Team Hawkes

Yes, John Hawkes is a hall of famer.
Yes, John, Michael & Wayne Hawkes’ together have trained
over 100 group ones.
Yes, Hawkes’ trained horses are completely overrepresented in the best pages of the stud book and Hawkes’ trained stallions fill sale catalogues year after year at the major sales in Australia.

But. . .

It’s the little things,
It’s the 1% percenters,
It’s patience, it’s the horse telling them it’s ready not the other way
round,
It is the cleanest boxes and the best available feed,
It’s the relationships with the studs, the farms, the spellers and the saleyards,
With the drivers and with the horsepeople,
It’s going to the stables in the afternoons not just for trackwork,
It’s teaching staff, strappers, jockeys and track riders to be observant, to be watchful and to care.

It’s about the horse.

Pedigree is everything in horse racing.