Trainers

Mick Price

Since taking out his license in 1991, Mick Price has firmly established himself as one of the leading racehorse trainers in Victoria . The Price stable enjoyed an outstanding season in 2004/05, finishing second on the Melbourne Metropolitan Trainers Premiership with 40 city winners for the year. Some of the stakes performed horses to be trained by Mick include Rustic Dream, Slavonic, La Bella Dame, Vocabulary, Kempinsky, French Bid, Halibery, Intelligent Star, Mr Trickster, World Peace, Kylikwong, Tanith, Chattanooga, Amtrak, Red Dazzler etc. In 2003 Mick trained the trifecta in the Group 3 Blue Diamond Preview with Halibery, Gaelic Princess and Roedean filling all three places while World Peace took out the race for the stable in 2004. Mick kept his fantastic record with two-year-olds in tact by winning both the colts and fillies divisions of the Blue Diamond Prelude's in 2005 with Perfectly Ready and Doubting.

Mick has tasted success in the Futurity Stakes-G1, Railway Stakes-G1, Norman Carlyon Stakes-G2, Angus Armanasco Stakes-G2, AAMI Vase-G2, Swettenham Stud Stakes-G2, Bill Stutt Stakes-G2, Moonee Valley Cup-G2, and been placed in the Caulfield Guineas-G1, Toorak Handicap-G1, 1000 Guineas-G1, Victoria Derby-G1, VRC Oaks-G1, Blue Diamond Stakes-G1, Manikato Stakes-G1 and C. F. Orr Stakes-G1

Facilities

Mick has 56 boxes located at Caulfield racecourse in Melbourne with a variety of stables and yards that can cater for any individual horse's needs.

Caulfield has five different surfaces for horses to work on including turf, synthetic and sand tracks, a safe swimming pool and two tracks for trot and canter work.

We have a modern 8 horse truck, access to a therapeutic water treadmill and less injuries due to good, safe facilities.

We have a comprehensive network of pre-trainers available, utilising the state of the art facilities at Macedon Lodge, Vinery Stud in Euroa and Springstream Lodge in Rye .

As well as the stable environment, horses can be freshened throughout their preparations by spending time at Mick's farm in Lysterfield, just east of Melbourne .