History Of The Belmont Newmarket
13 August, 2018
Thoroughbred
BELMONT MARKET OVERVIEW
- The Belmont Newmarket was first run in 1945 and won by Lord Treat, who was again successful and repeated the feat the following year.
- The Listed Belmont Newmarket is the first feature race of the 2018-2019 Perth racing season.
TRAINER
- Colin Webster and Allan Taylor hold the best training record in the Belmont Newmarket with three wins each.
- Webster: Wolf City (1976), Prince Brighton (1978) & Eastern Standard (2004).
- Taylor: Micron (1979-1980) & Wool Zone (1982).
- Current day trainers Neville Parnham: Blonde Jev (1991) & Call Me Henry (2005), Ross Price: Medicine Kid (1993) & Smoko (2014), David Harrison: Casper Cowboy (2010) & Settle Strada (2013) and Simon Miller: First Among Equals (2016) & Meteoroid (2017) are two time winners.
- Three trainers have prepared the Belmont Newmarket winner in successive years, but no trainer has won it three straight years in a row.
- Australian Hall Fame trainer Colin Hayes was a Belmont Newmarket winner when he prepared Desirable in 1977.
JOCKEY
- Paul Harvey has dominated the Belmont Newmarket with seven wins, two clear of his next rival, Frank Treen.
- Harvey won his first Belmont Newmarket with Bradson (1997) and continued on Willoughby (1998), Marasco (2007), Vizard (2008), Escadaire (2009), Kid Choisir (2011) & First Among Equals (2016).
- Frank Treen became the first rider to win a hatrick in the Belmont Newmarket: Eulogium (1948), The Drone (1949). Quicksand (1950) before completing a quintet on All India (1960) & Bernguard (1961).
- Peter Knuckey has one victory in the Belmont Newmarket: Jubilee Myth (1953), his son Peter matched the feat when he partnered the Greg Harper-trained News Review in 1999.
- Sitting behind Paul Harvey and Frank Treen on three wins each are William Pike and Frank Moore.
- Pike took out his maiden Belmont Newmarket on Wire Detonator (2006) before combining with Casper Cowboy (2010) and Smoko (2014).
- Brad Parnham joined his father Neville on the Belmont Newmarket honour roll after teaming up with Call Me Henry (2005).
AGE
- As a 9-year-old Medicine Kid was the oldest horse to win the Belmont Newmarket in 1993 when ridden by Jeremy Hustwitt.
- Willoughby was an 8-year-old when he scored in 1998 for trainer Michael Pateman.
- 5-year-olds hold the best record with 31 wins.
- 4-year-olds have been successful on 16 occasions.
GENDER
- Geldings have dominated the Belmont Newmarket with 41 wins including 15 of the past editions.
- Horses have won 17 races, but the previous was Pago Mystery (1990).
- Mares have won 12 Belmont Newmarket’s including two out of the previous three with Meteoroid (2017) and Wink And A Nod (2015).
BARRIER
- Barriers three and four are the most successful Belmont Newmarket starting positions since records have been kept from 1966.
- They have won the Belmont Market nine times.
- Barriers six, seven and 10 are next with six wins.
- Barrier two is the least successful with no wins.
- Barrier three has been successful four out of the previous seven Belmont Newmarket’s.
BELMONT NEWMARKET 2000-2017
YEAR |
HORSE |
TRAINER |
JOCKEY |
2017 |
Meteoroid |
Simon Miller |
Joe Azzopardi |
2016 |
First Among Equals |
Simon Miller |
Paul Harvey |
2015 |
Wink And A Nod |
Justin Warwick |
Lucy Warwick |
2014 |
Smoko |
Ross Price |
William Pike |
2013 |
Settle Strada |
David Harrison |
Pat Carbery |
2012 |
Cavallo Pazzo |
Ted Martinovich |
Kyra Yuill |
2011 |
Kid Choisir |
Allen McNamara |
Paul Harvey |
2010 |
Casper Cowboy |
David Harrison |
William Pike |
2009 |
Escadaire |
Frank Maynard |
Paul Harvey |
2008 |
Vizard |
George Daly |
Paul Harvey |
2007 |
Marasco |
Fred Kersley |
Paul Harvey |
2006 |
Wire Detonator |
Sharon Miller |
William Pike |
2005 |
Call Me Henry |
Neville Parnham |
Brad Parnham |
2004 |
Eastern Standard |
Colin Webster |
Troy Turner |
2003 |
Fair Alert |
Ray Sweetman |
Alana Williams |
2002 |
Kaprats |
Warren Radford |
Paul King |
2001 |
Prince Of Pop |
Tom Little |
Shaun McGruddy |
2000 |
Fly My Kite |
Rob Mathews |
John Claite |
JULIO SANTARELLI