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Angela Jones suspended after Eagle Farm treble which hurts her premiership hopes
Angela Jones' Eagle Farm treble saw her snatch the lead in the Brisbane jockeys' premiership, but her title hopes were dented by a suspension from the Group 1 Tatt's Tiara. Jones' tremendous trio of winners gave her a one-win lead over good friend and fellow jockey Emily Lang. But there was a sting in the tail late in the day with stewards grilling Jones over her ride on fifth-placed favourite Floozie in the Group 1. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Stewards also had winning jockey Tom Sherry in the room, in an inquiry into Jones shifting out on Floozie and Sherry shifting in on winner Tashi, going past the 200m mark. Runner-up Abounding and roughie Bubba's Bay were the meat in the sandwich in the incident. Jones pleaded not guilty, insisting to stewards that the shift from Sherry on Tashi had 'more than half'' the bearing on the interference. 'I don't think it's worthy of a charge,' Jones said. Stewards disagreed, charging Jones with careless riding and suspending her for 10 days to start after next Saturday's Winx Guineas meeting on the Sunshine Coast. Chief steward Josh Adams said the shift from Sherry had been taken into consideration when imposing Jones' penalty. The riding ban is the last thing Jones needed on the day she hit the lead in the Brisbane premiership race and she seems almost certain to appeal to the Queensland Racing Appeals Panel. Immediately after imposing Jones' suspension, stewards had Sherry back in the room. They found he was only 20 per cent culpable for the incident and issued the former Irishman with a severe reprimand. It somewhat soured a great day for Jones, who also surged past 100 winners for the Australian racing season.
News.com.au
5 hours ago
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- News.com.au
Angela Jones suspended after Eagle Farm treble which hurts her premiership hopes
Angela Jones ' Eagle Farm treble saw her snatch the lead in the Brisbane jockeys' premiership, but her title hopes were dented by a suspension from the Group 1 Tatt's Tiara. Jones' tremendous trio of winners gave her a one-win lead over good friend and fellow jockey Emily Lang. But there was a sting in the tail late in the day with stewards grilling Jones over her ride on fifth-placed favourite Floozie in the Group 1. Stewards also had winning jockey Tom Sherry in the room, in an inquiry into Jones shifting out on Floozie and Sherry shifting in on winner Tashi, going past the 200m mark. Runner-up Abounding and roughie Bubba's Bay were the meat in the sandwich in the incident. Jones pleaded not guilty, insisting to stewards that the shift from Sherry on Tashi had 'more than half'' the bearing on the interference. 'I don't think it's worthy of a charge,' Jones said. Stewards disagreed, charging Jones with careless riding and suspending her for 10 days to start after next Saturday's Winx Guineas meeting on the Sunshine Coast. "It's Tashi's tiara!" ðŸ'' Tashi brings the blessings today and wins the Tatt's Tiara for @SnowdenRacing1, and doesn't @tomo_sherry love it, a Group 1 win! 🙌 @BrisRacingClub â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 28, 2025 Chief steward Josh Adams said the shift from Sherry had been taken into consideration when imposing Jones' penalty. The riding ban is the last thing Jones needed on the day she hit the lead in the Brisbane premiership race and she seems almost certain to appeal to the Queensland Racing Appeals Panel. Immediately after imposing Jones' suspension, stewards had Sherry back in the room. They found he was only 20 per cent culpable for the incident and issued the former Irishman with a severe reprimand. It somewhat soured a great day for Jones, who also surged past 100 winners for the Australian racing season.
