2018 Australian Racing Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

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The 2018 class of the Australian Racing Hall of Fame was announced on Tuesday, with Colin Hayes AM OBE raised to Legend status and Chris Waller, Malcolm Johnston, John Size and W.A. Smith among the intake. The ceremony will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney and is hosted by Racing NSW. Hayes, already a member of the Hall of Fame who won 28 Adelaide and 13 Melbourne training premierships and sent out 5,333 winners, will be honoured with the highest possible accolade as a Legend of the Hall of Fame. The trainer will join Phar Lap (NZ), Bart Cummings and Tommy Smith in that exclusive category.

Waller has won seven successive Sydney premierships and is also the trainer of Winx (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}), currently the world’s highest rated racehorse on the Longines World’s Best Racehorse Rankings, who has won 25 races in a row.

“To receive such an accolade and to be held in the esteemed company of recently inducted trainers such as Bart Cummings, Tommy Smith, Colin Hayes, Jack Denham, and the many other outstanding trainers past and present who have been inducted, all I can say is that I am truly humbled and honoured,” said Waller.

Three-time Sydney champion jockey Malcolm Johnston was the regular partner of the great Kingston Town (Aus), and was also champion hoop runner-up on four other occasions. John Size, who started out training in Australia, has earned nine champion Hong Kong trainer titles and also holds the record of most winners trained in a season there. William Arthur “Billy” Smith rode for 40 years as a lightweight jockey, winning the Melbourne Jockeys’ Premiership in 1960-61 and the 1960 Melbourne Cup aboard Hi Jinx (NZ).

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