Run The Numbers

In the space of one season, Bjorn Baker had gone from a bit-part player in Australia’s juvenile ranks to the leading two-year-old trainer in the country. The changing state of the two-year-old training ranks is front and centre in this week’s Run The Numbers.

There were four stallions who secured their first Australian stakes winners last Saturday, taking the total number of stakes-winning sires this season to 193. This week’s Run The Numbers looks at the significance of Peltzer’s breakthrough success.

As Australia’s busiest Group 1 racing season came to a close, Tashi became the 57th individual horse to win an elite race in 2024/25, a list which also features 30 trainers and 33 different jockeys. This week’s Run The Numbers breaks down all the key figures.

Chris Waller’s influence on the Australian breeding industry extends well beyond just the stallions he has trained himself. This week’s Run The Numbers digs into the number of winners he has prepared by Australia’s top sires.

Newhaven Park’s Cool Aza Beel became the first sire-son descendant of Zabeel to produce a Group 1-winning two-year-old from his first crop. Run The Numbers looks at the ongoing influence of the Zabeel sireline, as well as a prodigious damline influence in Cool Archie’s JJ Atkins win.

The average price of a race filly through public auction in Australia has increased 55.4 per cent in just two years with total investment in mares and fillies bought ‘straight off the track’ now surpassing live auction trade of mares-in-foal. Run The Numbers breaks down this trend.

With the 2020s now past their halfway point, it seems a good time to reflect on the most dominant Australian stallions on the track over the past six-and-half seasons, with one champion dominating almost every category.