a New and Vital Member of the DYNAMIC SYNDICATIONS Racing Team.

Alan Jones, Sydney’s influential broadcaster, paid her the ultimate accolade recently when he said:

"She's it. She's racing, the allure, the glamour, the public face of racing."

To describe the Hall Of Fame Champion Trainer and Australia’s First Lady of Racing by definition:

“Positive in attitude and full of energy and new ideas.”

“Characterised by energy or effective action; vigorously active; energetic.”

Therefore it’s a natural evolution that Gai Waterhouse (a household name, Champion Trainer and Australian icon), would create a strategic alliance with Dynamic Syndications, Australia’s highest profile and most successful syndication company.

Dean Watt, Managing Director of Dynamic Syndications said:

“For many years I felt Gai has been the missing jewel in our crown of Australia’s Leading Trainers”

But now that’s all changed !

In 2015, working in conjunction with Australia’s First Lady of Racing, we will commence an exciting and mutually rewarding, symbiotic relationship to allow significant expansion of the Dynamic Syndications business model through the Gai Waterhouse Racing Stables, allowing us to deliver a higher number of outstanding racing opportunities to our large and ever growing client base.

Commencing at the Magic Millions Sale and continuing throughout the 2015 Sales Season, Dynamic Syndications will work in conjunction with Gai, selecting a large number of quality yearlings that we will offer to our clients, to be trained from historic Tulloch Lodge.

It’s a wonderful opportunity for Dynamic Syndications to introduce our clients, friends and the open market, to the stylish, glamorous and effervescent world of Gai Waterhouse Racing.

Gai Waterhouse cemented her place amongst the nation's all-time leading trainers, combining tradition with innovation to reach the pinnacle of her profession.

Focus, vision, energy and a determination to succeed, has enabled Gai Waterhouse to capture:

126 Group 1 Wins, more than 461 coveted black type trophies, 4 NSW Premierships, 7 Sydney Trainer's Premierships and Gai has also won a premiership title for Australia’s leading G1 Winning Trainer.

Gai Waterhouse – Her Stats at a Glance

Career Total: Starts 12,899 - Wins 2,644 (20.5%) - Placings 3,422 (26.5%) - Prizemoney $177,116,700

Current Season: Starts 314 – Wins – 56 (17.8%) – Placings 85 (27.1%) – Prizemoney $3,714,315

2yo Success
Career Total:   Starts 1,801 - Wins 425 (24%) - Places 508 (28%) - Prizemoney $40,784,030

Black Type Success
Starts 3,195 - Wins 461 (14%) - Placings 752 (18%)

Classics - Distance Snapshots 1600m – 3200m
Between 1600m – 2000m: Starts 2,355 – Wins 502 (21.3%) – Places 634 (26.9%)

Between 2000m – 2400m: Starts 1,394 - Wins 222 (15.9%) Places 373 (26.8%)

At 3200m: Starts 47 – Wins 6 (13%) - Places 6 (13%)

10 Most Wins by a Stable Runner
MORE JOYOUS   21   $4,572,450
GRAND ARMEE   13   $5,304,350
DESERT WAR   12   $3,017,750
BENTLEY BISCUIT 12   $1,439,225
THESEO       11   $3,202,780
PIERRO       11   $4,536,650
WILD QUEEN   10   $551,200
RESTLESS   10   $574,705
JOKU       10   $481,675
DANCE HERO   10   $3,892,350

10 Highest Stakes Earners for Stable
FIORENTE   4   $6,068,500
GRAND ARMEE   13   $5,304,350
MORE JOYOUS   21   $4,572,450
PIERRO       11   $4,536,650
DANCE HERO   10   $3,892,350
ASSERTIVE LAD   6   $3,305,030
THESEO       11   $3,202,780
TUESDAY JOY   7   $3,201,150
DESERT WAR   12   $3,017,750
HA HA       8   $2,986,615

Bylines:
WATERHOUSE & WATT – A DYNAMIC DUO !
DYNAMIC has turned GAI !

GAI WATERHOUSE

Gai's track record extends beyond the racecourse to the yearling sale ring where she's proven herself an astute yearling judge – Just a handful of her selections include: Dual Group One winner Assertive Lass, Victoria Derby winner Nothin' Leica Dane, 4 times Group 1 winner Juggler, multiple Group winner Excellerator and 2YO champion racehorse of the year and Triple Crown winner Dance Hero.

