On August 1 2005, Craig Martin commenced his 3rd season of training thoroughbred racehorses with a stable of 28 horses on Tamworth racecourse. Craig has racing and horsemanship in his blood, raised in Walcha both his uncle and father were trainers. Prior to taking out his trainer licence, Craig worked for 8 years as foreman for his younger brother Tim who now trains at Rosehill. During this time Craig has studied and qualified as an Equine dental Technican.

Statistics/Premiership Table/Country Trainer Award.

In his 1 st season Craig won both the Hunter and North West Trainer premiership and NSW Country premiership. As a result he was later awarded the Racing NSW Award for Excellence – Country Trainer Award. During this time he trained the winner of Tamworth Jockey Club Gainsborough Stakes Race being the 1 st local trainer to achieve this result. Numerous winners in Brisbane and Grafton proved to be a very successful season.

In his 2 nd season Craig finished 3 rd in the Hunter & North West premiership having 178 starters, 38 – 1 st , and 65 placings thats a strike rate for 1 st place of 4.68. Training Saranac to win the South Grafton Cup was a memorable moment. He prides himself on the presentation and fitness of his horses and having a professionally run stable.

His Aim Racing is Craig's passion and his aim is to give the horses the greatest of patience, care and attention whilst at the stable. At the end of the day winners are both a reward and an incentive for hardwork.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stabling & pretraining facility

Set on 58 acres in Moore Creek which is 10 minutes from the Racetrack. Property includes machinery shed with tack room, stables, 32m x 40m area with sand floor, round yard, The place has good water and a nice hill to work horses up, by June 2007 the plan for completion of 14 stables, yards and a training track will have been effected. The stables at the Racetrack will be downsized from 30 to 17, to ensure we always have a presence oncourse. The set up is envisage to provide pretraining, breaking in and small “freshen up” paddocks for horses that have raced , which will work in the oncourse facilities.