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    • Twelve-time Champion Trainer Mark Walker, who ticked over 2000 career wins last year, added to his achievements at The Australian Jumps Racing Association (AJRA) 2025 AJRA Mosstrooper Awards, held on Saturday in Melbourne. The Mosstrooper Awards celebrate the very best in jumps racing: the horses, trainers, jockeys, ground staff, and all those that make jumps racing thrive. In a series of jumps races, Walker recorded the highest number of points to win the JJ Houlahan Championship – Champion Trainer Award. Walker has always had a soft spot of jumpers, highlighted by training some of the best in the past two seasons in Victoria, from the Te Akau stable at Cranbourne, and made history in August this year when becoming the first trainer to ever trifecta the prestigious Grand National Steeplechase (4500m), won by Leaderboard (Street Cry), followed by stable-mates The Mighty Spar (Savabeel) and Prismatic (Savabeel). In 2024, Walker had six wins and four seconds from 13 starts over fences last season, shared two wins apiece by Prismatic (Savabeel), The Mighty Spar (Savabeel), and Leaderboard (Street Cry), while the same trio were to the fore this season, with The Mighty Spar winning four steeplechases in a row and Leaderboard, the former Wellington Cup (Gr. 3, 3200m) and St Leger (Listed, 2600m) winner, notching three wins during the jumps season. “It was an honour to win the Jumps Trainer Award, especially named after the legendary Jim Houlahan, who was a true icon of the sport and Hall of Fame trainer,” Walker said. “It was a great day the Grand National day, the first time in history in Australia that the trifecta in the Steeplechase came from the same stable, and quite amazing because we only had the three jumpers going around throughout the season. “I’ve always found the jumpers to be great in helping to educate the yearlings and giving them confidence. We’ve always had a few jumpers over the years – not many – just a handful, and they’re great schoolmasters. “It’s a twofold thing, the enjoyment we get out of having a few runners through the winter, when we don’t have many for wet track racing on the flat, and it keeps up the staff’s enthusiasm through the long, cold, wet, winters, and also, as mentioned, the help in educating the young ones.” View the full article
    • Bold front running mare Pride Of Jenni (Pride Of Dubai) will be out to light up The Valley once again when she chases back-to-back wins in the Gr.2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) on Friday night. Ciaron Maher’s eight-year-old will be first up since May and had Declan Bates in the saddle for her Monday morning gallop at the tight inner city circuit, with Maher receiving positive feedback from the Irishman. “He said he felt she was pretty relaxed for the first half of the gallop and wanted to rip down the second, so he was pretty happy,” Maher said. Pride Of Jenni has endured a topsy turvy time over the past twelve months. The three-time Group One winner won the Feehan Stakes last spring and was an emphatic winner of the Gr.2 Peter Young Stakes (1800m) in the autumn, however, she has also suffered resounding defeats in the Gr.1 Cox Plate (2040m), Gr.1 Champions Mile (1600m), Gr.1 Australian Cup (2000m), Gr.1 Doomben Cup (2000m) during that period. Maher suggested though that Pride Of Jenni still had the zest for racing. “She’s a pretty easy read, she lets you know when she’s had enough,” he said. “All the signs are pretty good, but I suppose, older mare, you always want to see it.” Pride Of Jenni has had two jumpouts leading into her first up run for the spring, where the Gr.1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) looms as a potential target for her. “She’s improving with each gallop and jumpout,” Maher said. “The first one she was a bit soft; her second trial she trialled a lot better. She’s come on nicely for that, Dec was pretty happy with her this morning. “She’s heading in the right direction.” View the full article
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