Mark is Number 1

From everyone at Te Akau - our owners and friends, our team, our families and our supporters -

Mark Walker on your very first Singapore Trainers' Premiership title with 86 wins - you said that was your aim in your first five years in Singapore - and you have done it!  All credit too to your fantastic supporters, Julia and your children Zavier and Alexis and also Gus and Karen Clutterbuck and your whole team.

This title is added to your five New Zealand Trainers' Premiership titles and as The Informant posed -

"has there ever been a Kiwi trainer who has won Trainers' Premierships in two countries?"  if so, no-one can currently name him!

Mark is one of the industry's most talented and hardest working - this is an honour he truly does deserve - Te Akau's first international Premiership!

Travel safely back to New Zealand tomorrow!

Well done too to our Te Akau Singapore apprentice Shafiq Rusof who has claimed his second Singapore Apprentice Riders' Premiership with 54 winners for the season - that's a margin of 22 wins over Harry Kasim.  He also rode 50 runners up, 63 third and 49 fourth placegetters!  Well done Suppy!