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John Sargent (Trainer)
Beginning in the mid-1980s, John Sargent has built an international reputation as a trainer who gets results with horses he has either selected from the auction ring or sourced through stable clients.
After training successfully in New Zealand for many years preparing more than 200 winners, Sargent took up the challenge of relocating to Malaysia. During his stint he topped the trainers premiership and won all the major Group I races in the region. He is a master trainer of stayers, especially mares – and he trained our wonderful mare Miss Moana, before her career was cut short by injury.
Returning to New Zealand in 2002, during the next decade the Sargent stable consolidated its position with a string of major race wins. In 2012, Sargent’s tally of 111 winners set a new record for New Zealand wins in a season.
Now focusing his operations on Sydney’s premier horse training centre, Randwick, “Sarge” is in the ranks of Sydney’s top horse trainers. He trains a number of our horses, including Ningaloo Star, Harlow Mist and Autumn Blonde, and we are very privileged to have him as part of the Tricolours training team.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott (Trainer)
Golden Slipper winning combination of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have now joined the Tricolours team.
With facilities in Sydney and Melbourne, it’s a partnership which was formed in 2016 between Gai Waterhouse – daughter of racing legend TJ Smith – and Adrian Bott, who grew up in the racing world and has a well respected name in the industry.
Gai and Adrian are consistently amongst the top Australian trainers, in terms of strike rate (in NSW and Vic) and also money earned. Gai has trained over 130 Group 1 winners, including 7 Golden Slippers, including Farnan, trained in partnership with Adrian. She has also amassed 8 Metropolitan Handicaps, 9 Flight Stakes and a Melbourne Cup
Tricolours has forged a strong partnership with Gai / Adrian with a highly talented team including The Novelist, Manuscript, The Playwright, Girls Weekend and Enchanted By.
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Brad Widdup (Trainer)
Brad Widdup is regarded by many in the Australian Racing Industry as having the best CV in racing to become a trainer.
Brad was the son of a local Albury racehorse trainer when he decided to move to Sydney at age 17 where he landed his first job as a stablehand with BJ Smith at Eclipse Lodge.
Working with BJ, he was introduced to his first Group One horse, Circles of Gold, who Brad strapped and travelled with to interstate carnivals, Circles of Gold went on to win the Gr 1, AJC Oaks and became the dam of Elvstroem and Haradasun.
Brad was soon approached by trainer Rod Craig to work for him, Brad was only twenty-one years old when he was appointed Foreman and the stable found great success with the giant killer Intergaze. It’s fantastic to have Brad on the Tricolours training team.
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Toby Edmonds and Stephen McLean (Trainer)
Toby Edmonds has been surrounded by horses his whole life.
He started in his teens learning his trade from renowned horseman such as Neville Begg and Peter Snowden based in Scone.
After previous stints at the Gold Coast and Warwick Farm he re-located permanently to his current Gold coast stables back in 2011 and each year he has increased his number of winners whilst maintaining his industry leading strike rate.
We are thrilled to partner with the team and have some very progressive horses coming through their ranks including Ready to Schipp and Booming Bianca.
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Mitch Beer (Trainer)
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Richard and Will Freedman (Trainer)
Richard began training in the 70’s when he trained his first winner at Canberra at age 18 years old – at the time believed to be the youngest ever professional trainer to train a winner in Australian Racing history. He then joined his brothers Lee, Anthony and Michael in the early 80’s. During their 20-year training partnership, the Freedman stable was one of Australia’s most prominent, preparing over 100 Group 1 winners. That includes five Melbourne Cups, four Golden Slippers, four Caulfield Cups and two Cox Plates. Richard then took a break from training in the early 2000’s to pursue a career in broadcast and after 15 successful years covering racing and professional sport, he returned to the training ranks in 2017 with his brother Michael where he oversaw the Rosehill Stables of Freedman Brothers.
Richard’s son Will previously trained at Scone and joined in partnership with his father in April 2022 to form Freedman Training.
Richard and Will have done a terrific job with our star mare Elettrica who has progressed beautifully to be one of Sydney’s most consistent performers since coming to their stables in early 2023.
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John O’Shea and Tom Charlton (Trainer)
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Bjorn Baker (Trainer)
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Nathan Doyle (Trainer)
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Jack Bruce (Trainer)