Tag: jockey
French Derby preview: Clive Cox happy with Ghostwriter’s draw for Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly | Racing News
Clive Cox was “very happy and relieved” to avoid a wide draw with Ghostwriter in Sunday’s Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly, live on Sky Sports Racing. The son of Invincible Spirit carries rock-solid credentials into the French Derby after overcoming trouble in running to finish fourth in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket. That form…
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Frankie Dettori: Dazzling Santa Anita display sees six of the best for Italian jockey | Racing News
Frankie Dettori fell just short of producing an American version of his famous magnificent seven when riding six straight winners on the Santa Anita Derby card. The Italian memorably won every race at Ascot back in September 1996, on a day which cost British bookmakers an estimated £40m. Now based across the Atlantic after abandoning…
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Graham Lee: Good Racing Company launch new racing club to raise funds for injured jockey 20 years on from Grand National victory | Racing News
Twenty years on from Graham Lee’s famous Grand National victory aboard Amberleigh House at Aintree, a new racing club has been launched to raise vital funds for the injured jockey. Lee, 48, suffered a serious spinal injury after being unseated from his mount Ben Macdui as the stalls opened for a race at Newcastle in…
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Stefano Cherchi: Jockey suffers internal bleeding and head injury after fall at Canberra in Australia | Racing News
Jockey Stefano Cherchi has suffered a head injury and internal bleeding during a fall in Australia. The 23-year-old, who has ridden 106 British winners, fell from Robert Quinn’s Hasime at Canberra. The New South Wales Jockeys Association said: “Following a fall at Canberra today {March 20], Stefano Cherchi has sustained a head injury and internal…
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Kieran O’Neill: Jockey fumes at ‘flawed’ drug test after failing two swab tests; BHA defends system | Racing News
Kieran O’Neill has been left furious after being stood down at Southwell following two non-negative swab tests, a decision the jockey has described as “embarrassing”. O’Neill was unable to take his two rides at the Nottinghamshire venue on Tuesday night after failing two sweat/saliva samples. According to BHA rules, should the second sample also return…
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Dylan Kitts: Exclusion order lifted on suspended jockey | Racing News
The British Horseracing Authority has lifted its recently-imposed exclusion order imposed on suspended rider Dylan Kitts for failing to comply with an investigation. The jockey finished third aboard Hillsin at Worcester in July last year and was referred by the raceday stewards for the ride, with the horse banned from running for 40 days and…
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Dylan Kitts banned: Jockey handed exclusion order for failure to comply with Hillsin investigation | Racing News
Jockey Dylan Kitts has been issued with a disciplinary officer exclusion order having failed to comply with an investigation into his ride on Hillsin in July last year. Kitts was aboard the Chris Honour-trained gelding in a two-and-a-half-mile conditional jockeys’ handicap hurdle and moved smoothly into contention in the home straight. But the then five-year-old…
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Joe Anderson: Jockey produces miracle recovery to win Sussex Stayers Handicap Hurdle at Plumpton on Transmission | Racing News
Joe Anderson made an astonishing recovery to produce one of the rides of the season and register the biggest victory of his career aboard Transmission at Plumpton. Placed the last twice in the hands of the conditional jockey, Neil Mulholland’s seven-year-old was sent off at 9/2 to claim the most valuable race on Sunday’s card,…
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Storm Babet: Jockey Hayley Turner reveals dramatic escape from flooded car by fire service as she chased 1,000th winner | Racing News
Jockey Hayley Turner has revealed she required a dramatic rescue from her flooded car on Friday en route to Redcar, where she had hoped to ride her 999th career winner. Turner was expected to ride Run Zarak Run but never made it to the North East track as her vehicle became stuck. The 40-year-old rang…
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Hollie Doyle: Jockey receives one-month suspended ban from BHA after testing positive for traces of Dihydrocodeine | Racing News
Hollie Doyle has received a one-month suspended ban by the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after testing positive for traces of Dihydrocodeine, a painkiller used to treat an elbow injury she suffered in January. Doyle tested positive in April this year when she returned from a broken elbow sustained in a fall at Wolverhampton in January.…
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