Alan Gay

Alan has been involved in the racing industry for over 40 years. His career started as a bookmaker's clerk, a job his father had performed. He subsequently went on to hold his own bookmaker’s licence in 1982. Over the journey he has been involved with a number of horses and participated in several aspects of the thoroughbred industry. Although no longer a practicing bookmaker, he remains involved in the racing industry as a current owner. Outside of racing Alan has obtained a number of skills vital to the success of Napier Racing. He has been a successful small business operator. In addition, he spent 26 years as a financial manager for the Department of Defence, responsible for a budget in excess of 50 million dollars.

Adam Gay

Adam, like his father was born into the thoroughbred industry. With a bookmaker for a father, he can’t recall a time when he wasn’t going to the races. He is a current owner and has personally been responsible for the formation of a number of racing syndicates prior to the commencement of Napier Racing. Adam is also a qualified Doctor and Cardiologist and uses the skills obtained through years of education and research to assist in the selection of quality yearlings. As a qualified specialist in echocardiography (ultrasound of the heart), Adam has developed an interest in Equine Physiology and more specifically, the way it relates to racehorse performance. Most recently, Adam helped form Equine Heart, a company that specialises in heart ultrasound for horses.

Pedigree Analyst – Alan Porter

Alan Porter has been professionally involved with Thoroughbreds for almost 35 years, has been a writer on racing and breeding for more than 30 years, and has been planning matings for more 20 years.

After several years working on a stallion farm in England, Porter turned to journalism, joining Stud & Stable magazine. That publication eventually became Pacemaker, a journal on which Porter worked as Deputy Editor. Porter then served an eight year term as advisor for Mr. & Mrs. Bertram R. Firestone’s Catoctin Farm and Gilltown Studs.

Over the years Porter has written columns for The Daily Racing Form, The Thoroughbred Daily News, Pacemaker, The Blood-Horse Now, The Australian Bloodhorse Review, Stallions News, New Zealand Blood-Horse and Owner Breeder International. Porter has also authored three books on racing including Patterns of Greatness and Patterns of Greatness II – The Americans (co-written with Anne Peters). A speaker at numerous seminars and conferences around the world, Porter has also provided pedigree commentary on camera for New York’s Fox Sports network and for New York Times Television.

Alan Porter has been involved in planning breedings which have resulted in more than 100 stakes winners. They include three Eclipse Award winners in North America, as well as other Champions and Classic Winners in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, and group and grade one winners in at least 12 different countries. In Australia, his matings have produced such champions as Vintage Crop (Melbourne Cup), Polar Success (Golden Slipper), Typhoon Zed (The Galaxy) and Desert War.

Porter is quite simply, one of the world’s foremost pedigree experts and no horse is selected by Napier Racing without his input.

Veterinary Services – Dr David McKellar

Dr David McKellar graduated from the University of Melbourne and has been Sole Practice Principal and Director of The Racetrack Practice since 2002.

Dr David McKellar brings a huge amount of equine clinical experience to Napier Racing ranging from mass gelding of feral colts on the outback stations of the Katherine region through to the veterinary care of show jumpers and hacks belonging to Queen Elizabeth II stabled at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk during a stint working in the UK.

Dr David McKellar currently does yearling/pre-purchase inspections for Jonathan Munz (GSA Bloodstock) David Hayes, Shadwell and Brian Mayfield-Smith Racing. Furthermore, some champions placed in Dr McKellar's Care include Fields Of Omagh, Sunline, Media Puzzle, Brew, Maybe Better, Rubitano, Innovation Girl, Miss Finland, Tawqeet, Niconero, Pernod, Dash For Cash, All American, Reaan, Von Costa De Hero, True Jewels, Makybe Diva, Oliver Twist, Magical Miss, Meurice, Above Deck, Miss Pennymoney to name a few!

The Racetrack Practice and Dr David McKellar also have a special interest in the diagnosis and management of lameness, poor performance in racehorses, particularly stress/ overtraining injuries and the management of this syndrome.

Finally, in order to maximize our chances of racetrack success no horse is purchased by Napier Racing without a veterinary clearance from Dr David McKellar.