DAVID PAYNE............S.A.'s LOSS...OZ GAIN

One of S.Africa's very best...............and a Durban boy.

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A GENTLEMAN is defined as being:

* A well-mannered and considerate man with high standards of proper behavior.

* A man regarded as having qualities of refinement, associated with a good family

* A man who is cultured and courteous


DAVID PAYNE is a
True Gentleman, Outstanding Trainer &
Proven Trainer of 2yo’s

Trainer of 103 Group 1 WINNERS, David Payne moved to Australia from his native South Africa in 2002, without any horses, wanting to make a new start.



David's running total of Sydney Metropolitan WINNERS for the 2013/14 racing season 18 and is currently in 8th position on the Trainers Premiership.

Previous 4 Seasons in Sydney
2012/13 Sydney Trainers Premiership - 15th - 17 WINS
2011/12 Sydney Trainers Premiership - 9th - 23 WINS
2010/11 Sydney Trainers Premiership - 6th - 34 WINS
2009/10 Sydney Trainers Premiership - 5th - 41 WINS


David Payne is the trainer of High Quality 2yo CRITERION – Sebring’s Best Son to Date.

Criterion
Winner of 3 Races including 2 WINS in Stakes Company and twice Placed at Group 1 Level.

Since commencing training in Sydney, David has become one of the most respected trainers in the tough Sydney market and permanently holds a position in the top metropolitan trainers.

David has spent the last 40 plus years surrounded by horses as either a jockey or a trainer.

David was a jockey for 7 years in his native South Africa before WEIGHT got the better of him and he took to training horses in the season 1970 / 71.

He met with early success with his first ever runner, Early Bid, saluting the judge in first position, hence the name of his stables on the Summerveld Course, ‘Early Bid Lodge.’

In a short space of time, David was to become rather fond of a horse that he considered was the best that he has ever trained. In Full Flight took all before him in having 19 starts between 2 and 4 years of age for 16 wins. Of those 16 wins, an incredible 6 were group 1’s, 3 were Group 2’s, 1 was in a Group 3 and a further WIN was in a Listed event.

In his 30 plus years as a trainer in South Africa, David’s record was unparalleled. He was the leading trainer of the Natal district an amazing 23 times.

David has now won 103 Group 1’s both here and in South Africa.

The next time you are at a trivia night, answer David Payne to the following question.

Which former South African trainer has won every Group 1 race that South Africa has to offer? Amazing but true.

David is also the only person to ride and train A WINNER of South Africa's prestigious Group 1 Durban July Hcp.


When David first arrived in Australia in 2002, he applied for boxes at Royal Randwick. The chief executive of the AJC at the time, Tony King, rang some connections in South Africa and with their recommendation; he had the next available boxes. David is now well established as a leading Sydney trainer. In this time he has won over 430 races and is just shy of $23 million in prizemoney earnings since 2002. He has twice tasted Group 1 success in Australia with both UNEARTHLY 2003 Flight Stakes and MASTER OF DESIGN WINNING the 2012 TJ Smith stakes.

The 25 boxes that he was initially granted were filled with quality horses such as:



* Unearthly – WINNER Gr 1 Flight Stakes and Group 2 Chelmsford Stakes (first up over 1600m)
* Master of DESIGN– WINNER of the Gr 1 TJ Smith Stakes and Gr 2 Sebring Stakes. Also, placed in the Gr 1 Rubert Clark Stakes.
* Centennial Park – Winner Gr 2 Expressway Stakes, Gr 3 AAMI Stakes, LR Darby Munro Stakes.
* Masquerader – Winner Gr 2 Todman Slipper Trial.
* Florentia– Won Gr 3 Gold Coast Guineas and placed another 3 times at Stakes level.
* Hurried Choice – Winner Group 2 Challenge Stakes and placed in Gr 2 and listed events.
* Gallant Tess – Winner Gr 2 Breeders Classic, Listed Fernhill Hcp. Placed in the Gr 1 Champagne Stakes, Group 2 Furious Stakes and Gr 2 Tea Rose Stakes.
* Flying Pegasus – Winner Gr 2 Royal Sovereign Stakes and Gr 3 Kindergarten Stakes. Placed Gr 1 Randwick Guineas, Gr 2 Todman Stakes and Gr 3 Hobartville Stakes.
* Nevis – Winner Gr 2 Chelmsford Stakes and Listed Toy Show Quality. Placed Gr 1 Rosehill Guineas and 4th in the Gr 1 George Main Stakes
* Rock Me Baby – Winner Gr 2 Light Fingers Stakes.
* Stripper – Winner of the 1st 2yo race after EI and winner of the Gr 3 Sweet Embrace Stakes and placed in the listed Widden Stakes Defiant Dame – Winner LR Gimcrack Stakes.
* Dream Machine – Winner Gr 3 Frank Packer Plate.
* Uber – Winner Gr 3 Black Opal, Listed Lightning Stakes, Listed Razor Sharp Quality
* WINNING Glory – Winner Gr 3 Newcastle Cup.
* Honorius– Winner of the Gr 3 Craven Plate and twice placed at Group 1 level.
* Lilliburlero – Winner Gr 3 Triscay Stakes.



