Jamie’s Okay
Jamie Spencer is recovering after undergoing surgery following a fall on the gallops in Newmarket on Friday
20th April 2020
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Jamie Spencer is recovering after undergoing surgery following a fall on the gallops in Newmarket on Friday
The decision must surely have had echoes of one of the unhappiest moments of his career when the Ballydoyle-trained Powerscourt was disqualified after passing the post first in the Arlington Million in 2004
“I always felt that maybe the decision to retire was, perhaps, slightly knee-jerk and I hoped that given more time to reflect he could change his mind”
Regards the reasons for his premature retirement, only he knows, and family is clearly the highest priority, but, increasingly so, it’s a dog eat dog world amongst jockeys, more about supply than demand, and the concentration of power is shrinking
As much as I love race riding, it is not something I want to do for the rest of my life
The historic Clairwood Racecourse in Durban will host the final leg of the three-meeting ACTS International Jockey Challenge on Sunday.
I think it is a serious insult to Bernard Fayd’Herbe and to Cape Racing in particular when our own champion jockey is not selected for the side
The International Jockeys Challenge, now in it’s 5th year and growing, is currently the only international horseracing event in South Africa
ROBYN LOUW: there was a certain amount of huffing and puffing about the latest International Jockey Challenge
Trainer Joey Ramsden cast a grey cloud over the afternoon at Kenilworth on 13 November when he produced a long-priced shocker in the R300 000 Gr2
The highly anticipated first race on the revamped Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack on Wednesday was well received by stakeholders, but was not without its drama
Cape lightweight Morne Winnaar has come a long way since being plucked from near ignominy by former Cape champion trainer Joey Ramsden over twenty years ago
The Rafeef purple patch continued in the 2025 Champions Season opener at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday with another crackerjack performer in the shape of Mon Petit Cherie who won the World Sports Betting Gr2 Fillies Guineas
A Transkei-born horseman who started as a Groom, the groundbreaking Lunga learnt the ropes from top men like Mitch Wiese, Glen Kotzen and Kumaran Naidoo
