TRAINERS PROFILE: GAI WATERHOUSE AND ADRIAN BOTT

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Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott are one of Australia’s leading horse trainers with facilities in Sydney and Melbourne. It’s a partnership which was formed in 2016 between leading Trainer Gai Waterhouse, daughter of racing legend TJ Smith, and Adrian Bott, who grew up in the racing world and has created a well-respected name for himself in the industry.

Adrian and I are consistently one of the top among Australian trainers, in terms of strike rate both in NSW and VIC and prize money earned.

I have trained over 130 Group 1 winners, including six Golden Slippers, eight Metropolitan Handicaps, nine Flight Stakes’ and a Melbourne Cup. Two of my Golden Slipper winners won the two-year-old Triple Crown, Dance Hero and Pierro, and I attained a trifecta in the prestigious Golden Slipper in 2001 (a feat never before achieved in this race).

Adrian and I have already produced five Group 1 winners as a partnership, including Global Glamour who won the Flight Stakes and the 1000 Guineas seven days apart. We also trained our first Group 1 Kennedy Oaks winner with Pinot in the Spring of 2017.

Recent Highlights and Successes Thoroughbred Shares

Feature Race Year Course Class Dist Horse
ALBURY GOLD CUP 2021 ALB OPEN LR 2000 ENTENTE
PARRAMATTA CUP 2021 RHIL 3U OPEN LR 1900 SACRAMENTO
LONHRO PLATE 2021 RAND 2 OPEN LR 1000 TILIANAM
EMPIRE ROSE STAKES 2020 FLEM 3UFM OPEN G1 1600 SHOUT THE BAR
CITY TATT’S CLUB CUP 2020 RAND 3U OPEN LR 2400 KNIGHTS ORDER
KINGSTON TOWN STAKES 2020 RAND 3U OPEN G3 2000 TAIKOMOCHI
FRED BEST CLASSIC 2020 DOOM 3 OPEN G3 1350 DAWN PASSAGE
SCONE GUINEAS 2020 RHIL 3 OPEN 1400 DAWN PASSAGE
HAWKESBURY GUINEAS 2020 RHIL 3 OPEN G3 1400 DAWN PASSAGE
VRC ST LEGER 2020 FLEM 3 OPEN LR 2800 SACRAMENTO
COOLMORE LEGACY (QUEEN OF THE TURF) STAKES 2020 RAND 3UFM OPEN G1 1600 CON TE PARTIRO
CARBINE CLUB STAKES 2020 RAND 3 OPEN G3 1600 ENTENTE
VINERY STUD STAKES 2020 RHIL 3F OPEN G1 2000 SHOUT THE BAR
GOLDEN SLIPPER 2020 RHIL 2 OPEN G1 1200 FARNAN
COOLMORE CLASSIC 2020 RHIL 3UFM OPEN G1 1500 CON TE PARTIRO

Current Season Statistics

As of 21st March 2021

Season Wins Win (%) Places Place (%) Runners G1(w) G2(w) G3(w) LR(w)
2020/21 85 18.40% 122 44.90% 461 1 0 1 4

Training Facilities

  • In addition to Tulloch Lodge, we train out of Tempest Morn Lodge, Bounding Away Lodge, Desert War Lodge, and Sugar Barn Lodge which provide direct access to Randwick Racecourse. We also obtain 24 boxes at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne and have arrangements in other capital cities so we can place horses where they are best positioned to achieve results.
  • Training facilities at Royal Randwick are second-to-none. The techniques employed by Adrian and I include training horses on a variety of track surfaces, swimming – both in the equine pool and at nearby Botany Bay – the handwalking of horses over Randwick’s hills, treadmill work and the use of many modern aids. All horses are weighed on a weekly basis.