Trainer steals Gai's thunder but racing's First Lady will be back with a bang soon If hasn't exactly been Gai Waterhouse's carnival but ignore her powerful stable at your peril. Picture: Alex Coppel Source: The Daily Telegraph GAI Waterhouse trained nine winners at the three Randwick autumn meetings last year, six on the first two days - Derby Day and Doncaster Day. This year she has not trained any on the first two days. But, don't you dare think racing's First Lady is on the wane. Just as Chris Waller would not have enjoyed Gai's fabulous success last year, Gai would not be over the moon with the new King On The Block training six winners over two states on Wednesday and leading in a winning treble, including the two Group 1s, at Randwick on Saturday. A lot of success with big stables is cyclical and every dog has his (or her) day. In Sydney we are lucky that both Waterhouse and Waller are so keenly competitive and to quote an often-used cliche, "racing is the winner." Throw in Peter Snowden, backed by the might of the sheiks, and in Sydney we have it all. PIERRO has retired, All Too Hard is getting ready to retire and It's A Dundeelnf is running in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday and then chasing the Cox Plate and possibly the Melbourne Cup. What three champion three-year-olds to have in the one year, but who is the best? My vote would go to It's A Dundeel and you will see what I mean on Saturday. THE ATC is considering moving the statue of TJ Smith from the centre of Randwick to the Theatre Of The Horse and renaming the new enclosure the, "TJ Smith Theatre Of The Horse." This is a soft solution to placate the masses who all want the new grandstand to be called the Tommy Smith Stand rather than the Queen Elizabeth Stand. Forget racing's royalist minority, it has to be the Tommy Smith Stand. You just can't be so ignorant of public opinion. A LEADING rider is carrrying on like a sook for getting taken off a few good rides. Fair dinkum, how does this bloke think he gets a lot of his good rides? It is because other jockeys get taken off them. If I was him I would be more worried about the kids snapping at the heels of the top riders. I don't think it will be long before there is a changing of the guard, with young jockeys like Blake Shinn, Tommy Berry, Brenton Avdulla and Nathan Berry becoming more than just competitive. Watch out, Nathan Berry is not the big sleeper of the group. Tommy's twin brother showed again on Everage on Saturday that he is no slouch and it is just a matter of time before he too cracks the big time. I CANNOT recall a bigger winning margin in a classic race at Randwick in the past 50 years than Royal Descent's 10-length victory in Saturday's Australian Oaks. Tulloch (56 years ago) won the Derby by eight lengths, Strawberry Road and Beau Zam won by 5-1/2 lengths and Beau Zam won the St Leger by 9-3/4 lengths, but 10 lengths could be a new mark. Like Might And Power's 10-1/2 length win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in 1998, Royal Descent won on a heavy track, which could have exaggerated the winning margin. But, wow, what a win. NASH Rawiller on Royal Descent, Tommy Berry on Doncaster winner Sacred Falls and Peter Robl on Keith's Legacy in the last all showed the folly of going too wide and wasting ground on a heavy Randwick track. All three saved lengths and lengths on their rivals on the home bend by taking the short cut and, although Rawiller then got wide in the home straight, the other two hugged the rails all the way up the running. Considering the rain we had, the Randwick track was super and the men in charge, Nevesh Ramdhani and Lindsay Murphy, should take a bow.