Walker prepared 102 winners from his home base at Matamata and a stable at Rangiora. He also had the highest stakes tally, $3,711,249, and most listed or group race wins, 11.
He was the leading trainer in 2003-04 with 76 wins and in 2006-07 with 83.
James McDonald has become the fifth apprentice to top the riders' premiership. He joins John Dowling, Noel Harris, Opie Bosson and Michael Walker.
Dowling led the list in 1963-64 with 70 wins, and Harris did so in 1972-73. Bosson was top in 1997-98 (128).
Walker was the leader in 1999-2000 (his first season) and 2000-01 with totals of 131 and 182.
McDonald (16), who is apprenticed to his father, Brett, at Cambridge, had 125 wins. He is in his second season.
Hayden Tinsley is the leading strike-rate rider. The Palmerston North jockey had 77 wins from 406 rides for a strike rate of 5.27.
The Riccarton-based Terri Rae was the leading strike-rate trainer for the second successive year. She had a strike rate of 4.24, with 21 wins from 89 starters.
Sam Spratt amassed the greatest stakes tally among the riders with $3,401,000. She rode 112 winners and had a top tally of 13 group or listed race wins.
Premierships
Trainers
M Walker - 102
M and B Baker - 73
M Pitman - 68
L Latta - 62
J Wheeler - 60
S McKee - 57
P Harris - 55
G Rogerson, S Lucock, R Bergerson - 54
R Collett - 53
A Scott - 48
Riders
J McDonald (a) - 125
S Spratt - 112
M Coleman - 106
B Lammas (a) - 96
L Allpress - 80
H Tinsley - 77
M Walker - 78
D Walsh - 73
K Myers (a) - 70
O Bosson - 68
Others
Jumps rider: J Rathbone (22 wins); jumps trainer: J Wheeler (14).
Sire: Volksraad; broodmare sire: Centaine.
• Queen Sabeel farewelled the training partnership of Graeme Rogerson, Roydon Bergerson and Scott Lucock with a win in the listed $50,000 Northland Breeders Stakes for 2yr-olds at Ruakaka yesterday.
Rogerson has taken his wife, Debbie, into partnership for the new season.. They have eight runners at the Whangarei meeting today.
Bergerson has shifted from Awapuni to Tuhikaramea as an assistant trainer with the stable.
Queen Sabeel gave her sire Savabeel his second listed race winner from his first crop. He is also the sire of My Emotion, winner of the group three Thoroughbred Breeders' Stakes at Flemington.
Rogerson bred Queen Sabeel in partnership and retained a share in the filly after buying her back for $70,000 at the 2008 select yearling sale at Karaka. He also has a share in Savabeel, whom he trained to win the 2004 W S Cox Plate.
Savabeel (Zabeel-Savannah Success) stands at the Waikato Stud.
Queen Sabeel, who has won twice from three starts, is the first foal of Vanessatheundressa, a Carnegie mare who won three races.
Queen Sabeel was ridden by Michael Walker, who ended the season season with 78 wins and sixth place on the jockeys' premiership.
It was an amazing effort as he did not begin the season until December after suffering head injuries in a pig-hunting accident in May last year.
• Additional information for the meetings today:
Whangarei RC
Scratchings
Race 3: Le Borus.
Race 8: Luce's Li'l Star.
Weather, showery; track, dead (5); rail, true.
Canterbury JC
Rider
Race 9: Gusher: M Du Plessis
Scratchings
Race 1: Joint Effort.
Race 2: Formal Court.
Weather, fine; track, heavy (10), rail out 2m.
• Gai Waterhouse clinched her seventh Sydney trainers' premiership with a winning double at Warwick Farm yesterday, AAP reports.
She ended the season with 85 wins, 1 ahead of Peter Snowden.
Waterhouse won with Moti and Boca Chita yesterday. Snowden also had two wins.
Waterhouse was at a meeting at Randwick of owners, breeders and others in the industry to discuss the leakage of industry funds to corporate bookmakers and the possible merger of the Sydney Turf Club with the Australian Jockey Club.
