MURRAY BAKER

  • New Zealand

Trainer: MURRAY BAKER & ANDREW FORSMAN after Bonneval winning the Underwood Stakes

Murray Baker has been one of New Zealand's leading trainers for many years. In that time he has won well over 150 stakes races.

Murray began training in the mid 1980's in Woodville, New Zealand. He was quick to produce a good horse with Wellington Derby and New Zealand St Leger winner Sir Vigilant. 

In 2000 Murray decided to relocate to Cambridge and once again was quick to produce big results with Prized Gem winning the Brisbane Cup and Kelt Capital Stakes in 2002. She would end up producing Nom Du Jeu who would win an Australian Derby for Baker (in partnership with his son Bjorn) and he has won that very race four times.

He is one of the few New Zealand trainers to not only train a Group 1 winner in New Zealand, but also four states of Australia (VIC, NSW, SA and QLD).

They also had Lion Tamer win the Victoria Derby for the stable in 2010 and Murray became one of the few trainers to train the winner of both the AJC and VRC Derby.
 
In recent years, with Bjorn Baker branching out by himself, Murray joined forces with Andrew Forsman, him having worked with the stable for a long time as foreman.

The pair has had good success since that time saddling up multiple Group 1 winners including Bonneval and Jon Snow.

Best Horse :
NOM DU JEU  (Timeform Rating 122)
MONTJEU (IRE)  PRIZED GEM (NZ)  [By PRIZED (USA)]
First Group Win (G1):
SIR VIGILANT  (09 Mar 1985)
SIR TRISTRAM (IRE)  VIGNETTE (NZ) 

MURRAY BAKER's Career

Latest Runners

FP Date Course Runner Div Type Distance PM AUD $ Jockey Time
3 of 8 28 Feb 2009 RHIL FULLY FLEDGED $4.3 3 QLTY 1100m $100,750 COREY BROWN 1:03.49
8 of 22 04 Nov 2008 FLEM NOM DU JEU $7.5 3U OPEN G1 3200m $5,650,000 J LLOYD 3:20.40
2 of 17 18 Oct 2008 CAUL NOM DU JEU $31 3U OPEN G1 2400m $2,555,000 J LLOYD 2:27.45
1 of 13 30 Jul 2008 TEAW CARIB $1/1 RST70 2000m $5,300 MICHAEL COLEMAN 2:20.00
5 of 13 30 Jul 2008 TEAW KILLA LOOX $3/3 RST70 2000m $5,300 JASON JAGO 2:20.00
1 of 7 30 Jul 2008 TEAW MR TIPSY $3/4 3U MDN 1580m $4,000 JONATHAN RIDDELL 1:48.60
3 of 14 26 Jul 2008 TE R WHO'S ASKING $12.9 RST80 1400m $22,000 LEITH INNES 1:29.97
10 of 16 26 Jul 2008 TE R MATERIAL GIRL $7.6 RST90 1600m $26,490 MICHAEL COLEMAN 1:44.59
6 of 10 25 Jul 2008 TAUR MOUNTAIN ROAD $0.8 RST80 2170m $6,060 MICHAEL COLEMAN 2:18.47
3 of 12 25 Jul 2008 TAUR KILLA LOOX $6.1 RST70 2170m $5,680 PAUL BOYLAN 2:22.21
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Jockey Statistics

