Trainer Profile

Mick Price

Since taking out his license in 1991, Mick Price has firmly established himself as one of the leading racehorse trainers in Australia.

Some of the stakes performed horses to be trained by Mich include Heart of Dreams, Gallica, Alamosa, Light Fantastic, Rubiscent, Bel Mer, Velocitea, Shinzig, Pompeii Ruler, Rustic Dream, Slavonic, Vocabulary, Kempinsky, French Bid, Halibery, Intelligent Star, Mr Trickster, World Peace, Kylikwong, Tanith, Chattanooga, Amtrak, Red Dazzler, Pure Harmony, Doubting , La Bella Dame etc.

In 2003 Mick trained the trifecta in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Preview with Halibery, Gaelic Princess and Roedean, while World Peace took out the race for the stable in 2004.

Mick kept his fantastic record with two-year-olds intact by winning both the colts and fillies divisions of the Blue Diamond Preludes in 2005 with Perfectly Ready and Doubting.

In 2007 he continued his stakes winning trend by taking out the Group 1 Underwood Stakes with Rubiscent, the Group 2 Sandown Guineas with Schilling and the Group 3 Sandown Stakes with Gotta Have Heart, just to name a few.

Mick has also tasted success in the Futurity Stakes(G1), Railway Stakes (G1), Goodwood Handicap (G1), Toorak Handicap (G1), Norman Carlyon Stakes (G2), Angus Armanasco Stakes (G2), AAMI Vase (G2), Swettenham Stud Stakes (G2), Bill Stutt Stakes (G2), Moonee Valley Cup (G2), Woodstock Stakes (G2), Kewney Stakes (G2), Yallambee Stud Stakes (G2), JJ Liston Stakes (G2), Craiglee Stakes (G2), and been place in the Caulfield Guineas (G1), Yalumba Stakes (G1), 1000 Guineas (G1), Victoria Derby (G1), VRC Oaks (G1), Blue Diamond Stakes (G1), Manikato Stakes (G1), and C.F. Orr Stakes (G12) among others.

2008/2009 Season started off in terrific style with Light Fantastic winning the Group 2 JJ Liston Stakes. The Sth Yarra Stakes Group 3 was won by Vivacious Spirit. Group 1 New Zealander Alamosa won the Group 1 Toorak Hcp and Damselfly won the Group 3 Thoroughbred Club. In total, Mick won six Group 1 races, five Group 2 events, five Group 3 events and six Listed races for the season among his massive total of 124 winners for the racing year.Through working closely with expert trainers like Mick Price, we are able to combine our specialist knowledge of the Australian Stud Book's thoroughbred listings and bloodstock sales to provide you with racehorses that are destined to be nothing short of outstanding. Mick Price has consistently trained over 100 winners per season in the last six years and his strike rate is second to none. This is further highlighted by the tables below:

Source of information:http://www.virtualformguide.com/

From the tables below, it is quite evident that racing a thoroughbred with Mick Price Stable, you are on your way to becoming a winner. Mick Price s one of Australia's Leading trainers in Strike Rate % and winners in the 2011 season.

Table 1
(Leading Trainer by Winners)
M. Price 79
D. Hayes 76
G. Ryan 68
M D. Moroney 54
J. Pride 49
J. O'Shea 46
D. O'Brien 48
MW & J Hawkes 34
C. Conners 27
G. Portelli 19
Table 2
(Leading Trainer by Strike rate %)
M. Price 19.30%
P. Snowden 18%
J. O'Shea 16.80%
D. Freedman 16.5%
G. Ryan 13.10%
C. Waller 12.90%
J.B. Cummings 11.40%
D. Hayes 9.9%
C. Conners 9%
G. Portelli 7.80%

Facilities

Mick has 70 boxes located at Caulfield racecourse in Melbourne with a variety of stables and yards that can cater for any individual horses to work on including turf, synthetic and sand tracks, a safe swimming pool and two tracks for trot and canter work. Mick has a modern 8 horse truck, access to a therapeutic water treadmill and less injuries due to good safe facilities throughout Victoria, as well as various beach and water walker facilities.

As well as the stable environment, horses can be freshened throughout their preparation by spending time at Mick's farm in Lysterfield, just 30 minutes east of Melbourne.
Mick Price's Group 1 Success

19 March 2011
ALOHA
ALOHA claimed her first Group One victory when she outsprinted her rivals in the Coolmore
Classic at Rosehill.

2 May 2010
VELOCITEA WINS THE GOODWOOD
VELOCITEA finishes to strong in the Goodwood after a great preparation which netted 3 wins and a second
placing from 4 starts under the care of Mick Price.
19 Sept 2009
HEART OF DREAMS - Underwood Stakes
2009 Underwood Stakes
25 Apr 2009
POMPEII RULER - Queen Elizabeth Stakes
Randwick - 2009 Queen Elizabeth Stakes
21 Mar 2009
BEL MER - Robert Sangster
2009 Morphetville - Robert Sangster
21 Mar 2009
GALLICA - SA Oaks
2009 South Australian Oaks
15 Oct 2008
GALLICA - Thousand Gunieas
2008 Thousand Gunieas
11 Oct 2008
ALAMOSA - 2008 Toorak HCP
2008 Toorak Handicap
22 Sept 2007
RUBISCENT - UNDERWOOD STAKES GROUP 1
Rubiscent leads all the way in the MRC Underwood
Stakes Group 1
10 Mar 2007
POMPEII RULER - Australian Cup Group 1
Pompeii Ruler has the perfect ride with Craig Newitt aboard

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