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Warren Block's Daily Report - Wednesday, 18 March 2026
- The "winningest" trainers report - SPOTLIGHT and SNAPSHOT on Danielle Seib (NEW)
- Matrix - day by day analysis of Wednesday & Thursday racing
- Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives Results
Australia's "winningest" trainers last week - SPOTLIGHT and SNAPSHOT on Danielle Seib (NEW)
Here is the list of trainers who trained at least a double at any of the Tab meetings last week, along with the jockeys for who rode the winners. This table is colour coded to highlight the outperformers and it is worth noting these stables and the combinations.
A key factor to be considered in selection-making is the stable, and the trainer-jockey combination. The Wizard weekly "winningest" trainer report is a valuable guide as to which stable/trainer and jockey-trainer combination is currently in form.
To add to this weekly insight, we SPOTLIGHT a particular stable and post an in-depth coverage of its record with different riders, over an extended period. Also, there is the SNAPHOT PROFILE of the featured trainer (via ChatGPT), which makes for some interesting reading about the less well-known trainers covered in this post. (For a more complete profile of Danielle click on the hyperlink below to The Thoroughbred Report and the excellent article written by Keely McKitterick ttrausnz.com)
Danielle Seib - Background and family in racing
Danielle grew up immersed in racing as the daughter of the late Muswellbrook trainer Lewis Seib, a lifelong horseman who had been a key member of the Brian MayfieldSmith stable during the era when MayfieldSmith famously broke Tommy Smiths 33year run of Sydney premierships. She recalls first falling in love with racehorses at four years of age when she was put on the back of a horse named Black Pixie at the Mudgee races, an experience that led to Pony Club and eventing from age five.[ttrausnz.com]
Before training in her own right, Danielle worked at Arrowfield Stud, handling yearling preparation, broodmare care, and pretraining young thoroughbreds, and she also rode trackwork and barrier trials while helping her father when he took out his trainers licence. After starting a Bachelor of Secondary Education in 2015, she originally aimed at a jockeys apprenticeship, but when her father died in 2017 she instead took out a trainers licence and assumed responsibility for a small team of eight horses.[ttrausnz.com]
Training base and stable growth
Danielle moved to Goulburn, completed her education degree with Honours in Science (Biology) in 2020, and combined teaching at Crookwell High School with a foreman role for leading Goulburn trainer Danny Williams while building her own team. She established Seib Racing at Goulburn with her partner Aaron Day, a member of a prominent harnessracing family and an accomplished farrier, and quickly became known for getting significant results from a compact stable. Her Goulburn base proved attractive to major ownership groups such as Champion Thoroughbreds because it offers a provincial environment only about two hours from Sydney, allowing horses to target city Highways without excessive travel. More recently, she has shifted her primary stable to Canberra to accommodate an expanding team, reflecting the upward trajectory of her operation. (thestraight+2)
Key horses and major wins
AssaultNBathory, a gelding the Seib family owned, was the horse that launched her career; under her care he won five races including two rich Highway events at Rosehill and Randwick in 20192020. Her association with Champion Thoroughbreds brought further prominence through Highway winners such as King Of Spades, Smokeshow and Amarantz, all successful in $120,000 Highways at Randwick across the 202223 season. Another advertisement for her training is Tudor Prince, a horse with previous tendon issues and a wind operation that she nursed back to win four races in succession, including two midweek metropolitan races, showcasing her patience and rehabilitation skills.[ttrausnz.com]
Publicly available stats show she has maintained a win strikerate around the midteens across recent seasons from a modest number of runners, underlining her efficiency and capacity to place horses where they can win rather than just compete.
Training style, jockeys, and placement philosophy
Owners and syndicators consistently describe Danielle as a highly detailoriented horsewoman who treats each horse as an individual, tailoring work and race programs according to their mental and physical needs. She rides a large proportion of her own trackwork, giving her a direct feel for how each horse is progressing, while her partner Aaron provides inhouse farriery, which improves continuity of care and allows finetuning of shoeing to suit each horses action and racing pattern.[ttrausnz.com]
Strategically, Danielle is known for being willing to travel to find the right race, particularly exploiting Racing NSWs Highway and countryboosted races to place horses where they can be most competitive rather than forcing them into unsuitable metropolitan company. Her communication with owners is also a point of difference: she emphasises transparency, detailed updates and managing expectations, and she openly acknowledges the satisfaction she gets from rewarding patient owners when a longterm plan comes together.[ttrausnz.com]
Like many successful country trainers, Danielle works with a range of jockeys who ride regularly in the southern NSW circuit. Among those who have partnered her horses with success are Pierre Boudvillain, Shaun Guymer, Jake Duffy, and Jean Van Overmeire. The collaboration between trainer and jockey is central to success in regional racing, and she has developed productive relationships with riders familiar with the characteristics of her horses and the tracks on which they compete. When she develops a successful pairing she tends to stick with it, contributing to a strong winning percentage for some of her regular riders, although the exact ranking of individual jockeys changes from season to season.
(If you would like to see a particular trainer profiled in SPOTLIGHT let me know via Everyrace Support contact.)
Matrix - day by day analysis of Wednesday & Thursday racing
The tables show the results for the past eight weeks for the day on which racing occurred. So, today being Wednesday, this Matrix DOW (Day of Week) report covers the past eight Wednesday and Thursday results. The day-after results are included so that they are available on race-eve, rather than only on race morning.
(The daily Matrix report aims to assist subscribers contain the number of bets to manageable proportions and improve the strike rate. The report is posted to our website between 10:30am and 10:45am each day with an update at 12 noon.)
Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives results
We publish these full results daily so that subscribers can see the results of the Wizard's ratings options, and Report-content, and thereby formulate a selecting and betting strategy that suits them individually. The Wizard ratings should not be seen as "tips", rather as objective assessments that can be used to inform one's own judgement as to the relative chances of the runners in a race.
The full day-by-day results for Wizard (Wrat) top 4 rated runners, the Raceday Qualifier, and the Matrix (MaxR) 100 pointer, the MaxR top-two, the Matrix W1+MaxR100 qualifier, and the Matrix W1+*EO+MaxR100 qualifier. Columns also show the overall results for last week and the last four weeks, and the WRat results for the full 2023-2024 racing season. This results summary is colour coded so that it is easier for readers to track the relative performance of the Top Rated (blue) and Top-Two Rated (green) ratings options on a daily, and longer term, basis. The best overall qualifier (yellow) is also highlighted.
The following table shows this week's results of alternative options with respect to possible Matrix Selectives combinations, as well as weekly summaries. These combinations are accessible via the Wizard MATRIX report which is posted to our website between 10:30am and 10:45am each day.
(Key: The first of the two columns for each Selective combination shows number of qualifying races and the second column shows the strike rate. Headings: RWM is Raceday,Watch,Magic, RWM 2/3 means two or three qualifying, Rday is Raceday report qualifier , Magic is Magic report qualifier, R/M is Raceday and Magic, WR1 is Wrat 100, MR1 is MaxR 100, Watch is a Watch report qualifier.)
The following table shows where the winner of each race run yesterday was rated by WRat, WMod, WHcp, and WExpk and was the qualifier in the Wizard Raceday Report. (Note: The Wrat [W] winner results report on both the top rated and top-two rated winners.) The Raceday Report winners under the Top Rated column are from those races where there was only one Raceday qualifier, and under the Top 2 Rated on the rare occasions where there were two qualifiers in a race.
Header: WMHER = WRat (W), WMod (M), WHcp (H), WExpk (E), Raceday (R).
For a full explanation of the table click: How to read the Wizard Ratings Results