Ridge Wilson - Breaking, Training & Racing

15/12/2024

15/12/2024

On Saturday, Jo Methven, Brodie Fenton, and Ridge Wilson dominated Moree Race Club’s annual Christmas meeting, winning half the program on a successful day for Inverell-based trainers. For Methven, it was her first winner in a decade after recently rejoining the training ranks. Methven’s last wi

10/12/2024

STILL LOOKING!! START ASAP!!
Due to the increasing number of horses in the barn, we're excited to announce an available position from 5:30am to roughly 9:00am, six days a week, with additional optional hours during rainy days!

Please note that this role is not suitable for school-age children as it is labor-intensive and HARD WORK. Keep this in mind when applying.

Thanks, Sarra!

💥NEW POSITION AVAILABLE💥

👀Looking for yet another casual stablehand to join a growing team!

We are looking for someone who is hardworking, trustworthy and most importantly, reliable.
We are needing someone who isn’t afraid to get there before the sun in the morning and sometimes come back in the afternoon to do it all again.
You do need to be willing to work with and confident around horses.

Please note you will need to be willing to obtain a stablehand license and are required to complete a horse safe course, have a reasonable police check and complete required documents according.

Duties include but not limited to:
🏇Cleaning multiple stables & day yards
🐎Keeping the barn in a reasonable state
🏇Cleaning out & re-filling waters
🐎Making up feeds
& more, although there is opportunity for more work with the horses for the right person.

This position is physically demanding as you are lifting & carrying heavy items as well as mucking out and turning over multiple stables.

💥This position isn’t going to suit students or 9 to 5 people due to the hours we are needing.

Please message me with any questions and if you’re interested in applying.

10/12/2024

27/11/2024

"The Big Smoke" is a term many country trainers use to describe the big, thrilling, and highly professional race meets in the cities. Today, Ridge had his very first runner in the Big Smoke, and Sweet Mercy was cheered on by many through their TVs, including her trainer, Ridge, who couldn't make it up!

Sweet Mercy has been in the care of the Wilson Team on the Gold Coast since the meeting was postponed for a few days, and we weren't able to stay. Despite an unlucky draw with the gate, Sweetie and her jockey, Boris Thornton, had an outstanding run, finishing a very close third at Doomben by 0.01 of a length!

We would like to extend our thanks to the team at home, the team at Wilson's Racing, and her owners for giving us the opportunity to train her!

🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵🤍🩵

19/11/2024

04/11/2024

Happy 24th birthday to our favourite trainer!
We all appreciate your hard work and dedication to the team!
We hope you had a great day even if it was spent doing the horses and carting hay!
Love from all the horses and staff! 🥳💙

01/11/2024

Moree today brought some tough competition, but our boys Banner Lad, Lesgo Don, and Waydie still made the trip worthwhile!

❤️Banner Lad unfortunately had all opportunities to show us his true potential, but didn’t kick through his gears. We appreciate Wendy Peel for riding him and giving him the opportunity.

💙Waydie faced a challenging race but gave it his all, finishing mid-field with Leeshelle Small giving him an economical chance!

💚Lesgo Don had quite the hype leading up to his run, and he delivered! Ella Drew came all the way to Moree for one ride, and she and Donny crossed the line in front!

A huge thank you to everyone for their support and encouragement, and special thanks to the owners of all three horses for being there!

31/10/2024

🧙‍♀️Sarra wasn’t the only witch in the stables today!👻

14/10/2024

💛🖤Meddlesome has finally claimed her maiden victory after four starts and four thirds! She got to the lead this morning at Tamworth and there she stayed the whole way and took out the Oatley Wines Maiden Plate by 2.4 lengths, thanks to Cristian Reith’s fantastic ride.
Now she’s relaxing in the paddock, enjoying a well-earned break.

13/10/2024

Yesterday, we ventured to Warwick where Gerety delivered a commendable performance, securing second place in the 800 metre Gross Wholesale Meats Class 3 Plate with Les Tilley aboard. She will now enjoy a well-deserved break.
Hiraishin faced a tough race in the Warwick Newmarket Benchmark 70 Handicap but gave it his all. We are grateful to Jade Metcalfe for her dedication in ensuring he crossed the finish line safely.

07/10/2024

I am away and forgot to post abouth the last start runners at the Bundarra meeting which were held at Armidale on Saturday.

💙Waydie the first runner of the day came home with the win of the Bundarra General Store Class 1 Handicap! Leeshelle Small riding him a treat and getting her third winner for the day! 👏

Libby and Banner Lad started in the Gold Maiden.
💛Libby improved greatly achieving third place with Claire Ramsbotham teaching her the ropes!
❤️Banner Lad also getting the hang of racing and had a good run with Peter Graham educating him along the way!

💚Lesgo Don had Billy Cray aboard and achieved a fourth for our last race runner of the day.

🩷Joey the barns favourite c**t has his race name and made it to the trails! Exoflow went around with Wendy Peel being very well behaved especially since this was all new! Joey passed his trial and with have a couple more to further his racing education.

As per usual thank you to everyone who helped out at the races, including all the jockeys, those who helped with transportation and the others that stuck around in Inverell to feed up there!