Phone: (02) 8399 0090
Mobile: 0418 281 447
Email: info@proventhoroughbreds
ADDRESS
PO Box N72
Grosvenor Place, NSW 1220
About Us
Jamie Walter is the sole director of PROVEN THOROUGHBREDS AFS Licence No 301464
and PROVEN THOROUGHBREDS SERVICES ABN 44 057 777 349
Jamie's lifelong passion for racing can be traced to the childhood competition of shows and pony club sports days at Mudgee in the Central West of N.S.W. At the age of 20 Jamie bought his first racehorse from beneath the big Moreton Bay fig tree at William Inglis' Newmarket Sales Complex(www.inglis.com.au) Fatefully that $900 purchase, racing as Docalter, went on to win 7 races including a trio of successes in town. The dye had been cast!
Innumerable winners and dying maidens followed whilst Jamie pursued a career in radio as an announcer at Sydney's 2UW and Triple M. Aware that John Laws and Doug Mulray were in a different class, Jamie headed overseas in 1983 working in the US under Hall of Fame trainer NEIL DRYSDALE in LA and later MARK TOMPKINS at Newmarket in England.
On his return Jamie joined with a handful of friends to race city winners and stakes placegetters like Gerard, Swanky Sea, Ardiles, Lady Canaveral and Wittenberg. They're still trying to forget the names of the slow ones!
A subsequent decade in the financial derivatives industry and sports journalism at 2GB failed to quell the pull of racing. So, in 2002, mindful that one trainer per family was probably enough, Jamie launched PROVEN THOROUGHBREDS with little fanfare. City winners like Market Unit, Go Cart, Studio Star, Mr Incredible, Lyncean Academy, Hells Bells and the stakes placed Craiglea Fame followed.
Racing manifold horses over 30 years has not been without its lessons.
- Luck and hard work are more likely to produce a good horse than any magical formula or self-percieved gift
- Without exception everybody buys duds!
- Owning a winner is a rare and indescribable thrill
- Like any industry, communication is paramount
The PROVEN THOROUGHBREDS model is built around communication. Our aim is to ensure all owners "live the journey" from purchase to the racetrack.