Last 100 Rides
Career
Jockey Name Wins Win (%) Places Place (%) Runners PM AUD $ G1(w) G2(w) G3(w) LR(w) ROI
MICHAEL COLEMAN 7 41.2% 3 58.8% 17 $52,587 0 0 0 0 $2.15
HAYDEN TINSLEY 1 16.7% 2 50.0% 6 $11,429 0 0 0 0 $0.62
TROY HARRIS 1 20.0% 1 40.0% 5 $4,447 0 0 0 0 $3.12
J LLOYD 1 25.0% 2 75.0% 4 $1,665,000 1 0 0 0 $6.50
JONATHAN RIDDELL 1 25.0% 1 50.0% 4 $4,486 0 0 0 0 $0.44
JAMES MCDONALD 0 0.0% 2 11.1% 18 $4,882 0 0 0 0 -
JASON JAGO 0 0.0% 4 36.4% 11 $8,840 0 0 0 0 -
NOEL HARRIS 0 0.0% 4 36.4% 11 $8,856 0 0 0 0 -
GRANT COOKSLEY 0 0.0% 1 16.7% 6 $2,271 0 0 0 0 -
LEITH INNES 0 0.0% 3 75.0% 4 $7,040 0 0 0 0 -
DAVID WALSH 0 0.0% 0 0.0% 3 $303 0 0 0 0 -
MARK SWEENEY 0 0.0% 1 33.3% 3 $2,309 0 0 0 0 -
PAUL BOYLAN 0 0.0% 1 50.0% 2 $568 0 0 0 0 -
DAMIEN OLIVER 0 0.0% 1 50.0% 2 $55,000 0 0 0 0 -
COREY BROWN 0 0.0% 1 100.0% 1 $9,000 0 0 0 0 -
Jockey Name Wins Win (%) Places Place (%) Runners PM AUD $ G1(w) G2(w) G3(w) LR(w) ROI
NOEL HARRIS 66 19.8% 79 43.5% 333 $1,222,273 2 4 2 4 $0.54
DAVID WALSH 40 16.0% 60 40.0% 250 $507,326 0 2 2 1 $0.43
LISA CROPP 29 16.1% 32 33.9% 180 $229,233 0 0 0 0 $0.32
GRANT COOKSLEY 20 14.6% 32 38.0% 137 $1,652,750 3 1 2 0 $0.52
LEITH INNES 20 18.2% 29 44.5% 110 $455,160 2 1 0 0 $0.46
MICHAEL WALKER 17 12.5% 35 38.2% 136 $126,280 0 0 0 0 $0.40
ANDREW CALDER 16 11.2% 31 32.9% 143 $239,857 0 1 1 0 $0.23
LARRY CASSIDY 13 27.1% 13 54.2% 48 $402,040 2 0 1 2 $0.54
HAYDEN TINSLEY 10 14.9% 17 40.3% 67 $64,617 0 0 0 0 $0.37
JIM COLLETT 10 20.4% 11 42.9% 49 $121,086 0 0 1 1 $0.39
OPIE BOSSON 9 12.7% 21 42.3% 71 $68,953 0 0 0 0 $0.26
MICHAEL COLEMAN 9 17.0% 12 39.6% 53 $101,543 0 1 0 0 $0.76
G DAVISON 8 29.6% 9 63.0% 27 $97,075 0 0 0 1 $0.63
J G MC GIFFORD 8 34.8% 8 69.6% 23 $34,620 0 0 0 0 $0.70
MARK DU PLESSIS 7 16.7% 6 31.0% 42 $57,396 0 0 0 0 $0.68

Seasons Summary Statistics

Season Wins Win (%) Places Place (%) Runners PM AUD $ G1(w) G2(w) G3(w) LR(w) ROI
2008/09 0 0.0% 2 66.7% 3 $499,000 0 0 0 0 -
2007/08 42 12.7% 80 37.0% 330 $1,860,336 2 1 1 1 $0.82
2006/07 47 15.1% 72 38.3% 311 $508,481 0 0 0 0 $0.43
2005/06 39 15.1% 50 34.5% 258 $425,998 0 1 2 1 $0.30
2004/05 50 15.8% 63 35.8% 316 $768,028 1 4 0 0 $0.32
2003/04 31 11.7% 65 36.4% 264 $407,467 1 0 1 0 $0.38
2002/03 19 9.2% 45 31.1% 206 $477,267 1 0 0 0 $0.19
2001/02 27 14.1% 59 44.8% 192 $931,837 2 1 2 1 $0.34
2000/01 12 9.5% 31 34.1% 126 $108,350 0 0 1 0 $0.19
1999/00 22 10.9% 39 30.2% 202 $205,410 0 0 0 1 $0.22
Overall 422 14.1% 681 22.8% 2986 $9,998,332 15 13 13 12 $0.40