David now sees his future at the Rosehill race track where he has 50 boxes and Dynamic Syndications are delighted to be able to support him.

His contribution to South African racing was immeasurable and he is building an imposing record here in Australia from a limited amount of boxes.


David Payne has trained for Dynamic Syndications several quality horses including WELL HANDLED, DREAM CHOICE, ATREYU, SECRET DELIGHT, etc.

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David Payne...In Full Flight....

Durban was certainly the poorer for his departure.

He used to clean up in Cape Town when he raided down here during the season. Those were the days when Durban trainers RULED. Laird, Brown, Payne etc.

On one occasion I remember he brought with him a previously little known young jockey.....one Glenn Hatt.

David Payne has had many top top horses in his yard and just to try and recall a few from memory.

IN FULL FLIGHT - DURBAN JULY AMONGST MANY OTHER FEATURES
SPANISH POOL - WON SUN INT. NOW SUMMER CUP AND OTHER FEATURES.
IMPERIOUS SUE - WON J& B MET
FEARLESS STREAKER - WON J& B MET AND STABLEMATE RAN 2ND
SEALEGS - 2ND IN J & B MET
MILLEVEROF - WON DURBAN GOLD CUP
PRINCE FLORIMUND - WON SA 2000
TON UP - WON S.A.GUINEAS
ST.JOHN'S WOOD - WON CAPE GUINEAS
PETRAVA - TOP FILLY WON MANY FEATURES
HOEBERG- TOP FILLY WON MANY FEATURES
JALLAD
ICONA
GREAT SUN
LITTLE MO

And the list goes on.......................!

Mick Goss

Summerhill CEOAs the 1970s moved into the 80s, the bloodstock world became much more than an elegant diversion. It became an international business with a currency of its own. Nothing would be the same again. For that reason, I have favoured the anecdotal over the statistical, on the grounds that stories tell us about character, while statistics can lead to drowsiness. Racing might not always be character-building, but it sure as hell produces plenty of characters.

And here we’ve touched on a part of its greatness, the reason the turf inspires such a depth of stories dating back centuries. Ultimately, racing revolves around two eminently fallible creatures: man with all our vanity, our commonplace avarice and occasional nobility, and an animal of exquisite beauty, though born with a congenital tendency to self-destruct. Racing is good sport, great sport when it’s a contest of champions. It’s not always good business. When it comes to character, it can be up there with war and poverty; and besides its horses, its characters are irresistible.

I was lucky in my student days to know Paulie de Wet. If you were looking for the definition of the master horseman, look no further. Race days honed his competitive juices, they brought out his sartorial graces, and the old “clothes horse” spoke of the thoroughbreds he so clearly adored with an appealing mix of sentiment and intuition. In his later years, his hearing was not what it used to be. But far from being impeded by his partial deafness, he made a virtue of selective hearing, particularly in his entreaties with the fairer ones.

David Payne was my first trainer. I met him too, as a Stellenbosch student on the day his mighty In Full Flight dead-heated with the Hartford colour-bearer, Sentinel, for the Cape Of Good Hope Guineas. As the horses jogged back to scale, the crowd pressed in upon the paddock fence. Sentinel’s trainer Jo Joseph, was a study of septuagenarian bewilderment; Payne by contrast, was the embodiment of the twenty-something-year-old at the threshold of big things. A matronly figure blocking the gate to the winner’s box trilled in that inimitable “Millerton” accent, “If I ever own a horse, that boy’s going to train it.” You wonder what he ever did to deserve that.