An astute purchaser of tried horses as well, Gai dramatically improved average handicappers to Group 1 success stories as well, including: Electronic, Stony Bay, Hula Flight, Coco Cobanna and In Joyment.

About Gai Waterhouse – Australia’s First Lady of Racing

Gai is a phenomenon, an Australian icon, and her achievements are a testimony to what vision, planning, hard work, energy and dedication can produce.

Gai Waterhouse is the daughter of Valerie and Tommy J. Smith MBE, Australia’s All Time Champion Racehorse Trainer based at Randwick.

Gai was educated at Kincoppal-Rose Bay, then completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of New South Wales in 1975. In the early years, Gai made a career for herself as a model and actress, which included appearing in the Australian drama The Young Doctors before moving to England and appearing in the Doctor Who story - The Invasion of Time.

Gai then returned to Australia where her passion for racing took over and served an apprenticeship under her father for fifteen years before getting her own trainer's licence issued by the Australian Jockey Club (AJC) in January 1992.

Her first winner was the horse Gifted Poet in March 1992, and her first Group One winner was Te Akau Nick in the Metropolitan Handicap in October that year. After her father, T. J. Smith became ill, he passed on the Tulloch Lodge stable to her in the 1994–95 season.

Waterhouse first achieved fame in Australia when Nothin' Leica Dane came into the Melbourne Cup in 1995 after winning the Victoria Derby three days earlier. The three-year-old colt ran second in the Melbourne Cup, a race which no three-year old had won since Skipton in 1941.

During the 1996–97 season, she had ten Group One wins and won her first Sydney premiership.

In 2001, Waterhouse trained the first, second, and third place-getters in the Golden Slipper and added the first of three successive Sydney training premierships, culminating with 156 wins in 2002/03, equalling her father's Sydney training record.

In the 2004–05 racing season, Waterhouse had eleven Group One wins and added a fifth Sydney training premiership.

As of 2014, the Waterhouse stable at Tulloch Lodge has won 126 Group One races.

Waterhouse's other successful horses include Golden Slipper winners Dance Hero, Ha Ha and Sebring. Prolific Group One winners Grand Armee, Juggler, and All Our Mob as well as two time Epsom Handicap winner Desert War.

Waterhouse won the 2010 BMW Caulfield Cup with Descarado.

On 5 November 2013, Waterhouse won her first Melbourne Cup with Fiorente

MILESTONES
   Gai Waterhouse was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame on Monday 26th November 2007.

   Recorded 11 Group 1 wins in 2004/2005 season setting her all time record

   Equalled her all time best record with 11 Group 1 Wins in the 2006/2007 season

   Licensed AJC trainer January 3, 1992

   Gifted Poet - first winner March 15, 1992 Hawkesbury Superfecta Hcp

   First Group winner - Moods (1992 Gosford Cup Group Three)

   First Group One winner - Te Akau Nick (October 5, 1992 AJC Metropolitan)

   First classic winner - Nothin' Leica Dane (1995 VRC Victoria Derby)

   Third trainer in history to prepare 100-plus Sydney winners (season 1996-97 104.5 wins)

   100th black type win - May 1998 with Zabeel filly Zacheline

   Won Sydney trainer's premiership 1996-97 with 104.5 wins

   Recorded 10 Group One wins in 1996-97 - only the sixth trainer to do so in one season.

   Winning the Gr 1 AJC Doncaster Handicap in 4 successive years - 6 times in 12 years.

   Being the only trainer to quinella the Doncaster and Sydney Cup (both Gr 1) in the same season.

   Winner of the 2001 Golden Slipper trifecta with Ha Ha, Excellerator and Red Hannigan - a feat never achieved in this race.

   Equalling her father's record of training 156 metropolitan winners in a season, in 2002-03.

   Training 2004 Champion 2YO of the Year Dance Hero to become the horse to win the Magic Millions and Golden Slipper, as well as the Sydney 2YO Triple Crown.

   Honoured with the VRC and Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners Association Archer *Award for outstanding achievement and contribution to the racing industry

   Presented the Sarah Kennedy Award for Contribution to Racing

   Winner of the Westpac Business Owner Award and named NSW Top Businesswoman at the Telstra NSW Businesswoman of the Year 2000.

