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RNZ Lisa Allpress. Photo: Photosport
She needn’t have, but Lisa Allpress worried when she got an email from Government House recently.
Instead of what the professional jockey thought it was, the message informed her she would be made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s honours list for services to the racing industry.
“It’s just quite overwhelming really. It’s just not something that I ever thought I would receive.
“It’s actually quite funny because it was an email from Government House and my tax was coming up and I thought ‘oh my god, I haven’t paid my tax and they’re trying to get the money’.
New Year Honour 2021: Leading jockey Lisa Allpress recognised for services to racing industry
30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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A totally mystified Lisa Allpress is also proud and humbled by her New Year Honour. Photo / Nicky Gray
Iain Hyndman is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleiain.hyndman@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui s champion jockey Lisa Allpress is proud, humbled and totally mystified after being named in the New Year 2021 Honour List. The 45-year-old professional jockey has been named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the racing industry.
Allpress is one of the country s most accomplished jockeys who, in 2013, was the first woman in New Zealand to achieve 1000 career wins. She now has more than 1620 wins, including around 100 international victories.