Williams - The Liam Howley Era

It’s been nearly 3 months since the stable had a runner.

Finally they’ve nominated a horse - Exemplar in the 1720m open Hcp at Fkemington in Saturday.

Complain about hard tracks, don't run during winter 

His established stocks are looking a bit thin after the retirements of Rekinfling, Almandin & The Taj Mahal.

Homesman & J.Vermeer should still be contenders this season, and hopefully he gives Orderofthegarter & Venice Beach proper campaigns. Not sure about Yucatan.

There are a few interesting in the team that haven’t raced here yet, including Nelson, Kenya & Douglas MacArthur. Nelson ran 8th in the Arc, beaten only 4.5 Lens behind Enable!!

But who knows if we’ll even see any of these horses even make it to the track on race day!

Couple of interesting runners today

U S Army Ranger, King of Leogrance and Douglas MacArthur all go around in Race 3 at Caulfield over 1600m

Raced twice in 2 years, probably forgot what he's doing

Douglas MacArthur went huge.

Douglas MacArthur has been injured at Mornington apparently

Wouldn't touch their horses with a barge pole, I'll give Exemplar a tick though.

Hope he pulls through

A very lean Spring for Lloyd in 2019, with Homesman in the Feehan Stks beng his only winner.   He doesn’t even have a runner in the Zipping Classic, which is rare.   

Makes me wonder whether the Liam Howley era will continue much longer? Or will he join the ranks of ex-Lloyd private trainers like Brad Mazarto & Myles Plumb?

As the good book states, you shall reap what you sow.

If you just want success in one horse race every year then you will be disappointed more often than not.

Here is a guy who has the horses who are bred to dominate the Tancred, Sydney Cup, Auckland Cup and Caulfield Cup, but he only cares about one race.

There are at least four group 1 wins for him every year if he wanted.

But as is stated care factor is about zero or less.

Fawkner (a 6th and a 10th) and Almandin when he won are the only local trained top 10 place getters since Green Moon won and Mourayan ran 7th in 2012, interesting stats. In that time he has won a few other races such as the Metropolitan Hcp, Sydney Cup and the Tancred along with the Zipping Classic, interesting info.

what has happened to 5hem all. They seem to break down a lot or is that just as assumption 

Afros wrote: Fawkner (a 6th and a 10th) and Almandin when he won are the only local trained top 10 place getters since Green Moon won and Mourayan ran 7th in 2012, interesting stats. In that time he has won a few other races such as the Metropolitan Hcp, Sydney Cup and the Tancred along with the Zipping Classic, interesting info.

Spot on with this info. It shows Lloyd can win other races apart from the Melbourne Cup. But he is obssessed with one race

Lloyd does have an ex runner in the Zipping classic in Midterm who is not without a chance