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The Singapore Turf Club (STC) has granted 30 stable boxes to Mahadi Taib for the remaining 2022 racing season.
Singaporean Mahadi Taib, 50, spent his childhood days at the stables at the Bukit Timah racecourse, where his father worked as a syce. He first joined former trainer Buang Abu Bakar, the father of ex-STC trainer Mohd Yusof, as a syce at the age of 17. After completing his National Service, Mahadi continued to work as a syce for Yusof and New Zealand trainer Paddy Busuttin at Bukit Timah.
One year before STC relocated to the Kranji racecourse, Mahadi joined trainer Michael Clements where he gradually rose to the rank of a stable supervisor, before obtaining his assistant-trainer's licence in 2009.
Mahadi has since gone on to work with various trainers including Theo Kieser, Young Keah Yong, David Hill and John O'Hara before moving to Jason Lim's stable to work in the same capacity in January 2022.