GET INVOLVED

Every year, Gai and her selection team purchase yearlings at the major sales on behalf of existing owners and those clients experiencing ownership for the first time.

Getting involved with Gai is easy.

Through Dynamic Syndications there are various syndicate options.

Racing your own 'Dynamic Champion’ with Gai doesn’t cost a fortune.

"Dynamic have had enormous success with reasonably-priced yearlings," Gai declares.

"Syndicates are vital because owners are the foundation of racing. The more people we have involved the more vibrant the industry will be," Gai rightly claims.

"Personally, I find training for a syndicate particularly rewarding because all concerned get so much enjoyment from an inherently affordable investment."

Just some of the sale ring bargains trained by Gai include: (prizemoney - cost price)

Bentley Biscuit   ($1,446,725 - $120,000)
Aqua A'more   ($1,936,850 - $350,000)
Assertive Lad   ($3.3 million - $110,000)
Dance Hero   ($3,910,440 - $90,000)
Ha Ha       ($2.9 million - $300,000)
Juggler       ($2.4 million - $38,000)
Excellerator   ($2.3 million - $50,000)
Nothin' Leica Dane   ($1.7 million)
Shamekha   ($1.1 million - $70,000)
Sprint By   ($1.1 million - $28,000)
Dress Circle   ($939,000 - $100,000)
How Funny   ($882,000 - $90,000)
Danglissa   ($834,000 - $45,000)
Assertive Lass   ($685,000 - $38,000)
Kingsgate   ($573,000 - $45,000)
Stoway       ($551,000 - $55,000)
Fiery Venture   ($540,000 - $110,000)
Secret Land   ($501,000 - $50,000)

AFFORDABLE RACING

Despite Gai's position of leadership, her current daily rate for training is well below that recommended by the Australian Trainers' Association and below that of several of her lesser performed peers.

Gai explains: "We are results driven. We receive a percentage of prizemoney, as all trainers do and we're happy to rely on our hard work and results to keep our training fees affordable reasonable".

Owners are invoiced monthly in accordance with the percentage of the horse each owns. The itemised statement will include all expenses incurred except transportation and veterinary which are billed direct.

COME AND SEE YOUR HORSE

Every Sunday, from 11 a.m. to noon, the stables are open for owners to inspect their horse and discuss its progress with Gai and her key staff. Stay behind for refreshments in the beautifully-appointed T J Smith Room, to celebrate victories and to meet fellow owners. Viewing can be arranged outside this time by appointment.

WORRY-FREE OWNERSHIP

For all Dynamic Syndications horse, our team in conjunction with Gai manages the horses' careers at every stage, from purchase in the sale ring and all the necessary paperwork, spelling and pre-training, right through to on-sale or retirement. It's worry-free ownership.

DYNAMIC turns GAI as WATERHOUSE & WATT become the Ultimate DYNAMIC DUO

Managing Director Dean Watt has formally announced to the marketplace that Dynamic Syndications have entered into a strategic alliance with Australia’s First Lady of Racing – Gai Waterhouse.

The union had been in the pipeline for some time, as both parties were eager to explore exciting new possibilities.

It’s a perfect evolution for both Gai Waterhouse Racing and Dynamic Syndications.

Gai Waterhouse Racing, singularly the most prominent and successful brand in racing, has linked with Australia’s highest profile and most successful syndication company.

Dean Watt said:

“We believe the benefits are significant for both parties.

I am delighted to form such a commercially strong and highly visible coalition with Hall of Fame Champion Trainer Gai.

This allows existing and new clients to experience racing at an even higher level which they all deserve.

It certainly identifies with our business motto of RACE THE BEST – WITH THE BEST.”

The Team at Dynamic are eager to commence yearling inspections for the upcoming Magic Millions Sale.

We anticipate it shall be extremely busy 2015 as we look to secure the best yearlings we can, to supply Gai and our other leading trainers.

Dynamic Syndications had a record year of share sales in 2014, based upon many factors including an incredibly high 85% Runners : Winners and 97% Runners : Prizemoney Earners.

The addition of Gai Waterhouse Racing to the team certainly offers Dynamic Syndications the opportunity to expand their success in 2015.