AVOCA, COUNTRY RaCING VICTORIA Contents 2 CONT E NT 4 Contributors S 5 Welcome 6 Australian Racing Structure 8 RACING 10 Racing Statistics 11 Prizemoney 12 Stakes Races 13 Group & Listed Races 14 Group One Winners 15 Leading Prizemoney Earners 16 Champion Racehorse 18 Premierships 20 Course Records 24 BREEDING 27 Breeding Statistics 28 Breeding Distribution 30 Leading Sires 34 REGISTRATIONS 38 SALES 40 Sales Results 42 Imports & Exports 44 INDUSTRY TRENDS 47 Prizemoney Trends 48 Racing Trends 49 Starters Trends 50 CLASSIFACTIONS 52 Champion Racehorse by Rating 53 Classifications by Age 58 WAGERING 60 Thoroughbred Racing Wagering Turnover 61 Thoroughbred Racing Wagering Turnover by State 67 Other Forms of Gambling 68 Total Gambling Turnover 69 Pari-Mutuel Bet Types 70 INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS 72 International Racing 73 International Prizemoney 75 International Breeding 76 International Trends 78 DIRECTORY 80 Australian Directory 92 International Directory 2 AUSTRALIAN RACING FACT BOOK 2007/08 3 AUSTRALIAN RACING BOARD LIMITED Level 7, 51 Druitt St, Sydney, NSW, 2000 Australia P: + 61 2 9551 7700 F: + 61 2 9551 7708 E: [email protected] I: www.australianracingboard.com.au FRONT COVER: EARLY MORNING TRACkwORK The Australian Racing Fact Book is compiled and edited by the Australian Racing Board’s Racing Executive, Mr Jake Howard. 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CONTRIBUTORS: The Australian Racing Board would like to thank the following people and organisations for their help in compiling this publication: ACT Gambling & Racing Commission, ACT TAB, Arrowfield Stud, Australian Jockey Club, Australian Racing Board Racing Executive: Jake Howard and Secretary: Ashley Broderick, Brisbane Turf Club, Canberra Racing Club Inc., Country Racing Victoria Darwin Turf Club, Ellen McIntyre – The Australian Bloodhorse Review, Gold Coast Turf Club, Greg Carpenter, International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, Lisa Grimm Photography, Magic Millions, Melbourne Racing Club, Michael Ford – Australian Stud Book, Moonee Valley Racing Club, New South Wales Office of Racing, NT Treasury Department of Racing, Gaming and Licensing, Queensland Bookmakers Association, Queensland Racing, Queensland Turf Club, Racing & Wagering Western Australia, Racing NSW, Racing Information Services Australia, Racing Services Tasmania, Racing Victoria Limited, Ms Sally Richardson, SA Office of the Liquor and Welcome Gambling Commissioner, Slickpix, South Australian Jockey Club, Sydney Turf Club, TABCORP Holdings Limited, Tasmanian Gaming Commission, Tasmanian Racing Club, Tasmanian Thoroughbred Racing Council, Tasmanian Turf Club, Thoroughbred Racing N.T, Thoroughbred Racing S.A. 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NT racing materials, including fields and form, is subject to copyright which is owned by TRNT and other parties working with it. © 2008 Canberra Racing Club Inc (CRC) (and other parties working with it). ACT racing materials, including fields and form, is subject to copyright which is owned by CRC and other parties working with it. This material may be used for your personal, non commercial use only. You must not alter, reproduce, disseminate or communicate any of this material without the prior written permission of the Copyright Owners. 4 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx he Australian Racing Board is pleased to publish the Tenth Minister, The Hon. Mr. Tony Burke, extended. Edition of The Australian Racing Fact Book, our annual reference In the breeding industry, the outbreak has resulted in a depleted foal Tguide to the Australian thoroughbred racing industry. crop, with the Australian Stud Book predicting a 13% fall in live foals in NSW and a 17% fall in Queensland. Nationwide, the thoroughbred foal The Board’s objective in publishing the Fact Book is to draw together crop is predicted to fall by 10% from that of the previous year. under one cover the key results and statistics for the Australian This will have an impact on breeders’ incomes, as well as on the thoroughbred sector for each season. While a number of books and size of the racehorse numbers in future years. journals report in detail particular aspects of Australian racing and breeding, we can well and truly say that the Australian Racing Board’s As well as a depleted foal crop, breeders had to contend with the 1999 vision has been achieved, and the Fact Book has established itself suspension of all exports of Australian horses in New Zealand, Hong as a useful and reliable source of the broadest range of information Kong, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Macau, relating to Australian thoroughbred racing and breeding. France and Qatar. Normal trade with New Zealand has still not been reinstated. The facts and figures contained in theFact Book, will speak for themselves. To breathe some life into this statistical record it is useful A report by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource to briefly touch on some of the stand-out achievements that have Economics estimated that the direct costs of the Equine Influenza occurred during the period under review. outbreak during the initial response period, involving containment and eradication through restricted movement, had reached $500,000 per The Ross Macdonald trained Weekend Hussler claimed the Champion day for disease control alone, plus $4.6M per day in forgone income Racehorse of The Year Award after amassing over two millions dollars for businesses affected by Equine Influenza, including racing, farming in prizemoney and accumulating six Group One victories, including and recreational businesses totalling approximately $500M for the the Caulfield Guineas, the Ascot Vale, the Lightning Stakes, the first three months of restricted horse movements. Newmarket Handicap, the Randwick Guineas and the George Ryder. Compounding the loss of revenue was the cost of containing the It was also a year that demonstrated the highs and lows that make up outbreak, including vaccination costs and implementing special racing, with Amelia’s Dream which seemed destined to win the Golden bio-security measures at racecourses and training establishments. Slipper Stakes after a dominant six length victory in the Silver Shadow Stakes, only to fall foul to injury, opening up the passage for stablemate For all these reasons the Australian Racing Board continues to Sebring to take the honours. press so hard for approval to implement a permanent program of vaccination against EI. Other notable performances during the season included El Segundo’s Cox Plate triumph and Efficient’s strong win in the 2007 Melbourne Compiling the Fact Book depends on the co-operation of a range of Cup. people and organisations. Our genuine thanks are expressed to them for their willing assistance. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the Of course, no discussion of the 2007/08 season could omit reference enterprise and excellent work performed by Jake Howard and to Equine Influenza outbreak of which in August 2007 was, quite Ashley Broderick, the Fact Book’s editor and compiler respectively. simply, a disaster for the racing and breeding industries of this country. They have worked long hours and with great diligence, resulting in By noon on 26 August 2007, all weekend race meetings in Australia this outstanding publication. had been cancelled, and in the first week 50 thoroughbred race meetings were lost. The standstill soon lifted elsewhere, but in NSW and Queensland no metropolitan race