New apprentice jockeys in action today
Published:Wednesday | September 2, 2009 | 8:33 AM
The new apprentice jockeys who recently graduated from the Jockeys’ School will begin riding at Caymanas Park this afternoon following a six-month training course.
The batch of 19, including the lone female Georgina Sergeon, graduated at a ceremony on the lawns of the Jamaica Racing Commission last Thursday.
Sergeon, who gave the valedictory address, has secured two rides on the 10-race programme. She will be aboard the outsider MASS JOE in the second race over 1500 metres and SHE’S AGGRESSIVE in the sixth race over 1400 metres.
Four of new apprentices have secured rides in the second race where they will come up against two-time champion jockey Omar Walker, the success story of the previous batch in 2006.
Post time on the card, which features the Cecil C. Charlton Trophy, is 1 p.m.