At 49, Craig Williams may become Melbourne’s oldest premiership-winning jockey but he is far from alone when it comes to defying his birth certificate to eclipse the best in town this season.
Part of Chris Waller’s success over the past 15 years has been his ability to compete at scale. But as Run The Numbers reports, his record-breaking feats of this season have been achieved without a significant growth in the core number of horses in his stable.
Australia's two-year-old ranks provide an invaluable insight into the future of the racing and breeding industry. Run The Numbers examines the season's juvenile winners, their trainers, owners, sires and sale-ring prices and finds Lindsay Park’s re-emergence as a powerhouse of Australian two-year-old racing.
Only 10 commercial-level stallions in Australia have had their fees raised ahead of the 2026 breeding season, but, as Run The Numbers finds out, service prices remain close to record highs.
As Chris Waller and James McDonald scaled new Group 1 heights, Snitzel produced a season of Group 1 dominance not seen in 20 years. Run The Numbers looks back over the elite-racing season.
A true Australasian success story on the track and in the breeding shed, the influence of Savabeel, who died last week aged 24, will be felt for years to come on both sides of the Tasman. His phenomenal record is the focus of this week’s Run The Numbers.
After a week where the fate of the famous Shergar yet again hit the headlines, the legacy of a more fortunate kidnappee, Fanfreluche, continued to build as Tron Bolt became the eighth Australian Group 1-winning maternal descendant of the champion Canadian mare.
Any stallion running at 12 per cent stakes-winners-to runners is always going to prove a commercial hit, but when you add in the scarcity factor of fertility limitation, it creates a formula where you can expect records to be broken. Such has been the tale of the latest yearling crop by Newgate’s Extreme Choice.
In the space of seven years, the number of broodmares and race fillies offered annually at live auctions in Australia has slumped by close to 70 per cent. The switch to digital sales has changed the landscape for selling breeding stock. Run The Numbers digs into the details.
Chris Waller has added his name to the most revered horsemen in Australia with his 200th Group 1 victory, becoming just the third, alongside TJ Smith and Bart Cummings, to mark that milestone. But it is the speed at which he has done it, just over 18 years from his first that makes it such an extraordinary effort.
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