âStressedâ Kah follows jockey rush to Queensland Jamie Kah. Pic: Getty. Comments
Jamie Kah admits she has been stressed by the situation which has forced her and other top Melbourne jockeys scrambling to get to Queensland early for a Group 1 Saturday because of potential new COVID measures in Victoria.
Kah was set to board a flight to Brisbane on Wednesday night, following the trail of other Victorian jockeys who had already made the decision to forgo Wednesday rides and head to the Sunshine State early.
With Victoria not ruling out a snap lockdown in response to new COVID-19 cases, jockeys including Melbourne Cup winners Jye McNeil and Craig Williams as well as John Allen and Ben Allen made the sudden decision to jet to Queensland on Wednesday.
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By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
The morning after Ciaron Maher and
Dave Eustace trained the quinella in the South Australian Derby – another notch on the belt of this extraordinary, youthful training duo – a wily rival trainer quipped: “look at them in the yard.”
“Sprinters, stayers, jumpers, they’re all the same,” the trainer said. “They just lope around, heads down. You look at a lot of trainers and their horses are yanking at the bridle, wasting energy. Ciaron’s horses are so relaxed. He gets inside their heads. The man is a freak.”
The ability of 37-year-old Maher to “get inside their heads” has been the magic ingredient of his training since the very start, way back when he had six boxes at his old man’s farm on the outskirts of
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DEANE LESTER’S ‘RAMA ROUGHIE’ FOR MORPHETTVILLE
May 7, 2021 8:53 am
By Jackson Frantz
Ciaron Maher and
Let’s Karaka Deel as his best value selection across the country tomorrow.
Lester is confident that the progressive staying prospect can peak stepping out over a proven distance in the Group 1
SA Derby.
“At the good odds on offer third up from a spell gives him a great chance,” Lester told
The Breakfast Club.
Let’s Karaka Deel will jump from barrier 15 in the field of 16 and is to be ridden by rising young hoop
Ben Allen.
SA DERBY – THE MOUSE THAT ROARED
April 14, 2021 10:44 am
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
For the second year in a row, the South Australian Derby is shaping as THE Derby.
A year on from
Dalasan and
Johnny Get Angry’s fairytale
Victoria Derby win against so-so rivals –
Morphettville is again poised to host the strongest Derby of the season.
The only non-runner of interest will be the
Bob Peters-owned
West Australian Derby was his fourth win on the trot.
Peters said today that Western Empire would be spelled and set for the Perth summer carnival where the Kingston Town Classic would be a major aim.