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Warren Block's Daily Report - Friday, 3 JuLY 2026
- Jockey-Trainer provincial stats - Spotlight on Chad Lever
- Matrix day-by-day results for Friday and Saturday racing
- Wizard Freebie - The Wizard Matrix Report
- Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives Results
Jockey-Trainer provincial statistics - six states - Spotlight on Chad Lever
Today, jockeys drawn from the six states with the stats covering the past two years. Note, these stats cover the rider's results in all races, irrespective of location.
The Jockey/Trainer combinations that are included are based on the following criteria: The Jockey/Trainer combination is listed when a jockey's record shows at least 2 wins when riding the Wizard top-rater, or at least 3 wins when riding the race favourite, or 4 wins if the runner is in the $2.00 to $5.90 odds range, for that stable. Also included are the overall percentage stats for the jockey when riding a Wizard top rater or race favourite, for any stable.
To add to this weekly report, here is a Spotlight Profile of Chad Lever which makes for some interesting reading.
Chad Lever and his many supporters have reason to celebrate a career that has spanned three decades, during which he has achieved significant milestone victories and premierships across both South Australia and New South Wales. johntapp
Background and Family Connections
Born and raised in Port Augusta, South Australia, Chad was introduced to racing at an early age through his maternal grandfather, Fred Brodie, who was both a jockey and horse trainer. Chad started his own riding career in the mid1990s, having his first race in July 1996 and his first winner in September of that year. He outrode his claim within 18 months and became one of Adelaide's leading young riders. He won four Adelaide jockeys premierships - two as an apprentice and two as a senior rider. He is married to former jockey and now Hawkesbury trainer Claire Lever (ne Nutman), daughter of Hawkesbury trainer Richard Nutman. Claire retired from riding professionally in 2018, has since joined the training ranks, and now has a working stable of around 30 boxes at Hawkesbury. LinkedIn Claire Lever
Main Riding Locations
Chad initially focused on country and provincial tracks, first in South Australia and later New South Wales. Since relocating from S.A. he has established himself as a regular participant, and winner, on NSW country and provincial circuits. He has strong support among trainers outside the metropolitan area, and it has been his country and provincial success that has underpinned his reputation with those trainers. Chad took time away from race riding in 2022, but continued to ride trackwork and trials, and then returned full-time in NSW in late 2024. johntapp instagram]
Key Training Partnerships
As well as his close links with non-metro stables, a key association has been with the top-tier Bjorn Baker stable and Chad's success on some of this stable's runners is noteworthy. Another important aspect of Chad's later career has been the partnership with his wife, trainer Claire Lever, at their Hawkesbury base, riding work, educating young horses, and riding the stable's runners in races. In addition to the "Lever" stable, Chad has long been popular with a wide range of country and provincial trainers. In short, Chad's reputation has been built not on success with one dominant metropolitan stable, but on many enduring relationships. johntapp
Career Milestones
It is fair to say that Chad's career has been one of sustained success rather than Group race success, though he did enjoy Group 3 success on She's Discreet in the 1999 Dermody Stakes. Also noteworthy is one winning run that saw him ride ten winners in just eight days on country and provincial tracks. johntapp
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Matrix day-by-day results for Friday and Saturday racing
The tables show the results for the past eight weeks for the day on which racing occurred. So, today being Friday, this Matrix DOW (Day of Week) report covers the past eight Friday and Saturday 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 Freebie - The Wizard Matrix Report
The Wizard publishes on this page one of its Wizard reports or special features, either completely or a part thereof. Today, a Wizard Matrix (First Four) Report for one meeting. The full report and all other reports for all meetings for today are available now for subscribers
The Wizard Matrix report aims to assist subscribers contain the number of bets to manageable proportions and improve the strike rate.
Click here for an explanation of the Wizard Matrix report.
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 What-IF top-two Filtered, together with the Matrix W1+MaxR100 Selective qualifier, and the Matrix W1+*EO+MaxR100 Selective qualifier. Also included are the overall results for last week and the last four weeks. The 2024-2025 column shows the WRat results for the full 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 highlighted. Also, the single runner options are grouped separately, as are the two-horse and multi-horse options results, again to make comparisons easier.
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.)
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