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TEAM Hawkes makes a habit of coming first – both on and off the racetrack.
Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes were the first three-person training partnership in Australian racing. They were the first training partnership to saddle up a runner in Sydney racing, winning with their first ever runner – Real Saga in the 2008 Listed Breeders Plate. They also prepared the first Group One winner by a training partnership in Sydney racing when Fiumicino won the 2009 The BMW on Golden Slipper Day at Rosehill Gardens.
After almost a decade in operation, the Team Hawkes stable has enjoyed unbridled success, producing more than 700 winners, 15 at Group One level, a total of 95 stakes wins and stable earnings exceeding $50 million.
The stable has had production line of outstanding gallopers since 2008 including the exciting All Too Hard. All Too Hard won seven of his 12 starts, earning over $2.2 million in stakes. He was a four-time Group 1 winner of the 2012 Caulfield Guineas, then in 2013 the CF Orr Stakes, Futurity Stakes, All Aged Stakes, while he also ran a very good second in the 2012 Cox Plate.
The likes of top colts Divine Prophet, Star Turn and Swear were retired at the end of their three-year-olds seasons in 2016-17, having achieved enough on the racetrack to convince the breeding industry of their credentials as sires.
Team Hawkes has also celebrated big-race wins with brilliant filly Mossfun (2014 Golden Slipper), Estijaab (2018 Golden Slipper), Divine Prophet (2016 Caulfield Guineas), Niwot (2012 Sydney Cup), Inference (2017 Royal Randwick Guineas) and from top class gallopers like Love Conquers All, Messene, Leebaz and Maluckyday.
These stable triumphs are a continuation of Hall Of Famer John Hawkes’s phenomenal training career. He is regarded as one of Australia's all-time great trainers with a career total of 110 Group One winners so far to be fifth on the all-time trainers' list of major race winners. However, Hawkes admits he regrets his sons did not get officially acknowledged for their contributions to many of his successes until the training partnership was established. And the system works very, well. With Michael in charge of the main stable base at Rosehill Gardens and Wayne holding the reins at the team's Flemington stable base, John splits his time between the two states as the winners keep flowing from Team Hawkes.