Gai Waterhouse Parents: Meet Gai Waterhouse’s Father Tommy J. Smith, And Mother Valerie Smith

Gai Waterhouse is an Australian horse trainer and businesswoman. Gai Waterhouse was granted her Australian Jockey Club (AJC) license in January 1992 and has since been training horses.

She is married to an Australian racing identity, businessman, form specialist, punter, a convicted criminal, and considered Australia’s best-known bookmaker, Robbie Waterhouse. They have one son called Tom Waterhouse.

Meet Gai Waterhouse’s Father Tommy J. Smith, And Mother Valerie Smith

Gai Waterhouse received her house training skills from her father, Tommy J. Smith. Tommy Smith who died on September 2, 1998, was was a leading trainer of thoroughbred racehorses based in Sydney, New South Wales.

Smith’s daughter Gai Waterhouse, took out a trainer’s license following a long-running dispute with racing authorities caused by her marriage to warn off bookmaker Robbie Waterhouse. Tommy married Valerie Smith, with whom he had his only child, Gai Waterhouse on September 2, 1954.