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The ownership structure of Rob and Annabel Archibald\u2019s training business is changing. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nThe ownership structure of Rob and Annabel Archibald\u2019s training business is changing. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Hong Kong billionaire Tony Fung\u2019s Aquis will end its role with Annabel and Rob Archibald\u2019s training business, one of Australia\u2019s leading stables, from the start of November.<\/p>\n
Annabel Archibald (nee Neasham) has officially welcomed her husband and training partner Rob as a shareholder in a new entity, Archibald Racing. <\/p>\n
Daniel Bender, a director of Annabel Neasham Racing and senior Aquis executive, wrote to the trainers\u2019 service providers on Tuesday outlining the change of business structure shortly before Rob and Annabel Archibald informed their clients of the new entity. The handover will happen on November 1.<\/p>\n
Annabel Archibald told The Straight that nothing would change in the day-to-day running of the tri-state stable \u201cother than a change of bank account\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cRob and I are married now and it just makes sense to just have \u2026 an (ownership) restructure, but nothing changes in terms of horses, owners and staff, everything remains the same, really,\u201d Archibald said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a restructure and a rebrand, but it\u2019s certainly business as usual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aquis was contacted, but a spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n
Archibald Racing Pty Ltd was registered in July. The new shareholding, with Annabel and Rob 100 per cent owners, was registered on September 15. <\/p>\n
Among the directors of the previous entity, Annabel Neasham Racing Pty Ltd, which was registered in August 2020. are Aquis associates Bender and Greg Benneworth.<\/p>\n
Fung was the major backer of Archibald when she first obtained her trainer\u2019s licence and set up the business in 2020 where she was and continues to be based out of Sydney\u2019s Warwick Farm racecourse.<\/p>\n
Aquis supplied Archibald with a number of horses to train early in her career and transferred talented colt Mo\u2019unga to her after his three-year-old spring campaign in late 2020.<\/p>\n
The move paid off with the son of Savabeel, who was previously trained by Chris Waller, winning the Group 1 Rosehill Guineas in the autumn and the Winx Stakes as a spring four-year-old.<\/p>\n
Since opening her stable, the 13-time Group 1-winning Archibald has expanded her presence to include stables at Eagle Farm in Brisbane and, more recently, at Flemington in Melbourne and Scone in country NSW.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With her husband Rob officially joining her in a training partnership from the start of last season, they have developed into one of the biggest stables in the country at the same time as Fung\u2019s ownership of horses trained by the pair appeared to decrease.<\/p>\n
Last season, they finished fourth on the national trainers\u2019 premiership with 236 winners behind Ciaron Maher, who Annabel worked for prior to going out on her own, Waller and Lindsay Park\u2019s Ben, Will and JD Hayes.<\/p>\n
They are currently third in the Australian trainers\u2019 premiership behind Waller and Maher almost three months into the new racing season.<\/p>\n
Archibald\u2019s first runner as a trainer, Commanding Missile, won at Scone on August 25, 2020, at Scone.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
To date, Archibald has trained 760 winners, 468 in her own right and another 292 in partnership with Rob.<\/p>\n
Her best horse was European import Zaaki, the winner of four Group 1 races in Australia who was sourced by Archibald and Blandford Bloodstock\u2019s Stuart Boman at the 20220 Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale at Newmarket in England.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve lost a couple of headline horses who have retired or got on a bit, so we\u2019re looking at the new influx of the younger horses coming through,\u201d Archibald said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m actually heading to England for a couple of days (next week) for the Horses in Training Sale as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are always looking forward, trying to find new horses, new superstars hopefully and I\u2019m excited for Rob as well with a little bit of a rebrand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony Fung Investments has spread its racing portfolio around to a lot more stables in recent years and also joined the James Harron colts and fillies syndicates at the yearling sales in 2025.<\/p>\n
Annabel Neasham Racing isn\u2019t the only training business which has had financial backing from outside sources, with the Tulloch Lodge training business sold by Gai Waterhouse to Hong Kong businessman PK Siu in 2016.<\/p>\n
Adrian Bott, whose father Tony and brother Aaron run the Siu-owned Evergreen Stud Farm near Newcastle, was installed as the trainer in a partnership alongside the legendary Waterhouse soon after the sale of the Tulloch Lodge business was completed.<\/p>\n
Almost a decade on, and the pair remain in a partnership and continue to train from Tulloch Lodge at Randwick and from stables at Flemington.<\/p>\n
Waterhouse and Bott have trained almost 1400 winners and 29 Group 1 winners in partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ownership structure of Rob and Annabel Archibald\u2019s training business is changing. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri\/Getty Images) Hong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-516369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115410850593594704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}