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Joe Pride is firmly pegged amongst the elite Sydney trainers on the NSW Metro premiership and maintains an impressive strike with a stable of only 60 horses in work at the one time. He has trained over 1000 career wins to date.
Joe Pride is a small trainer compared to his competition - who now train over six times the horses he does. Amazingly, he has an official career tally of 22 Group 1 wins out of around 50 black type winners. His notable elite-level winners include more recent standouts like Think About It, Private Eye, Ceolwulf, Eduardo, and past years Terravista, and Vision And Power.
Over the last four seasons, Pride Racing has averaged a massive $13.8 million in stakes per year. In the stakes premiership alone, the stable has often sat cemented in fourth position every year behind Waller, Maher, Waterhouse - all of whom train more than 350 horses each.
About
Joe Pride has established himself as one of Australia’s leading thoroughbred trainers. Based at Warwick Farm in Sydney, Pride has built a stable recognised for producing high-quality racehorses capable of competing successfully at the highest level of Australian racing.
Since establishing his stable in the early 2000s, Pride has trained more than 1,000 winners and secured multiple Group One victories across Australia’s major racing carnivals. Elite performers, include Sacred Choice, Vision And Power, Eduardo, Private Eye and Terravista. In recent seasons, however, the emergence of Ceolwulf has elevated the stable to another level on the national stage.
Purchased for NZ$170,000 from New Zealand Bloodstock’s Ready to Run Sale, Ceolwulf has developed into one of Australia’s premier weight-for-age performers under Pride’s management. The gelding has now secured four Group One victories, including the Group One Epsom Handicap, King Charles III Stakes, and Champions Mile, while surpassing A$10 million in career prizemoney.
Ceolwulf’s rise has further reinforced Pride’s reputation for patient horse development and strategic race placement. Competing against many of Australia’s larger racing operations, Pride has consistently demonstrated the ability to identify and maximise talent within a medium-sized stable structure of only 60 horses.
Joe Pride represents a modern model of Australian thoroughbred training: analytical, performance driven, and internationally respected, with a proven ability to consistently produce elite-level racehorses on the country’s biggest racedays.
Written In Ink And Instinct: The Joe Pride Method
WATCH: Wolfden's Weekly Podcast Feb 2023 'The Punt' with trainer Joe Pride. Listen to one of Sydney's leading trainers.