We are here today because of a tiny filly called Pagoda. She was the first horse we bought at a sale, and David Payne was handed the reins. She won seven races, a Group One racehorse, and in the words of her trainer, she could “catch swallows”. Or should I say pigeons. Outside of horses, Payne’s great love growing up, was racing pigeons. To little avail, he kept telling me our diminutive conveyance was quick enough to catch his feathered friends. David Payne is a genius. There are few of them in the world, and even fewer who can tell you what makes them one. The day a genius attempts an explanation, he’s probably not one. They live in a world of gifts and intuition, and in the matter of horses, they plum the rich veins of mystery that pervade our sport, without knowing how or why.

In a game where the principals all compete in the same profession, and where success and failure are logged in the newspapers every day, swirling envies inevitably abound. While I was a “Payne” boy, the one man who always shared his insights generously, was Syd Laird. The winner of more Durban Julys than any other man, Syd was bigger than life and an inveterate punter. Life for him, particularly in his early years, was a rollercoaster, gyrating between rippling prosperity and dire poverty; he just couldn’t resist a punt on his own horses. “You can’t let them run naked” was the Laird creed.

It is said that later in life, a heart seizure dropped him at the work track. His colleagues were in panic. The doctor was asked what his chances were: “One in ten, I reckon”. Thought to be unconscious, Syd opened his eyes and took 100 to 10. If he’d died in that moment, it would’ve been akin to absolution. He was a generous benefactor of charitable causes, and though a Catholic himself, subscribed as well to Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist building funds. Clearly this was one bet he wasn’t leaving to chance.

A crook. No loss and let Aus have him. Can you imagine having an owner in your hard with 25 plus horses and knowing he punts. So you do a deal with his bookmaker to tip the bookmaker off what the owner is going to back. So the bookmaker goes in and shortens the horse and then the trainer tells him to have a bet.

Double Reef. First time out. Clairwood mile. No alumites. Horse is 5/1. Bookmaker gets the call. Trainer gets his kickback. Owner gets told to have a go at 16/10.

David Payne won the Cape Guineas with LITTLE BALLERINA and then added to his tally with a win in the Queen's Plate with the NZ bred TAKE A WALK.

As Garrick pointed out David Payne was a very successful raider when taking his string down to the Cape.

Unsurprisingly though his successes were largely due to the influential owners that had their horses in his yard amongst them many from the Jewish community, the likes of Graham Beck, Laurie Jaffee, Martin Sternberg, Morris Schaffer , Cecil Treger and Len Salzman to name a few.

But in my books i have him as a runner so whatever he has accomplished its only good for him

Harris wrote: A crook. No loss and let Aus have him. Can you imagine having an owner in your hard with 25 plus horses and knowing he punts. So you do a deal with his bookmaker to tip the bookmaker off what the owner is going to back. So the bookmaker goes in and shortens the horse and then the trainer tells him to have a bet.

Double Reef. First time out. Clairwood mile. No alumites. Horse is 5/1. Bookmaker gets the call. Trainer gets his kickback. Owner gets told to have a go at 16/10.

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Just read this after my post and i cannot agree more

my impression about him is the same as Harris

cowards

DAVID GIVES THE CAPE MUCH PAIN ...............

The 1988/89 Cape Summer season had the locals scrambling for cover as the visitors from KZN raided and looted the spoils and prompted Cape racing writer Recondite to comment......

"SUCCESS OF THE VISITORS "

One heartening aspect of the season, if one takes the broader view, was the success of the visitors, for this will bring them back next Summer and again give a much needed boost to local racing after the long Winter months.

The visitors certainly made Cape racing pay for their appearance and statistics bear this out.

Between 10 Dec & 4 Mar, the span of the Cape season, 26 race meetings were held.
The 221 races at these meetings carried total stakes of just over R 4,OOO,OOO--- and the visitors, sending out a mere 164 runners, scooped 25 % of this.

Far and away, the most successful visiting trainer was David Payne. His horses raced 58 times for 15 wins and 26 places for earnings of over R 69O,OOO--, the most spectacular season he has ever had at the Cape. The wins included the Cape Met and the Cape Guineas.

Fearless Streaker won the J & B Met and ST John's Wood the Richielue Guineas.