Sunday, May 18, 2003
WILLIE CARSON TO PRESENT THE FIRST DICK HERN TROPHY AT GOODWOOD
Goodwood’s opening day of the 2003 season, Tuesday, May 20, sees the presentation of a new award, the Dick Hern Trophy, which will go to the leading trainer each season at the Sussex racecourse.
Willie Carson, now a pundit for BBC Television’s racing coverage and previously Hern’s stable jockey for 12 years, will make the presentation to Amanda Perrett.
The trainer, who gained nine successes in 2002 at her local racecourse, will receive a specially-commissioned bronze sculpture by Philip Blacker together with a permanent memento of a medallion and a magnum of Veuve Clicquot champagne.
Hern, who passed away on May 22, 2002, at the age of 81, loved nothing more than sending out a winner at Goodwood.
One of the greatest post-war trainers, he retired at the end of 1997. He was champion trainer four times and had a great record at Goodwood, where he won most of the big races during his 41-year training career.
The first of his 115 winners at Goodwood came when Trimmer was successful in the 1959 Trundle Stakes.
Over half of Hern’s Goodwood successes came at the Festival meeting. He won back-to-back Sussex Stakes with the great Brigadier Gerard and Sallust in 1971 and 1972, with both going on to victory in the Celebration Mile.
Harayir also took the Celebration Mile in her successful classic season in 1995. Troy was one of his six winners of the Predominate Stakes and then captured the 200th Derby in 1979.
WENDYLL WOOODS LICENCED IN HONG KONG
The Hong Kong Jockey ClubLicensing Committee has made the following riding appointments for the 2003/2004 racing season:-
Freelance Jockeys’ Licences
Howard Y T Cheng
Eddy W M Lai
Vincent S K Sit
Henry K C Tsang
Simon H K Yim
Alex K S Yu
Apprentice Jockeys’ Licences
Way M W Leung
Paul P H Lo
Jacky C K Tong
Thomas K T Yeung
Retained Jockey’s Licence
The Committee approved rainer Sean Woods’ application to retain Wendyll Woods as his stable retained rider for the 2003/2004 racing season and agreed to grant a jockey’s licence toWendyll Woods for that racing season.
WendyllWoods is well known to Hong Kong racing, having been first licensed as an apprentice jockey for the 1983/1984 racing season. After completing his apprenticeship during the 1985/86 racing season, Woods was first retained by Lawrence Fownesfor the 1987/88 racing season up until the 1991/1992 racing season. Woods then rode overseas until the 1996/1997 racing season when he returned to Hong Kong to again be the retained rider for Fownes, a position he held until the 2001/2002 racing season.
Club Jockeys’ Licences
Douglas Whyte
Shane Dye
GerardMosse
Glyn Schofield
Felix Coetzee
Weichong Marwing
2. The Committee agreed to grant a part season (1.7.03-25.4.04, both dates inclusive) to Robert Fradd
3. The Committee agreed to grant part season (1.7.03-14.12.03, both dates inclusive) to Daniel Beasley, Anthony Delpech, Dwayne Dunn, Anton Marcus and Craig Williams
4. The Committee agreed to grant a part season (20.10.03-25.4.04, both dates inclusive) to Torsten Mundry
5. The Committee also agreed to defer making a decision on two remaining Club jockey appointments for the period 1.7.03-14.12.03, both dates inclusive until the current racing season in Hong Kong draws closer to a conclusion.
6. All Club Jockeysˇ| Licences were granted subject to an undertaking that those riders so granted a Club Jockeyˇ|s Licence must arrive in Hong Kong by no later than Sunday, 17 August 2003.
South African jockey Anthony Clet Delpech is 34 years of age and currently leads the South African jockeys premiership with 229 winners, 20 winners ahead of his nearest rival. During the 1998/1999 South African racing season, Delpech rode 333 winners to establish a new record and has ridden 18 Group 1 winners, 23 Group 2 winners, 22 Group 3 winners and 23 listed winners. He has ridden in excess of 1,500 winners during his riding career and has also ridden with success in Dubai, Singapore and Mauritius and gives his riding weight at 110 lbs.
German jockey TorstenMundry is 32 years of age and has ridden in excess of 900 winners including 27 Group winners. Included in these wins are the Group 1 German Derby (twice), the Group 1Preis von Europa as well as the German St Leger (twice), the German 2000 Guineas, the German 1000 Guineas and Swiss Derby. He has also ridden with considerable success in Macau having ridden 35 winners from 238 rides. He gives his riding weight at 119 lbs.
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