Our Trainers

Below is a list of our trainers.

Gerald Ryan

Gerald Ryan was a former top jockey and is now a multiple group one Sydney based trainer. He has trained champions including Hurricane Sky, Paint, Clangalang, and Snitzel in various Group 1 races. Gerald trains from oncourse stables at Rosehill, New South Wales.

David Hayes

David Hayes took over the helm of Lindsay Park for five years in 1990, during which time he won every Premiership in Melbourne and Adelaide, including training Jeune to a Melbourne Cup.

His success continued in Hong Kong from 1996 – 2005, winning two Hong Kong Premierships and scoring seven wins in Group 1 races. Since his return to Australia, he has been dominant, training horses of the calibre of champion filly Miss Finland and five time Group 1 winner Niconero. David now bases himself at Flemington and his state of the art training complex at Euroa.

Mick Price

Based at Caulfield in Melbourne, Mick Price has consistently trained over 100 winners per season in the past 6 years. During the 2009/10 season he achieved his 16th Group 1 winner with Velocitea taking out the Goodwood Handicap. In 2005, Mick maintained his fantastic record with 2 year olds, winning both the colt and filly divisions of the Blue Diamond with Perfectly Ready and Doubting.

Lindsey Smith

Lindsey is very innovative in his training methods. He has 11 Group 1 winners to his name including Plastered in the VRC Derby and the Australia Cup with Old Comrade. Lindsey loves training on his boutique property in WA.

Leon Corstens

Leon Corstens has been around horses all of his life on both sides of the fence. He was an up and coming jockey in South Australia, until a tragic track fall took race riding away from him. After the fall Leon was approached by the mercurial Bart Cummings to take over the reins as stable foreman, which he accepted and the rest is history. The pair proved a formidable force for 25 years, wining Derby’s, Oaks and numerous Melbourne Cups with such horses as Hyperno, Think Big, Kingston Rule, Shiva’s Revenge, Shaftesbury Avenue and Let’s Elope. In 1994 Leon decided to part ways with Bart to train in his own right and it wasn’t before long that he tasted group 1 success with Cherontessa, wining the South Australasian Oaks. He has trained a swag of group winners including Miss Power Bird, Royale Exit, Night Chaser, Lord Luskin, Magic Music, Mr Martini and the triple group one winner Helenus.