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Late trainer Peter Ball with wife Janice and daughter Gaye (right). Image by Callum McGregor

Racing NSW has been informed of the passing of former Gladstone and Kempsey trainer, Mr Peter Ball aged 84.

Mr Ball died on Saturday night following a long illness.

Peter trained in partnership with his daughter Gaye, and his son Tony Ball is now a successful Taree-based trainer who prepared a treble on his home track on October 20.

Peter rated Villamill as his best galloper having won the 2013 Kempsey Cup: “He won seven races including the John Carlton Cup on Grafton Cup Prelude Day.”

He also trained Art’s Got a Gun, a good money spinner with seven wins and 12 placings having accumulated more than $110,000 in prizemoney.

In later years his best galloper was San Marco who competed in the 2017 Inglis Classic at Royal Randwick won by Frolic.

The gelding went on to win five races including a TAB Highway at Royal Randwick and $166,000 in prizemoney.

At Taree yesterday, jockeys carried black armbands in the first race.

Read an article from Racing NSW Magazine on Mr Ball that appeared in the May 2018 issue - Gladstone Racetrack’s Lone Survivor