Trainer Archie Alexander has received special recognition from Ballarat Turf Club for his achievements of last season.
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The BTC presented him with the Ken Williams Award for outstanding achievement in racing at its annual awards night on Saturday.
This comes after him taking out Racing Victoria’s rising star award earlier this month.
Alexander has 34 winners, including eight on Victorian metropolitan tracks, at a strike rate of 15
Other BTC awards:
- Outstanding contribution to racing” Paddy Payne Snr
- Outstanding Achievement by a Ballarat-trained racehorse: Broadway and First (5 wins)
- Leading strike rate by Ballarat trainer: Andrew Payne (13 wins at 15 per cent)
- Leading trainer (national): Darren Weir
- Leading trainer at Ballarat meetings: Darren Weir
- Leading jockey at Ballarat meetings: Dean Yendall
- Leading horse at Ballarat meetings: Elite Tiger
MEANWHILE, former Japanese galloper Brave Smash kept the door open for a slot in The Everest in Sydney with a fighting win at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
The Darren Weir-trained Brave Smash is one of five horses short-listed to take the ATC's slot in the $10 million race at Randwick on October 14.
Weir said he would have liked to see Brave Smash win easier than he did.
"I would have liked to have seen him run through the line and run away from them a bit better but he won and you can't do much more than that," Weir said.
"There's still a fair bit of improvement to come and we might have to up the ante a bit now as we go on to bigger and better things.
"He's only had one gallop since he ran the other day."
