How do the Australians do it?
Frankel apart, all the talk has been of Black Caviar, the Australian super filly who has swept all before her, winning 21 successive races prior to her Royal Ascot engagement. The five-year-old hopes to join the impressive band of Australian horses that have made waves on the European stage.
Elite athletes - equine or human - need to be structurally sound with the power to perform. Feed them well, keep them fit and ready and will get them on to the track to do what they were born to do - win races. It's the method that saw the legendary Australian trainer Tommy Smith win 34 Sydney training titles and a world record 279 Group One races - "bone and muscle" was coined to describe how Smith's runners would invariably seem to be rock hard fit, in superb condition and always hard to get past in a tight finish.
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THIS ARTICLE FIRST APPEARED IN - EUROPEAN TRAINER - ISSUE 38
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Author: Mitchell Lamb
TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Michael Figge
The TRM Trainer of the Quarter Award goes to Michael Figge who started off in racing by being a successful amateur jockey, winning 31 races, he was once leading amateur in Germany and also Fegentri vice-champion. He then followed in his fathers footsteps by because a trainer in 2006 and saddled the Italian Derby winner in 2012.
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Author: David Conolly-Smith
Robert and Rodolphe Collet
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(European Trainer - issue 37 - Spring 2012)
Lucy Wadham: a trainer with a dual purpose
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(European Trainer - issue 36 - Winter 2011)
An industry held to ransom by African Horse Sickness
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(European Trainer - issue 36 - Winter 2011)
TRM Trainer of the Quarter - Ed Dunlop
The TRM Trainer of the Quarter goes to Ed Dunlop after the Classic winning trainer has been tested this season but his harrowing year finally came right when his champion filly Snow Fairy retained her title in Japan's Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup (Gr 1) on 13th November.
Editorial Writer (European Trainer - Issue 36 / Winter 2011)