Leading Sydney apprentice Jenny Duggan will ride in Tasmania for the first time after being selected to represent NSW in the third heat of the National Apprentice Series at Launceston on Wednesday night. A former picnic race jockey, Duggan has made an impact on Sydney racing to be leading Sam [...]
The dark days appear to be over for Katelyn Mallyon. After spending months recovering from injuries suffered in a fall at Flemington in May last year, Mallyon was back in her element at Doomben on Wednesday, winning the National Apprentices Award Plate (1350m) aboard Skating Away. Mallyon savoured the win [...]
An impressive introduction to city racing from Lonhspresso on Wednesday had jockey Ben Melham predicting the filly could reach the top grade. Melham rode the Darren Weir-trained three-year-old to victory at Ballarat at her previous start but was even more impressed with the way the daughter of Lonhro put her [...]
Two of Australia’s leading female jockeys are set to return to racing within the next month. Katelyn Mallyon, last year’s Victorian apprentice of the year, and Michelle Payne have both been sidelined with injuries. Mallyon suffered a broken back in a fall at Flemington last May while Payne’s injury run [...]
Star teenage apprentice Katelyn Mallyon is set to complete her comeback from serious injuries with a return to racing next month. Mallyon has graduated from riding trackwork to competing in a barrier trial last week and said she was confident her return was on target. Last season’s champion apprentice, the [...]
The VRC today (Monday) officially launched the 2012 Melbourne Cup Carnival with a star-studded media event in the Atrium at Crown Towers, Melbourne. Sunrise Sports Presenter and MC Mark Beretta welcomed the Melbourne Cup Carnival’s four feature race trophies -– the AAMI Victoria Derby, Emirates Melbourne Cup, Crown Oaks and [...]
Here is The Spring Brief, your daily wrap of the racing headlines: Australia has three new Group 1 races. The Australian Pattern Committee (APC) has approved the upgrading of the Memsie Stakes (1400m, Caulfield, August/September), the Moir Stakes (1200m, Moonee Valley, September) and the Canterbury Stakes (1300m, Rosehill, March) to [...]
Reports of a threatened strike by Victorian jockeys over the treatment of injured champion apprentice Katelyn Mallyon have been hosed down. Mallyon was refused entry to the jockeys’ room at Geelong on Friday and at Bendigo on Sunday under a rule which permits only jockeys competing on the day to [...]
Injured apprentice Katelyn Mallyon has celebrated her Melbourne premiership win with the news she can return to trackwork in the near future. Mallyon’s season ended in May when she suffered serious injuries including a fractured cheekbone and lacerated spleen in a race fall and she had to watch on while [...]
Ben Melham is free to ride Mid Summer Music in the Tattersall’s Tiara at Eagle Farm having been granted a stay of proceedings pending an appeal against suspension. The jockey was outed for careless riding earlier this week at the resumption of an inquiry into a fall at Flemington which [...]
