Jason Collett

Firm Track Set To Suit Godolphin Filly

Posted on January 31, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jason Collett is looking forward to getting a better guide on the ability of Godolphin filly In Flanders when she strikes a firm track for the first time at Randwick. Fifth on soft ground at her debut in the Gimcrack Stakes in October, In Flanders was a well beaten second to reigning Golden Slipper favourite[...]

Posted on January 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

It was not a Group One race but Jason Collett got almost as big a buzz from delivering partner Clare Cunningham her first stakes win courtesy of a dashing front-running ride aboard Cradle Mountain. The horse had shown early promise winning six of his first nine starts but after a winter preparation Cunningham described as[...]

Posted on January 18, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

On a day when some horses have had to contend with foreign track conditions, Lashes has demonstrated her versatility in the wet at Rosehill. Saturday's surface was rated a heavy 8 for the first time since August and while some runners struggled, Lashes lived up to her favouritism in the Lou Cox Handicap (1100m). The[...]

Posted on January 4, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Lightly raced mare Lashes has made a winning return at Randwick to maintain trainer Matthew Smith's momentum. Smith enjoyed a stellar spring with stable star Fierce Impact winning two Group One races in Melbourne. Lashes and co are not in that class, but Smith believes the mare can build on Saturday's win in he Schweppes[...]

Posted on December 5, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The crippling effect of the drought on NSW country towns has Tamworth trainer Sue Grills rethinking plans to take in-form sprinter Burning Crown to Brisbane. While the gelding will head to Rosehill on Saturday for the Schweppes Handicap (1200m), Grills says the race is now likely to be his final campaign run. “With this drought,[...]

Posted on December 2, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jason Collett has ridden a double to finish fourth in the International Jockeys Challenge in Mauritius. The Sydney-based New Zealander represented his homeland in the series held over the two days of the weekend. Three-time Singapore champion, Brazilian Manoel Nunes who now calls Mauritius home, rode three winners on Sunday to take the title from[...]

Posted on November 21, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, Mauritius Horse Racing News

Top Sydney-based jockeys Glen Boss and Jason Collett have accepted invitations to compete in the annual International Jockeys' Weekend in Mauritius. Boss, who has enjoyed a stellar spring with wins in the $14 million Everest aboard Yes Yes Yes and the Epsom Handicap and Golden Eagle aboard Kolding, will represent Australia in the series. Collett[...]

Posted on November 13, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Newcastle trainer Jason Deamer says Bon Amis has put an ill-timed virus behind him and is back to his best ahead of the $1 million Hunter. The six-year-old stable star has been carefully managed since his last-start third in the Group Three Show County at Randwick on August 24. Deamer had originally intended to run[...]

Posted on November 9, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Ready For Danger is Magic Millions bound after scoring a third Country Classic win in four years at Rosehill for Murwillumbah trainer Matthew Dunn. In an at-times scrappy 2000-metre test, jockey Jason Collett held his nerve on Dunn's six-year-old runner to streak to an emphatic two-length triumph. “It was a good win in the end[...]

Posted on November 9, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Summer plans for stakes-placed filly Lucicello are uncertain but winning jockey Jason Collett has no doubt she can make her presence felt this campaign. The Chris Waller-trained three-year-old resumed off a let-up in Saturday's Shopper Media Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill and quickly rounded up her rivals to score comfortably. It was her first start since[...]

Posted on September 14, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Bjorn Baker has had a marvellous start to the season with two wins at Rosehill after starting the day's meeting with six metropolitan winners. Both Saturday's wins were close-run affairs with favourite Shock Alert ($2.90) taking out the Everest Carnival Handicap (1800m) by a head from Humbolt Current ($3.60). Another favourite, Irukandji ($4.20), prevailed[...]

Posted on September 7, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Veteran Articus has upstaged his more fancied rivals and earned a possible stakes-race tilt with a narrow win in the final race on Chelmsford Stakes day at Randwick. The eight-year-old hadn't been in the winner's stall for almost two-and-a-half years and was sent out $21 but responded to a positive ride by Jason Collett to[...]

Posted on August 24, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Disappointment has quickly turned to joy for jockey Jason Collett who won the opening race on Winx Stakes day at Randwick after originally being earmarked to ride a rival runner. Collett had been pencilled in to partner Bellarina Magic for Brett Cavanough in the TAB Highway Handicap (1100m) but could not make the filly's weight,[...]

Posted on July 17, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

An imported gelding who has spent more time on the sidelines than he has on the racetrack is poised to make an unlikely return to competition at Randwick. When King's Bay takes his place in the ATC Member Tours Handicap (1000m) on Saturday, it will be just his second start in the past six years[...]

Posted on June 27, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Fresh from landing an overdue Group One win, Jason Collett will look to keep his momentum rolling at Rosehill where he has a strong book of nine rides for eight different trainers. Collett was widely considered the best jockey in Australia not to have won at the elite level before he finally got his moment[...]

Posted on June 23, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News, New Zealand Horse Racing News

Ex-pat Kiwi jockey Jason Collett put some narrow defeats at the highest level well behind him on Saturday when he captured his first Group 1 victory in the saddle when successful on the Chris Waller-trained Invincibella in the Tattersall's Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm. “It feels pretty good this morning,” Collett said on Sunday as[...]

Posted on June 22, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Celebrating his first Group One success has resulted in a careless riding suspension for jockey Jason Collett. As he crossed the line first aboard Invincibella Collett raised his right arm in triumph but as a result stewards found he allowed the mare to shift in, causing interference to Winter Bride approximately 50 metres past the[...]

Firm Track Set To Suit Godolphin Filly

Cunningham Celebrates First Stakes Success

Lashes Dashes In The Wet At Rosehill

Lashes Makes Eye-Catching Winning Return

Drought Could Put End To Crown’s Campaign

Collett 4th In Mauritius Jockey Challenge

Boss, Collett To Ride In Mauritian Series

Bon Amis Primed For $1m Hunter After Virus

Dunn Wins Third Rosehill Country Classic

Lucicello Stamps Class With Rosehill Win

Double Delight For Bjorn Baker At Rosehill

Cameron Handicap Looms Large For Articus

Scone Mare Shows Heart To Win Highway Hcp

Injury-Plagued Import Out To Revive Career

Collett Sets His Sights On Gold

Collett gets Group 1 monkey off back

Collett Suspended At Eagle Farm

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