Come Racing With Ciaron Maher!

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Apprentice to CS Hayes then a successful jumps jockey, including captaining the Australia team against Ireland in the International Jockey Challenge, Ciaron realised his size would deny his riding ambitions. Despite that, his love for racing and his natural interest and curiosity in training saw him commit to a career as a trainer at a young age. Knowing you learn best from the best, he spent time with Bart Cummings, Aiden O’Brien and Willie Mullins before starting in his own right,  with 6 boxes on his dad’s farm. He knows you never stop learning and continues to connect with the greats, only recently spending time with Wesley Ward (USA), Roger Charlton (UK) and Richard Hannon (UK), Andre Fabre (France) and Joseph O’Brien (IRE).  
 

Ciaron is now very happy to be based in what he describes as the best training facility he’s seen anywhere in the world at Ballarat, with operations also in Cranbourne and Sydney.

 

The Winners

 

Ciaron Maher has dominated stakes races in recent years, amassing a staggering 41 Group 1 wins in his training career. This incredible success has earned an enormous and still-rising prizemoney figure of $187,000,000+. Some of his notable wins (prizemoney $1M+ AUD) include:

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• Melbourne Cup $8m+ Gold Trip 2022

• The Everest $20m Bella Nipotina 2024

• Caulfield Cup $5m Jameka 2016

• Caulfield Cup $5m Duke De Sessa 2024

• Cox Plate $5m Sir Dragonet 2020

• Queen Elizabeth Stakes $5m Pride Of Jenni 2024

• Australian Derby $2m Explosive Jack 2021

• Australian Derby $2m Hitotsu 2022

• Victoria Derby $2m Hitotsu 2021

• Victoria Derby $2m Observer 2025

• Sydney Cup $2m Etah James 2020

• Sydney Cup $2m Explosive Jack 2023

• Australian Guineas $1m Hitotsu 2022

• Australian Guineas $1m Southport Tycoon 2024

• Australian Guineas $1m Observer 2026

• Doomben 10,000 $1.5m–$2m Bella Nipotina 2024

• Tattersall’s Tiara $1.5m Bella Nipotina 2024

• Thousand Guineas $1.5m Another Prophet 2024

• Northerly Stakes 1.5m Light Infantry Man 2025

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Facilities

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From their flagship stable in Ballarat, combined with their Cranbourne stable, beach facilities at Balnarring, dressage and pretraining operation at Pakenham and their Sydney stable, as well as the world class facility at BONG BONG, it is widely accepted that as a collective, Ciaron Maher Racing have some of the best racing facilities on offer in Australia and even the world.

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