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Warren Block's Daily Report - Wednesday, 27 May 2026
- The "winningest" trainers report - Spotlight on Billy Healey
- Wizard Freebie - Wizard Watch report
- Matrix - day by day analysis of Wednesday & Thursday racing
- Wizard Ratings, Raceday, Matrix, and Selectives Results
Australia's "winningest" trainers last week - Spotlight on Billy Healey
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 a period of two years.
The Jockey/Trainer combinations that are included here 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. Note, that these stats cover the rider's results in all races, irrespective of location.
Here is the Spotlight on Billy Healey (via ChatGPT and other sources), which makes for some interesting reading.
Billy Healey is based at the Sunshine Coast. Billy's involvement with horses began at an early age. In a relative short training career he is already making a name for himself as a thoroughbred trainer in Queensland.
Background and family in racing
Billy grew up in Queensland and first competed in show-jumping, winning junior/young rider championships in both New South Wales and Queensland and representing Australia at young rider level. While still at school he was already riding trackwork for well established trainers. At 17 he was too young to hold a licence, so his father Dale took out a licence and they began working tried horses together. When Billy turned 18, he formally joined Dale in a training partnership under the Healey Racing banner. Billy took over the operation as sole trainer after Dales passing in 2018, just two years into their training partnership. healeyracing.mistable horseracingonly+2
Stable location and facilities
Billy's stable is based on the Sunshine Coast, with his main barn on-course and he has additional training and spelling facilities at his 50 acre property Cloverdale in the nearby Glass House Mountains region. Cloverdale serves as a quieter, lowpressure environment for horses that prefer living in yards on a farm rather than a traditional oncourse stable, allowing him to freshen or rehabilitate horses away from the hustle of the racecourse. Billy also uses Sunshine Coast beaches, taking advantage of saltwaters therapeutic benefits to keep horses relaxed and sound. healeyracing+1
Jockeys most successful with the stable
The stable has regularly used top-twenty riders such Angela Jones, Andrew Mallyon, Cejay Graham and as well as emerging apprentices such as Jace McMurray. (Billy Healey Racing)
Major wins and notable horses
From his small team, Billy made an impact with staying and middledistance types, notably Instrumentalist, who ran third in the Ipswich Cup and fourth in the Caloundra Cup after being purchased very cheaply as a tried horse. Our Story and I Am Venus provided important early metropolitan wins, helping to establish the stable's profile in Brisbane and on the Sunshine Coast. In recent seasons his most significant breakthrough has been the rise of Cosmic Fire, whose victory in the Listed Queensland Day Stakes at Eagle Farm delivered Billy his first stakes success. healeyracing+2
Training methods and race placement
Billy emphasises keeping horses "happy" and treating each horse as an individual rather than following a rigid, onesizefitsall routine. He varies workloads, environments and programs - using both the oncourse facilities and Cloverdale farm to find the setting where each horse is most comfortable, particularly with older tried horses. Billy still rides a lot of his own trackwork, which he feels allows him to accurately assess a horse's fitness and readiness and to give more precise instructions to jockeys. He plans each preparation to "set" for target races, a philosophy strengthened by experience with leading trainers such as Darren Weir and his time assisting in "grand final" style campaigns. horseracingonly+2 healeyracing
Other racingrelated activities
Billy's role in Alligator Blood's postsurgery rehabilitation, conducted largely away from the public eye at his Sunshine Coast property, further underlined his reputation as a horseman trusted with complex recovery tasks. Beyond day-to-day training, Billy is involved in the commercial and bloodstock side of the sport. Alongside his wife Kelly, who operates Furlong Bloodstock, he is active at all major yearling sales, including the Magic Millions and Inglis auctions. Healey Racing Ownership instagram+3
Expansion
A significant recent development has been Billy's absorbing the stable of retired top trainer Mark Currie into his operations. This emphasised the respect there is for his expertise and application and has meant the stable has now expanded to around 80 horses in work across the farm and at Corbould Park.
Impact Value
In the first nine months of the current 2025-2026 season his starters delivered a strike rate of 11.4%, and an Impact Value of 1.1 when compared to trainers overall. In the full 2024-2025 season it was a strike rate of 17% and an IV of 1.62 which put him in the upper echelon of IV performers for that year.
(If you would like to see a particular trainer profiled in SPOTLIGHT let me know via Everyrace Support contact.)
Wizard Freebie - Wizard Watch report
The aim of the Wizard Watch report is to highlight on race-morning which horses have been the most significant firmers overnight and earlier on race-morning. This Wizard freebie is an extract of this report featuring some of the venues being covered today. The full report is available with the other Wizard "market sensitive" reports at 10:30am each day.
Wizard monitors race morning market trends over the first 3 hours of race day betting to determine which horses are anticipated to run above earlier pre-post expectations and which horses have had their higher probabilities confirmed.
Given the significance of this early/informed market action, the odds about the Wizard Watch Morning Movers naturally skew towards the shorter odds, but this is compensated by the strike rate. Double figure odds about successful Market Movers are rare, but each-way odds winners are backable.
Click here for an explanation of Wizard Watch.
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 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, 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