Gary Hall Snr awarded the Distinguished Service Award

At the Racing WA awards on Saturday night, champion trainer Gary Hall Snr was presented with Harness Racing Australia’s Distinguished Service Award.

The award is to acknowledge “Important Achievement, Substantive Effort, Enterprise, Endeavour, Creativity and Professional Excellence on a National or State Basis over a long period of time”.

Hall Snr certain fits all criteria.

Gary Hall Snr has been training for over four decades. In that time, he has amassed over 3560 career training wins, the most ever by a WA trainer and almost 1000 wins more than his closest rival, dominating the Gloucester Park premiership for two decades. He has won a staggering 61 Group One wins.

Hall Snr has won our greatest race, the Inter Dominion three times, including wins in NSW and New Zealand away from his home track. At Gloucester Park he has won a record 13 WA Pacing Cups and nine Fremantle Cups.

He has also trained five million-dollar earners: Im Themightyquinn ($4,567,546), Chicago Bull ($2,417,890), The Falcon Strike ($1,224,094), Beaudiene Boaz ($1,256,587 and My Hard Copy ($1,271592).

As a driver Hall Snr partnered the tough Zakara and also won the 1993 Inter Dominion consolation at Albion Park and Golden Nugget with Valley Champ trained by Des Parr.

Hall’s biggest wins as a trainer include:

• 3 x Inter Dominion Grand Finals
• 13 x WA Pacing Cups
• 9 x Fremantle Cups
• 6 x WA Derbies
• Auckland Cup (NZ)
• Blacks A Fake (Qld)
• Cranbourne Cup (Vic)

Gary Hall Snr was inducted into the RWWA Hall of Fame in 2014.

From Gloucester Park