Australia’s premier trainer Ciaron Maher will move into Randwick’s Leilani Lodge, officially ending the Cummings family’s near 50-year association with the stables.

Ciaron Maher
Ciaron Maher will establish a base at Randwick. (Photo: Bronwen Healy - The Image Is Everything)

The Australian Turf Club confirmed on Thursday morning that the board had granted Maher access to the 59-box on-course stable complex on High Street adjacent to Sydney’s best-known racecourse, Royal Randwick.

Maher, whose NSW operation also has boxes at Warwick Farm, Bong Bong and at Bobs Farm north of Newcastle, was awarded Leilani Lodge over fellow applicants Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.

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