Melbourne’s Mark Zahra has ridden a winner at Ascot to help the Rest of the World team to victory in the Shergar Cup jockeys’ challenge. Hayley Turner, the captain of the Girls team, took individual riding honours with two winners and a second for 40 points, five more than Zahra,… Read More »
Group One-winning jockey Jamie Kah is set to realise one of her ambitions when she competes in England for the first time in the prestigious Shergar Cup at Ascot. Kah was last week named as one of the three riders on the female jockeys team for the Shergar Cup on… Read More »
Australian Cup-winning rider Jamie Kah is set to compete on the international stage after being selected to take part in the Shergar Cup at Ascot in England. Kah, who claimed her first Group One win in this year’s Australian Cup at Flemington on Harlem, has been announced as part of… Read More »
Hayley Turner has spearheaded the all-female team to victory in the Shergar Cup at Ascot and won the Silver Saddle by one point from Joao Moreira. The Girls team, comprising Turner, Hollie Doyle and captain Josephine Gordon, landed the team prize with a points total of 76, with the European… Read More »
Michelle Payne will have to pass a fitness test to ride in the Shergar Cup team jockeys challenge at Ascot. Payne was the centre of controversy when she left a media function for the event earlier than organisers wanted her to, citing illness. The British Horseracing Authority said she would… Read More »
Apprentice Hollie Doyle has been placed on standby to replace Michelle Payne in the Shergar Cup at Ascot but officials are confident the Melbourne Cup-winning jockey can take part. Payne has not been feeling well since she arrived in England and created a stir when she left a media event… Read More »
English racing fans were disappointed to hear that Michelle Payne is not going to ride in the Epsom Derby this Saturday, having been proposed some weeks ago as a potential jockey for rank outsider Diore Lia. In her absence an apprentice, Gina Mangan, who has yet to ride a winner… Read More »
South African jockey Gavin Lerena has played a starring role with a double to help the Rest of the World team to victory in the Shergar Cup at Ascot. In a competition that went down to the wire, the trio captained by champion jockey Silvestre De Sousa ended the afternoon… Read More »
Jockey Frankie Dettori heads to Ascot needing two winners to reach 3000 in Britain. Dettori came away from Newmarket with one winner on Friday (Saturday AEST) aboard Hollywood Road. Dettori was in flying dismount mood afterwards and keeping his fingers crossed he hits the landmark at Ascot in the Shergar… Read More »
Retired jockey Hayley Turner will make a one-day comeback to replace the injured Michelle Payne in the Shergar Cup at Ascot. Britain’s most successful female rider called time on her career last year but answered the call to join the girls team at the annual international jockeys’ competition. Melbourne Cup-winning… Read More »
