“In the harness racing industry we tend to
be much more hands-on than the thoroughbred industry,”
continued Kim. “Most stables could not afford
to pay for extras such as more staff so we would
just keep working and doing the job ourselves”
Kim’s stellar Harness Racing career resulted
in many success stories. In fact, she was NSW’s
number one female driver in the early 80s and represented
the State in the Annual Australian Drivers competition.
Kim drove more than 100 winners including winning
doubles and trebles at Harold Park, Harness Racing
headquarters in Sydney.
Most Harness Racing fans will say that Kim cut short
a promising driving career when she decided to venture
into the thoroughbred industry.
“I was not happy with the low prizemoney levels
in harness racing and I was struggling to get ahead
financially even though I was driving plenty of
winners,” said Kim. “I liked the excitement
of the gallops and of course the higher money on
offer was enticing enough for me to change codes.”
For the first couple of years Kim enjoyed a dual
licence training both pacers and gallopers but eventually
she gave the standardbreds away to concentrate on
the thoroughbreds.
Kim’s first major thoroughbred success was
with Never True who took out the South Grafton Cup
in 1991.
Many winners have rolled on since then including a Doomben Classic with Enforced, Grafton Cup with the injury plagued Catapult and Mahtoum taking out the Sydney Cup - recent winners are upcoming stars Delago Star and Harrykay.
Today, Kim has firmly established herself as a horse trainer of the modern era.
Kims success and commitment to growing has allowed her to recently make the move to Wyong on the central coast. Here we have a brand new stabling complex which is located oncourse. Kim has 24 horses in work at any one time, with a state of the art, fully covered walking machine to ensure horses receive constant daily exercise even in wet weather. We have very good training facilities here at Wyong, including the best sand track in the state, and the Viscoride track is very good all weather track for all types of work. I am only ten minutes from spelling and agisitment farms for my horses and beachwork is only a short float trip away.
"Basically I live, work and breathe my horses" says Kim.
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