McDonald’s dominant Melbourne Cup carnival gave the champion jockey five Group 1 wins for the spring carnival, joining Brett Prebble at the top of the national standings, one win ahead of Hall of Famer Damien Oliver. Nature Strip’s narrow win over Masked Crusader and Eduardo in The Everest at Randwick last month earned the race a Timeform rating of 126.3 and the No.1 ranking. With the ban on interstate horses competing in the Perth summer carnival due to pandemic protocols, Waller finishes the year as this season’s leading Group 1 trainer with four majors followed by Peter Moody, James Cummings and Annabel Neasham who each prepared three big-race wins. The Everest has edged out the Melbourne Cup as the highest rating race of the spring carnival. Waller and jockey James McDonald combined to win The Everest-Melbourne Cup double as they cemented their rankings as the nation’s leading trainer and jockey. The Timeform ratings for the spring carnival are slightly different to the World’s Best Racehorse rankings with Incentivise on 129 just ahead of Nature Strip 128 and Verry Elleegant 127. Verry Elleegant’s Melbourne Cup win earned her a 122 rating and moved the champion mare into the world’s top 20 rankings at equal 14th alongside Caulfield Cup winner Incentivise and The Everest runner-up Masked Crusader. The Everest is invariably the nation’s highest-rated race each season and certainly the premier sprint so it is a farcical situation that the race has not been afforded Group 1 status due to interstate racing politics. Waller’s crack colt Home Affairs bounced back from his unplaced run in The Everest with an outstanding win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes. The Melbourne Cup, won by Verry Elleegant, rated just below The Everest. Lost And Running was fourth in The Everest then second in the Classique Legend Stakes before winning The Hunter. Joe Pride’s brilliant sprinter Eduardo followed his third placing in The Everest by winning the Classique Legend Stakes. The Everest form has also been further strengthened with three others sprinters coming out of the rich Randwick sprint to win $1m-plus races during spring. According to the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities, prize money for races worldwide reach almost 3.5 billion a year, while the global betting industry for horse racing generates over 116 billion in revenue each year. The Chris Waller-trained Nature Strip franked The Everest form with his runaway win in the Darley Sprint Classic at Flemington, confirming his ranking as the world’s best sprinter. Horse racing is a lucrative sport that’s popular all over the world. These race ratings are reflected by the latest Longines World’s Best Racehorse rankings where Nature Strip is the highest-rated Australian-trained racehorse with an official 124 rating that has him equal seventh behind American champion Knicks Go on 128. As season seven of Racing Dreams comes to a close, relive some of spring racing's finest moments. This year's spectacular spring racing carnival created a plethora of wonderful memories as Sydney emerged out of a marathon lockdown.

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