Randwick trainers defend their turf Winless in three meetings at Randwick: Gai Waterhouse. A changing of the guard has been in evidence at Randwick this autumn, with trainers based at headquarters winning only three of 18 races on home turf. Names such as Waterhouse, Cummings, O'Shea and Begg have not been in the winners' column in the three meetings since Randwick reopened on April 1. It was left to Craig Carmody and the partnership of Neville and Chris Voigt for home-track success last weekend after Patinack's John Thompson with Tremec in the Chairman's Handicap on the opening day of the Randwick carnival. Premier trainer Chris Waller has had five winners on two carnival days. "I'm sure that is going to change on Saturday," Thompson said. [John] O'Shea has a couple of nice three-year-olds [Kingdoms and Sir Denzel] in the first and Gai [Waterhouse] has a very good team, and it is very hard not to see her winning a race or two. Randwick horses will be winning at Randwick on the weekend. The autumn has not been a wipe-out for Randwick trainers as they won a third of the races during the Rosehill carnival, five of which were group 1 winners. They dominated Golden Slipper day as Waterhouse had a group 1 double with Overreach in the feature and Pierro, the Anthony Cummings-trained Fiveandahalfstar won The BMW and Norzita gave Bart Cummings the Vinery Stud Stakes. Pickings have been slimmer on their home ground. Thompson hopes the group 1 winners will flow on home turf on Saturday, including Tremec in the Sydney Cup. The Zabeel four-year-old has won four of his past five and is a stayer peaking at the right time. "This was the goal at the beginning of the preparation but it seemed a long way away," Thompson said. He was always going to get better as the races got longer, and he is just suited where he is now. He has come on in leaps and bound, and being a Zabeel four-year-old is still learning and will only get better as he gets older. I'm pretty sure the trip [of 3200 metres] won't be a problem, and he has come through the Chairman's win so well. Another winning team from Randwick, the Voigts will back up Fernhill Handicap winner Riocetto in the Champagne Stakes. "It is just exciting to have a group 1 runner," Chris Voigt said. People are saying he is a wet tracker after last week but we have always had a very big opinion of him. We think he is really a stayer. Dad [Neville] won this race on Lady Eclipse [in 1983] as a jockey, and it would be great to win with him as trainer.