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.