Jamie Kah

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Jamie Lee Kah (born 7 December 1995)[1] is an Australian jockey. Since October 2020 she has been the world's top-ranked female jockey. In 2020/21 she became the first jockey to ride 100 winners in a Melbourne Metropolitan racing season.

Life and career[]

Jamie Kah's parents John and Karen are former speed skaters who represented Australia at the Winter Olympics.[2] She grew up in Mount Pleasant in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where she began working at a friend's stables when she was 13.[2][3] She began her riding apprenticeship in 2011, rode her first race in March 2012 at Streaky Bay, and rode her first winner 14 days later at the Easter Saturday meeting at Clare.[4][5]

In her first full season, 2012/13, Kah won the Adelaide Jockeys' Premiership.[4] She won the Premiership for a third time in 2017/18, then moved to Melbourne in January 2019, and won her first Group One race on Harlem in the Australian Cup at Flemington in March.[4]

In October 2020 Kah was ranked the leading female jockey in the world, and 77th jockey overall.[6] In February 2021 she was the world's 41st jockey overall, and the only female jockey in the top 100.[7] She rode her 1000th winner at the Pakenham racecourse on Wednesday, 12 May 2021.[8] At the end of July 2021 she had ridden 1,024 winners, including six Group One winners.[9]

On 10 July 2021, Kah became the first jockey to ride 100 winners in a Melbourne Metropolitan racing season.[10] She finished the Metropolitan season with 105 winners.[11]

In September 2021 she was suspended for five months by the Victorian Racing Tribunal for breaching COVID-19 regulations and for providing false or misleading evidence to the breach investigation.[12] She appealed against the severity of the penalty to the Victorian Supreme Court, which upheld her appeal on 17 November, freeing her to resume riding.[13]

Kah and her fiance Clayton Douglas,[14] a fellow jockey and trainer, have a property on the Mornington Peninsula, where she re-trains retired racehorses.[2][5]

References[]

  1. ^ Dorries, Ben (8 December 2017). "How Jamie Kah rediscovered her racing passion". Racenet. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Schlink, Leo. "From pony club to a Cup dream: Kah's meteoric rise". Racenet. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  3. ^ Sexton, Mike (27 March 2014). "Winning ways: Young jockey Jamie Kah". ABC. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Jamie Kah". Racing and Sports. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  5. ^ a b Sporle, Ben. "Kah named Lady of Racing". Racing.com. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  6. ^ Smith, Chris (22 October 2020). "It's the Hollie, Jamie and Emma-Jayne show". Thoroughbred Racing Commentary. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  7. ^ "TRC rankings star: Jamie Kah". Horse Racing Planet. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Jamie Kah lands 1000 milestone win". Just Horse Racing. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Jamie Kah". Racing.com. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  10. ^ Reynolds, Ryan. "Kah etches name into history". Racing.com. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  11. ^ Eddy, Andrew. "Kah ends season with Valley double". Racing.com. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  12. ^ Eddy, Andrew (17 September 2021). "Kah banned for five months". Racing.com. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
  13. ^ Yeatman, Tim (17 November 2021). "Kah: I can't wait to get back". Racing.com. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Clayton Douglas". Racing and Sports. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
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