Darren Weir's exceptional year

Monday 31 July 2017, 6:09pm

AUSTRALIA'S FIRST TRAINER TO NOTCH UP A QUADRUPLE CENTURY

WEIR'S YEAR

* 449 wins (up from 348 last season)

* 2686 starters (up from 2209)

* prize money more than $24.6 million (up from $21.8m)

* 31 Group races including eight Group Ones

* He won in every state including his only West Australian outing at the Kingston Town Classic

* The Ballarat-based trainer prepared winners at 53 tracks

HOW MANY RECORDS HAS HE BROKEN?

* His 137 wins in Melbourne broke Lee Freedman's Victorian metro record of 115 from 2005-06

* Having broken John Hawkes' Commonwealth training record of 334 last year, Weir became the first to crack 400

* He won 14 of the 30 races at Warrnambool's May Racing Carnival

* Won Australian premiership

* Victorian premiership

* Melbourne premiership

* Victorian country premiership

– AAP

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