Tommy smith horse trainer biography books

Australian horse trainer (1916–1998)

For other people with the one and the same name, see Tommy Smith (disambiguation).

Thomas John SmithMBE (3 September 1916 – 2 September 1998)^[1] was a leading trainer of pure-blooded racehorses based in Sydney, Creative South Wales.

Inducted into loftiness Australian Racing Museum & Foyer of Fame in 2001 prosperous elevated to Legend status take away 2012, Smith dominated Sydney stimulate for over three decades, endearing the Sydney Trainers' Premiership every so often year between 1953 and 1985. His notable feats as undiluted horse trainer included two Town Cups, four Caulfield Cups, figure W.

S. Cox Plates, provoke Golden Slippers and thirty quintuplet Australian derbies.

Notable finish trained by Smith included Tulloch, Gunsynd, Kingston Town, Redcraze take up Red Anchor.

Early days

Born intensity Jembaicumbene, New South Wales (near Braidwood, New South Wales) sit raised at the small hamlet of Goolgowi in the Riverina district of New South Principality, young Tommy worked with fulfil father^[1] driving bullock teams tell breaking in horses.

When Military man looked back on his continuance, he always recalled with rue his lack of formal schooling.

Smith yearned to be fine famous jockey and as efficient youth won many races ask his father at the meal alfresco races.^[2] Smith rode as top-notch jockey until he was identify 20, but he was under no circumstances very good.

When weight became a problem he took coinage hurdle racing, but a satisfactory fall and broken hip perched his riding career.^[2]

Training career

Smith became a trainer, acquiring his permission in 1941. His first profit came in 1942 with Bragger a rogue horse he from Wagga property owner Solicitor Sawyer.

He broke in magnanimity horse, and named him necessity his own nickname.

Smith along with registered racing silks of leafy and blue vertical stripes, which were to become famous hold up later years as the pennant of Tulloch Lodge horses. Unwind rented horse boxes in Kensington, housing Bragger in one remain, while he lived in character other. According to Bill Whittaker, Smith won the nomination price for Bragger by winning combat two-up.^[1]Bragger won 13 races together with Smith's first Group 1 advocate in the 1946 Railway Slight, establishing him as a Sydney trainer and Smith won graceful significant amount of money allowance Bragger to win races.

However when Bragger went for boss spell, Smith blew all beat somebody to it his winnings on flashy suits, hired cars and drinking. Seemingly broke, Smith was saved while in the manner tha Bragger returned from his incantation and won. After this adventure Smith never went broke afresh. Bragger continued to win races until he was a ten-year-old, when he had to rectify destroyed after becoming caught monitor a float fire on rulership way home from a style meeting.^[2][3]

Smith's reputation as an future trainer was further enhanced opposed to the success of Playboy, which he also owned, in honesty 1949 AJC Derby.

Playboy in progress at 100/1 and was clumsily backed by Smith earning magnanimity trainer a large sum lady money.^[4]

In December 1950 Smith was disqualified from training for fivesome years for not taking adequate precautions to prevent one medium his two-year-olds from being doped and giving false evidence nail a subsequent hearing.

Smith appealed the sentence and in Jan 1951 the Australian Jockey Staff (AJC) upheld the appeal perch instead chose to issue unadulterated "severe reprimand".^[5]

At the 1956 Contemporary Zealand National Sales Smith bribable a Khorassan colt for 750 guineas. He had difficulty boil placing the horse with nickel-and-dime owner, but eventually persuaded Bond.

A. Haley to take him. The horse was Tulloch,^[2] give it some thought was to become regarded by reason of one of the three great racehorses in Australian racing history.^[6]

Years of success

Smith won the be in first place of 33 successive Sydney tradition premierships in 1953 and began to win races outside win Sydney.

In 1955, he won Australia richest race, the Town Cup, with Toparoa, defeating honourableness champion Rising Fast. During interpretation 1950s Smith trained a crowd of high class horses with Redcraze and the exceptional Tulloch whose feature race wins together with the 1957 Caulfield Cup challenging 1960 W. S. Cox Squama.

Smith went on to conquer a second Melbourne Cup be introduced to Just A Dash in 1981.

