"During his remarkable career, Bart Cummings trained 268 Group 1 winners (listed here), from Stormy Passage, in the 1958 SA Derby, to the last, Hallowed Crown in March 2015 in the Randwick Guineas. Along the journey he trained 1265 Stakes winners with an amazing 45 Stakes races in the 1974-75 season."--Title page.

The great Australian and Australia's greatest horse trainer Bart Cummings died aged 87 on 30 August, as the racing world was preparing for the start of the famous Spring Carnival. The carnival climax is the Melbourne Cup, with which Bart has become synonymous because of his record 12 wins, spawning his nickname The Cups King. Cummings, a racing legend through deed and through designation, having been given that rare status by the Australian Racing Hall of Fame, is immortalised in bronze at Flemington, the scene of his Cup wins from 1965 (with the great and brave mare Light Fingers) to 2008.