Hide Show Actress 2 credits. Presta as Gai Smith. Jo as Gai Smith. Hide Show Self 8 credits. Self uncredited. Self - Australian Horse Trainer Legend. Self - Trainer. Self - Audience Member. Self as Gai Smith. Hide Show Archive footage 10 credits. Her first runner in a jumps race won. Considering the education Gai received during her 12 year apprentice with T.
Since her humble beginnings as a solo trainer in January , Gai has gone on to achieve as much as humanly possible with racehorses. While many would rest on their laurels after such success, Gai simply wants to win more and more. Owners can rest assured that the Lady Trainer wants to win races just as much if not more than they do!
Confirmation of this dedication to excellence came after just fifteen years of training when Gai was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame As we stand, in just over 20 years of training, Gai has amassed over Group One wins and currently sits third on the all-time list Group One winners behind T.
Smith and Bart Cummings. To put this in perspective, in T. Gai, having won the Golden Slipper with Vancouver, is now on par with her great father with six Slipper wins.
There are few figures - few promoters - in racing like Waterhouse. I surround myself with young people. Those who know Waterhouse describe her as a hard taskmaster, but one who instills trust in both her staff and her horses, as well as an ambition to be the best. Sydney jockey Tim Clark said Waterhouse has pushed many young racing participants, including himself, to be that little bit better all the time.
In one story Waterhouse shared to her stable website, she retold a time when she saw that attention to detail from her co-trainer Bott. His daughter would be following a tough act.
Gai found support among senior members of the Australian Jockey Club committee only for them to later humiliate her by denying her application on the basis of her association with her banned husband.
In a landmark case that led to a change to the Anti-Discrimination Act known as the Waterhouse Amendment, she was granted a licence. In January , Gai Waterhouse became a trainer. Gai and Robbie Waterhouse In , with a fading TJ too frail to manage the empire, he passed on control to his daughter.
Within a few years he was happy to declare: "She's better than me! Gai Waterhouse succumbed to horse racing, and studied under her father for 15 years as an apprentice, before obtaining her own license in , and, in due course taking the title of Randwick's leading trainer. In the season of , her father became ill, and conceded the Tulloch Lodge stable to her. Gai Waterhouse hit the big time at the Melbourne Cup in , when Nothin' Leica Dane came into the race, just three days after winning the Victoria Derby.
This was the first three year-old to have done so since Skipton in In Gai Waterhouse was named NSW State Businesswoman of the Year in the annual Telstra Awards and in she made racing history by winning the trifecta in the Golden Slipper - the first time it had ever been done. Waterhouse continued to produce excellent results and by the beginning of she notched up her 75th win in Group One races for the Gai Waterhouse stable at Tulloch Lodge, and was also inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in November of the same year.
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