RYAN TO DIVIDE HER TIME BETWEEN WYONG AND NEW VICTORIAN BASE

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WYONG will remain an important NSW base for Sara Ryan as she takes on a new challenge in Victoria.

Whilst the experienced horsewoman has been chosen to train from the historic Macedon Lodge at Mt Macedon (about 45km from the Melbourne CBD), she has stressed she will continue to have runners from her Wyong stable.

“Whilst of course I’m excited to have the opportunity to train at Macedon Lodge, I am definitely keeping my Wyong base,” Ryan said today.

“I would not have made the decision to train in Victoria as well if I did not have such a good team looking after the horses here.

“Group 1 winning trainer Steve Farley will be in charge at Wyong, where I have 28 boxes on course.

“I will take a couple of horses with me when I start at Macedon Lodge on September 1.

“But I will also be regularly active at Wyong.

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“It will be a week on, week off situation between the two centres.”

Ryan, 31, branched out as a public trainer at the beginning of last season after a successful stint as Domeland’s head trainer on the Central Coast, having trained 60 winners, including

two Royal Randwick features – the $3m Big Dance (1600m) with Attractable in 2023, and $1m Provincial-Midway Championships Final (1400m) last year with Matcha Latte.

She also won the Coffs Harbour Cup with the now retired Attractable three months before he captured the Big Dance.

Ryan’s first winner was Prefect Match at her home track in July 2022.

She was head-hunted by businessmen Bruce and Michael Dixon’s Macedon Lodge operation following an extensive search for a young trainer to help drive the next chapter of the property, which has produced six Melbourne Cup winners since it was developed at the turn of the century.

“It’s a fantastic opportunity,” Ryan said.

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“I’ve been to Macedon Lodge and ridden there, and it’s a state of the art facility.

“Horses won’t want for anything.

“Macedon Lodge has capacity for 200 horses, but I’ll be starting off with a lot less than that.

“I’ve got 18 unraced young horses, and we will start building the team once I get there.”

Ryan began the new season by scoring with Oceans One at Gosford on August 6, and has a stack of acceptors at Thursday’s Rowley Mile meeting at Hawkesbury.

They are Red Deer (Provincial Maiden Handicap, 1500m), Master Zous (Midway Class 1 Handicap, 1200m), Basilica Babe (3YO Maiden Handicap, 1000m), and Galactic Force, Diamond Model and Truce (Benchmark 64 Handicap, 1300m).

STORY JOHN CURTIS, AUGUST 18, 2026