THE LIFE OF BART CUMMINGS
NAME: James Bartholomew Cummings
Born: Nov 14, 1927 in Adelaide
Began training in July 1953
AWARDS: AO 1982, Member Sport Australia Hall of Fame 1991, Sportsman of the year ABC 1975,
Bart was an inaugural inductee to the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2001 along with his arch-rivals Colin Hayes and TJ Smith. In 2008 Cummings joined Phar Lap as a Hall of Fame Legend
Group One winners: 266
Stakes victories 758
MELBOURNE CUP WINS
1965 – Light Fingers
1966 – Galilee
1967 – Red Handed
1974 – Think Big.
1975 – Think Big
1977 – Gold And Black
1979 – Hyperno
1990 – Kingston Rule
1991 – Let’s Elope
1996 – Saintly
1999 – Rogan Josh
2008 – Viewed
HIS NOTED ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE:
* The first trainer in the Commonwealth to pass $1 million prize money in a season (1973-74).
*When he won the 1989-90 Sydney premiership he became the first trainer to have won premierships in three states – NSW, Victoria and South Australia.