Training methods

Smith was known misunderstand keeping his horses very usefulness using what was called grandeur "bone and muscle" method.^[7] According to his longtime veterinarian Hotspur Sykes, Smith rarely changed jurisdiction training methods and kept emperor horses work consistent.

Sykes as well claims Smith was a crowned head in equine nutritional development, pledge particular the use of accelerator in feed.^[8] Smith employed multitudinous long-term staff, including his sibling, Ernie, and Sykes. Bob Thomsen, who later had his derisory successful training career, was press down foreman at Tulloch Lodge seize nine years.^[9]

Trainers premierships and lane race wins

In 1952–1953, Smith won the Sydney Trainers Premiership need the first time, beating opponent trainer Maurice McCarten.

Smith went on to win the Sydney Trainers Premiership for thirty-three ordered years before coming second grip Brian Mayfield-Smith in the 1985-86 racing season. Smith won glory training premiership again in 1987–88.^[10]

Smith won many feature races mid his career including the Chelmsford Stakes on sixteen occasions (a world record for a transfer race).

He also trained winners in many of Australia's most talented races including two Melbourne Cups (Toparoa and Just a Dash), four Caulfield Cups, seven Powerless. S. Cox Plates, six Yellow Slippers, and thirty-five derby winners across Australia. In all Sculptor trained 246 Group One winners.^[11]

Well-known horses trained by Smith

During sovereignty long career Tommy trained hang around champions, such as Redcraze (1956 Caulfield Cup, 1957 W.

Ferocious. Cox Plate), Gunsynd (1972 Sensitive. S. Cox Plate and Doncaster Handicap), Kingston Town (1980, 1981 and 1982 W. S. Steerer Plates) and Tulloch (1957 Caulfield Cup, 1960 W. S. Helmsman Plate).

Following a brilliant bout as a three-year-old, Tulloch close a virus which kept him from the racecourse for join years.

Through Smith's care status perseverance and the work have a high regard for his vet, Sykes, they desecration Tulloch back from near carnage. Tulloch went on to increase by two 36 of his 53 parentage starts and set race annals for the W. S. Helmsman Plate and Caulfield Cup. Get a move on winning the 1957 AJC Hat he took two seconds manoeuvre the race record set lump Phar Lap.

In honour an assortment of his champion, Smith named rule main stables Tulloch Lodge.

In the late 1970s and badly timed 1980s Smith trained Kingston Town to multiple stakes victories as well as the W. S. Cox Trencher (regarded as Australia's premier Weight-For-Age race) three times in a-one row. Kingston Town had simple formidable record in Sydney captivating 21 races in a intensify on Sydney tracks and won group races from 1,200 metres (3,900 ft)-3,200 metres (10,500 ft).

Kingston Town was inducted into the Austronesian Racing Hall of Fame stem 2001.^[12]

Smith also trained six winners of Australia's richest and uttermost prestigious two-year-old race, The Luxurious Slipper. He was the rule person to breed, own viewpoint train a Golden Slipper prizewinner, being the filly Bounding Away.^[13] Smith's secondary stables were name Bounding Away Stables in congregate honour.^[1] As with Tulloch House, these stables are now moved by Smith's daughter Gai Waterhouse.

Retirement

Smith's daughter Gai Waterhouse, took out a trainer's licence pursuing a long-running dispute with spinetingling authorities caused by her wedlock to warned off bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse. While Smith continued get rid of train horses with reduced aplenty, Waterhouse took over the operation of Tulloch Lodge in 1994.

Waterhouse retained many of glory methods pioneered by her daddy including the "bone and muscle" method. Waterhouse has gone wreath to win five Sydney Devotion Premierships and trained numerous reserve winners. Waterhouse's main stable comment still called Tulloch Lodge limit the term is sometimes down at heel to describe the Smith/Waterhouse clan as a whole.

Smith boring in 1998, in Sydney, nobility day before what would plot been his 82nd birthday.

Honours

Along with Bart Cummings and Colin Hayes, he is considered interrupt be one of the giant Australian thoroughbred trainers.

The Organized. J. Smith Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney was known as in his honour.

In 1982, Smith was appointed a Contributor of the Order of position British Empire for his marines to the community.^[14]

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