Gordon Richards & Damien Moyle Racing - an Owner Insights Page

He was just a horse.

But a great horse to love, make you crazy excited and memorable moments aplenty.

VALE Gytrash 💙

Gytrash took trainer Gordon Richards and connections on an amazing journey. His biggest win came in the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington while he was placed in a William Reid, Newmarket Handicap, and twice placed in the Goodwood at the top level.

For some reason, there can be a lot of negativity in some social media regarding Oakbank Easter racing.

Here is a real positive.

“Dear Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle Racing,

Our daughter Clementine O’Connell and her horse, Jester, were sponsored by you in the Pony Exhibition races at Oakbank today.

Unfortunately they couldn’t get a win in your colours, however Clementine had a lot of fun. We really appreciated your support and thoroughly enjoyed the race day.

We just wanted to say thank you for your support, it was very appreciated.

Regards,
Clementine and the O’Connell Family”

Just imagine her excitement! 💕

“GIANT KILLER returns for assault on the 2026 Goodwood and another crack at the Everest”

Leading wine maker and picnic horse trainer Simon Tolley has revealed that he has been training Giant Killer GYTRASH, now a 10-year-old, to resume racing in the Adelaide Goodwood 2026.

“The view I have is that the horse is race ready and will be nominated for The Everest in October”, Simon said.

Simon stated he has employed an innovative solution to GYTRASH’S pre-training in preparation for the lead-up to the Goodwood.

This involves the current harvest of the Pinot Noir grapes at Simon’s Adelaide Hills winery and using GYTRASH to pull the wine-wagons through the vineyards rather than using the diesel tractor on a count of the shortage of fuel.

“There’s no doubt that he has benefited from dragging those 1100kg grape bins through the stoney dirt tracks, honestly- he looked like superman after a week of work”, smiled Simon.

Simon said that he’s seen some good indications from GYTRASH in the lead up and has been sprinting him over 200 metre runs from his paddock to the cellar door.

Previous trainers Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle said they were surprised to see the horse arrive at the Morphettville stables a couple of weeks ago.

“We rang Simon and asked what was going on, Simon said he was looking to get the horse shod and also had the horse booked in for a knee replacement.”

“Apparently the new technology in surgery works very well- a super keyhole replacement of the whole knee joint seems crazy”., said part-time DJ, Damien.

“Whilst this is rather unique and untried in Australia, we’re now pushing hard in being so close to commencing his racing career again”, said Gordon.

Simon Tolley said he had “been full of confidence” based upon a previous crystal ball reading and googling of how to get a horse back on the track.

A representative from the past ownership group who adore GYTRASH, looked surprised and shocked as well, however she stated that the group were very excited with the plans and will be making their way to the Goodwood and the Everest to watch the outcome.

“It’s not like he’s cost us anything to get to this point, we’d be mad to
miss the hospitality, free merchandise and first class travel that gets thrown at you, when racing at this level”.

Head steward Ima Phitzner said it was the first he’d heard of the plan but “would certainly cut corners to make The Goodwood happen”.

What a perfect match!

Incredible gate speed set this up, Alana confident in the running- sustained the competitive straight attack!

That’s 2️⃣ from 2️⃣ in this strategy ⚡️⚡️🔥🔥🌸

The Stalker, ridden by Alana Livesey, won the M&J Chickens Handicap at Morphettville for Gordon Richards & Damien Moyle.
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Great work!!

Congratulations to Gordon Richards and Damien Moyle, who are the 2025 Masters of our Dux Alana Livesey!

So much water and not a spot to dance!

Ex sprinter “Bold Star” lakeside keeping his cool during some warmer days.

Anna Jordsjo taking care of the mind and heart….

As James Reyne sang “Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, steal away, hide away”

Crikey- best run over 1200 since December 2022!

Tapinforpar, trained by Gordon Richards & Damien Moyle and ridden by Alana Livesey, won the Magain Fielke Real Estate Gawler Handicap at Gawler.
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Big unit W***y toughs it out on the Parks tack!

Gordon Richards & Damien Moyle, Taylor Johnstone and Royal Scripture teamed up to win the Sportsbet Green Tick Class Two Handicap at Morphettville.
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Damo having a well-deserved Friday away from the track ( he was still shooting out horse updates 🤦‍♂️ ) so Gordon takes the initiative with the dot.com folks failing to provide after race interviews- and winds back the clock to the six o’clock swill jargon.

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Winning! 🎉

Races@Morphettville 06/12/2025 Photo collection by The Rising Sun Photography

The racing industry is full of great people going the extra mile for the horse.

Our retired dancing Needs Further sprinter “Bold Star”really enjoyed his racing days.

Look how far he has come under new owner Anna Jordsjo’s care.

Time and effort- and an elated group of past connections!