MTR celebrates best year ever
What a season for Michael Travers Racing!
Not only have Michael and the team started the second-most runners (169) in the country NSW, in 2025/26, winning 20 races, and earning connections in the sixth-most country-trained prizemoney ($499,805.00), MTR landed an incredible 37 winners in 2025.
Stable stalwart Mathrin won the 2025 Cowra Cup (Mathew Cahill), Corowa Cup (Amy O’Driscoll) and Canberra’s Sky Caller’s Cup (Jessica Brookes).
Dynamic One (Brittany Button) triumphed in Gundagai’s Hair Of The Dog Cup, and Kahawaty (Amy O’Driscoll) was a class above in the Holbrook Cup.
Add to that, MTR trained two Wagga trebles, which included our first ever trifecta.
Enjoying success all over the south, Mick and the team also landed doubles at Gundagai, Corowa, Wagga, and Albury, and enjoyed success at the Wagga, Albury, and Gundagai carnivals.
We welcomed Amy O’Driscoll and Charlie Anne-Murray to the team, and we’ve seen so much growth as we build toward a bigger and better 2026.
In 2025, we won races at Cowra, Corowa, the Sapphire Coast, Holbrook, Wagga, Goulburn, Carrathool, Cootamundra, Boorowa, Harden, Albury, Narrandera, Queanbeyan, and Gundagai.
Teaming up with many jockeys, we also experienced success with Amy O’Driscoll, Rebecca Bronett-Prag, Pierre Boudvillain, Shaun Guymer, John Kissick, Josh Richards, Blaike McDougall, Jessica Brookes, Brittany Button, Brendan Ward, Mathew Cahill, Leandro Ribeiro, and Emily Waters.
Incredibly, all of our success in 2025 was with tried horses – placing an exclamation mark on a breakout season for Mick and his hard-working team.
2026 promises to be a bigger and better year, and our stable is always welcoming to new owners with their horses, and owners looking to race upcoming purchases with MTR.
2025 winners
Mathrin (Mathew Cahill) Cowra Cup
Showrata (Pierre Boudvillain) Sapphire Coast
Kahawaty (Amy O’Driscoll) Holbrook Cup
Pussyfoot (Amy O’Driscoll) Wagga
Star Empire (Shaun Guymer) Wagga
Mathrin (Amy O’Driscoll) Corowa Cup
Saint Loft (Shaun Guymer) Goulburn
Hisako Lady (Amy O’Driscoll) Carrathool
Scruff’s Magic (Emily Waters) Cootamundra Picnics
Squeaking (Amy O’Driscoll) Goulburn
Cinephile (Rebecca Bronett Prag) Wagga Carnival
Scruff’s Magic (Leandro Ribeiro) Boorowa
Santolini (John Kissick) Wagga
Taluk (Pierre Boudvillain) Albury
Miss Pepeha (Mathew Cahill) Narrandera
Dita Von (Josh Richards) Corowa
Gioia River (Brendan Ward) Corowa
Swinging High (Amy O’Driscoll) Goulburn
Swinging High (Amy O’Driscoll) Wagga
Saint Loft (Blaike McDougall) Wagga
Taluk (John Kissick) Wagga
Cinephile (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Wagga
Sonic Scene (John Kissick) Wagga
Teresprit (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Queanbeyan
Suncone (Leandro Ribeiro) Harden Picnics
Santolini (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Albury
Star Empire (John Kissick) Wagga
Pussyfoot (John Kissick) Wagga
Sonic Scene (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Wagga
Dynamic One (Brittany Button) Gundagai
My Inspiration (Pierre Boudvillain) Gundagai
Mathrin (Jessica Brookes) Canberra
Gold Tracker (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Albury
Demi God (Josh Richards) Wagga
Gold Tracker (Pierre Boudvillain) Albury
Santolini (Rebecca Bronett-Prag) Goulburn
Demi God (Shaun Guymer) Wagga
WordsImage: Jeff Hanson
