AUSTRALIAN RACING FACT BOOK 2010 A GUIDE TO THE RACING INDUSTRY IN AUSTRALIA EMirates Melbourne CUP, Courtesy of Victoria Racing Club. 2 www.australianracingboard.com.au AUSTRALIAN RACING FACT BOOK 2010 3 Front Cover Photograph: Courtesy of Perry Cho The Australian Racing Fact Book is compiled and edited by the Australian Racing Board’s Racing Executive, Mr Jake Howard. If you have any comments or suggestions on this publication please email them to [email protected] Although every effort has been made to ensure the information provided in the Australian Racing Fact Book is correct, this publication may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors. No part of this publication can be reproduced without prior written consent from the Australian Racing Board. 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ACT racing materials, including fields, form and results, is subject to copyright which is owned by Canberra Racing Club Inc and other parties working with it. 4 www.australianracingboard.com.au Australian Racing Fact Book 2010 A Guide to the Racing Industry in Australia AUSTRALIAN RACING FACT BOOK 2010 5 welcoME 2010 The Australian Racing Board is pleased to publish the Twelfth Edition of the Australian Racing Fact Book, our annual reference guide to the Australian thoroughbred racing industry. The Board’s objective in publishing the Fact Book is to draw together under one cover the key results and statistics for the Australian thoroughbred sector for each season. While a number of books and journals report in detail particular aspects of Australian racing and breeding, we can well and truly say that the Australian Racing Board’s 1999 vision has been achieved, and the Fact Book has established itself as a useful and reliable source of the broadest range of information relating to Australian thoroughbred racing and breeding. The facts and figures contained in the Fact Book will speak for themselves. To breathe some life into this statistical record it is useful to briefly touch on some of the stand-out achievements that have occurred during the period under review. 2010 saw the Bart Cummings trained So You Think claim four Group 1 races including his second Cox Plate, before going on to run a gallant third in the Melbourne Cup behind French-trained horse, Americain. As well as siring the Cox Plate winner, stallion High Chaparral also provided Gai Waterhouse with her first Caulfield Cup victory, with Descarado taking out the event. Typhoon Tracy claimed the tightly contested Champion Racehorse of the year award for trainer Peter Moody after taking out the Group 1 Myer Classic, Group 1 C F Orr Stakes, Group 1 Futurity Stakes and Group 1 Queen of the Turf Stakes. Crystal Lily took out the honors as Champion 2yo of the year after winning the Golden Slipper providing trainers Matthew Ellerton & Simon Zahra, along with jockey Brett Prebble, with their first win in this iconic race. Stepping back to examine the broader canvas, 2010 marked the bicentenary of racing in this country. In October 1810 Governor Macquarie, officers of the 73rd regiment and emancipated convicts – pimps, prostitutes, forgerers and other felons - rubbed shoulders together at a three day race meeting in Hyde park Sydney. Perhaps this was the seed from which Australian democracy was born – the sense that on the turf, and under it, all men are equal. Two centuries later Australian racing spans both the calendar and the continent: some 400 race clubs conduct 17,000 races barring only Good Friday and Christmas day. 120,000 flock to Flemington on the first Tuesday in November and in September the population of Birdsville in remote outback Queensland swells from 100 to 6,000 for a two-day race meeting. Somewhere along the way the sport of racing has become the Australian racing industry. The second-largest foal crop in the world is exported to 24 countries as well as putting 200,000 starters on Australian race tracks every year. To give you some sense of the scale: 50,000 employees, $5 billion in gross domestic product, and 2 million Australians attending at least one race meeting a year. Compiling the Fact Book depends on the co-operation of a range of people and organisations, and our genuine thanks are expressed to them for their willing assistance. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the enterprise and excellent work performed by Jake Howard and Ashley Broderick, the Fact Book’s editor and compiler respectively. They have worked long hours and with great diligence, resulting in this outstanding publication. R G (Bob) Bentley Chairman Australian Racing Board Limited 6 www.australianracingboard.com.au 8 AUSTRALIAN RACING STRUCTURE 10 RACING 12 RACING STATISTICS 13 PRIZEMONEY 14 STAKES RACES 15 GROUP & LISTED RACES 16 GROUP ONE WINNERS 17 LEADING PRIZEMONEY EARNERS 18 RACEHORSE OF the year 20 MELBOURNE CUP 22 GOLDEN SLIPPER 24 PREMIERSHIPS 26 COURSE RECORDS 28 BREEDING 30 BREEDING STATISTICS 32 BREEDING DISTRIBUTION 34 LEADING SIRES 38 REGISTRATIONS 42 SALES 44 SALES RESULTS 46 IMPORTS & EXPORTS 48 INDUSTRY TRENDS 51 PRIZEMONEY TRENDS 52 RACING TRENDS 54 CLASSIFICATIONS 56 CHAMPION RACEHORSE BY RATING 57 CLASSIFICATIONS BY AGE 60 WAGERING 62 THOROUGHBRED RACING WAGERING TURNOVER 63 THOROUGHBRED RACING WAGERING TURNOVER BY STATE 67 OTHER FORMS OF GAMBLING 68 TOTAL GAMBLING TURNOVER 69 PARI-MUTUEL BET TYPES 70 INTERNATIONAL 72 INTERNATIONAL RACING 73 INTERNATIONAL PRIZEMONEY 74 INTERNATIONAL BREEDING 76 INTERNATIONAL TRENDS 78 DIRECTORY 80 AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORY 92 INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY contents AUSTRALIAN RACING FACT BOOK 2010 7 Australian thoroughbred The Australian Racing Board is the only authority that is empowered PrinciPal Racing Authorities to make the Australian Rules of Racing which for almost a century have provided common practices, conditions and integrity standards The Australian Racing Board’s membership consists of the six State for racing throughout Australia.