Eating the paint off the walls...Gai Waterhouse, the #1 Lady of Racing reckons she's had a disastrous year financially....Only 73 winners. She says: 'I want to be winning 100 races in Sydney and 10 Grp 1s every year and that is the break-even point...It has been a financially disastrous year this season. I have more than 100 staff and a wages bill of more than $60,000 a week...I haven't got anyone backing me like the chicken kings [the Inghams] or Darley, so unless I'm training winners I'm going
Eating the paint off the walls...Gai Waterhouse, the #1 Lady of Racing reckons she's had a disastrous year financially....Only 73 winners. She says: 'I want to be winning 100 races in Sydney and 10 Grp 1s every year and that is the break-even point...It has been a financially disastrous year this season. I have more than 100 staff and a wages bill of more than $60,000 a week...I haven't got anyone backing me like the chicken kings [the Inghams] or Darley, so unless I'm training winners I'm going out backwards...I want to be back up there and that is the challenge for next season. I have a very good team of horses and I'm confident we will get the stable up and going again.' Gai's team for the new season centres on some useful 3YOs. The $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill on Aug 28 the first target. Squamosa and autumn stars More Strawberries and Brightexpectations are her main prospects for the GR. Herculian Prince and Once Were Wild look like two of her best chances for the spring staying races.