News.com.au
8 hours ago
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Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch celebrates huge win in Battle Of The Bush Final after avoiding ban
Lindsay Hatch has gone from facing a 12-month ban from training horses to Battle Of The Bush Final winner in the space of just a few months. The Toowoomba trainer fought a 12-month suspension for a cobalt offence earlier this year but emerged from the draining saga with only a $7500 fine. Now he and in-form jockey Angela Jones, who started as an apprentice at Hatch's stable, have won the Battle Of The Bush final after striking grey Peshwa took the honours at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The five-year-old gelding looked like a drunk giraffe in the straight but Jones used all her skills to get him over the line by a nose at $14 odds ahead of Under The Limit ($14) and favourite Invahir ($3.90). Hatch was suspended by stewards in relation to racehorse Dream Lantern returning a post-race urine sample containing cobalt above the permitted threshold after winning at Ipswich in August last year. He continued to train on a stay of proceedings and appealed the decision. Hatch eventually copped a $7500 fine in early March, although the strain of the drama left his wife Tracey an 'emotional wreck' and cost him about $40,000 in legal fees. Now he can celebrate one of the best wins in his training career. The Battle Of The Bush lives up to its name! Ghostly grey Peshwa takes it in a photo finish ðŸ'¸ Two Eagle Farm winners for Ange Jones already today ðŸ'° @BrisRacingClub — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 28, 2025 'It was enormous, I'm still shaking,' Hatch told Racenet from Townsville. 'I've got runners up here tomorrow (Sunday) so I'm just checking on my stable. 'I spoke to Ange this morning and said 'he's an ordinary horse to ride, he can lay in'. 'He didn't lay-in nowhere near as badly as he had previously but she was on to it and had the whip in the right hand. 'We both thought he was a good chance if he got the right run and she rode him beautifully.' Asked if Jones was the best rider to control the wayward gelding, Hatch replied: 'One hundred per cent. I think the light weight (53kg) helped him too because he's been carrying big weights. 'Ange is riding superbly and it's a big thrill to have her win a race for me, I can tell you that. 'It's a credit to how far she's come and it's great to see her ride so many winners. 'My wife and my two kids follow her and love her too so it's great for the family. 'I said to Ange 'I guarantee when you jump on him you'll love the horse because he's a good-looking animal'. 'Knowing Ange she'll love him – she loves all the horses – but she'll love him even more.' Jones said it was a pleasure to score a victory for her old boss Hatch. 'You know his horses are always going to be rock-hard fit, and they're going to run a good race, no matter what price they are,' she said. 'These big races mean a lot to him and all these country trainers, so it was super to get the job done. 'I was three-deep in the run but we had cover, so I was pretty happy. 'He wanted to lay-in down the straight so he was a little bit difficult to ride, but I was prepared for it and when the third horse gave us a bump, it straightened him out and might have won us the race. 'He was strong late and managed to get the job done.'
News.com.au
9 hours ago
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Angela Jones receives praise from Rob Heathcote after bringing up 100 winners for season at Eagle Farm
As star young Queensland jockey Angela Jones cracked her 100th winner for the racing season, trainer Rob Heathcote had the words of another top trainer ringing in his ears. Jones, who hails from country Charters Towers and had her family watching trackside at Eagle Farm, produced a typically cool ride to score the first race on Amuseantes for Heathcote. It didn't take Jones long to raise the bat for her ton of national winners this season, after she started the day on 99.5 winners. After watching Jones produce an ice-cool ride to steer Amuseantes ($14) to victory in the QTIS 3YO Fillies Plate, Heathcote was full of superlatives. 'I heard Tony Gollan interviewed about Angela Jones maybe four or five months ago, when she had just given one of his horses a brilliant steer,' Heathcote said. 'Tony said something about Angela that has always stuck with me. 'He said that not only is she an enormous talent, she is a beautiful person. 'And that just comes through in her riding. 'She never panics, she never gets high anxiety and she is so patient and beautifully balanced. 'I mean look at that ride (on Amuseantes), she won that race for me.' Angela Jones lands an early blow on Tattersall’s Tiara Day, slicing through the field aboard AMUSEANTES for Rob Heathcote. Could this be the start of a massive day for the rising star? ðŸ�† #QLDisRacing — RaceQ (@RaceQLD) June 28, 2025 Jones was thrilled to score her 100th winner, but it was a surprise to her that it came in the first race. 'This filly was one of the few maidens in the race, so I didn't think she could win today,' Jones said. 'But she probably should have got her maiden out of the way by now and she did everything right today.' Meanwhile, James McDonald said he wished the Group 1 JJ Atkins was still to come after the dominant win of Chris Waller 's two-year-old colt Autumn Boy in the Listed Tatt's Stakes (1400m). The JJ Atkins has already been run and won – by Queensland colt Cool Archie – but McDonald is sure Autumn Boy would have been hard to beat if he had contested it. Autumn Boy, a young son of former Group 1 champion The Autumn Sun, started favourite in the Tatt's Stakes and didn't have the easiest run but was still too good. Autumn Boy 'leaves' them chasing in the Listed Tatt’s Stakes for the two-year-olds... and remains unbeaten! ðŸ�‚ @cwallerracing @mcacajamez @BrisRacingClub — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 28, 2025 McDonald is predicting the youngster can go onto big things in the spring after he made it two from two. 'He is a beautiful horse, he is lucky the JJ Atkins is not in another two weeks as he could have been winning that,' McDonald said. 'He is a very promising horse and he is only going to get better and better.'
News.com.au
2 days ago
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Star jockey Angela Jones goes from the Queensland outback to the Group 1 big smoke of the Tatt's Tiara
She was the little kid who grew up in outback Queensland, thinking the Melbourne Cup was Australia's only horse race. On Saturday at Eagle Farm, the jockey who was raised on a cattle and grain property about 100km from Clermont can ride her first Group 1 winner and also pass the magical mark of 100 wins for the season. The Angela Jones story is quite extraordinary. 'When I was a kid, I knew what the Melbourne Cup was but I didn't know that there was races all year,' Jones said. 'My parents had no real knowledge about racing and neither did I. 'We would watch the Melbourne Cup once a year, I would get excited a couple of weeks out thinking I could watch the horses on TV and I thought that was cool. 'We would have the TV channel on racing for half an hour once a year and that was about it. 'I was home schooled up until I was about 15 or 16 so I had pretty flexible school hours. 'I would get up pretty early and I can remember sometimes being finished with my schoolwork by 9am. 'Then the rest of the day I would be following Dad around with whatever he was doing.' Jones is one of an ever-increasing group of female riders taking Australia by storm. She has never had a better chance to soar into racing's Group 1 club than she will have riding Tony Gollan's winning machine mare Floozie at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Jones has won four straight on Floozie since the mare came north from Victoria and she is fighting out favouritism in the Group 1 Tatt's Tiara, the final Group 1 of the Australian racing season. If it wasn't for Jones' determination and drive to be a jockey when she was young, she would have ended up in another profession. Parents Jason and Julie had no racing background and they assumed it was a passing fad when their girl wanted to explore the possibility of being a jockey. 'When I got into it Dad was of the opinion that it wasn't a career, it was something I was just mucking around with,' Jones recalls. 'My parents did say they wanted me to go to university and I was like 'I will do a gap year', because I didn't really want to go to uni. 'Even when I got into racing, I guess Mum and Dad just thought I was going to uni at some point. 'To begin with, it was like 'when are you going to get a real job and go and get a career?' 'But I told Mum that being a jockey was what I really wanted to do. 'She knows how stubborn I am so she was supportive a bit earlier, she could see it was what I was going to do anyway. 'Dad probably didn't get into it initially, he probably didn't get on board until a few of his mates started talking to him about it.' Jones went to boarding school in Charters Towers and made friends with the family of local trainer Robert Kirkwood. Robert's wife Sally is a horse instructor and it helped further the racing passion of the young Jones. But she still had little idea of the path towards trying to become a professional jockey. There was a pivotal moment one day when she went to watch the races at Charters Towers. 'I went to the local races and I ran into (former jockey and apprentice mentor) Shane Scriven,' Jones said. 'I said to him, 'can I be an apprentice?' 'I just had the idea that whatever I did, I wanted to give myself the best opportunity to do the best I could. 'I had a sister in Toowoomba, so I asked if Toowoomba was a good place to start. 'As a kid, I thought I wanted to grow up and do something with horses. 'Racing seemed pretty cool but it didn't seem to be something I would be able to do. 'I just didn't know anyone that did it or how to get into it. 'But it all really started to happen from that chat with Shane.' Jones is known for being as calm as a millpond and she has approached the week of her big Group 1 opportunity in the same way as any other week. It may be because she still has to pinch herself that she gets the chance to ride horses for a living. 'I will just treat the Tatt's Tiara like it is any other race,' Jones said. 'For me, it all started with a connection with horses. 'I was just happy that I got a job with horses, which was always my dream. 'I'm just happy being out there and I guess I forget about a lot of other things when I get on a horse. 'If you get to a point where you are trying too hard, you can over think things and make the wrong decisions.' Apart from hoping that Floozie elevates her into the Group 1 club, Jones can tick off another major milestone at Eagle Farm on Saturday. She currently sits on 99.5 winners (including a half point for a dead heat) in the Australian jockeys' premiership this season.
