03-07-2025
Eyes on Price in Malaysia
Another Australian jockey is jumping on the Kuala Lumpur cameo bandwagon - Will Price.
After the success gained by Blaike McDougall at his regular hit-and-runs to the Malaysian capital, a Victorian jockeys' room-mate is following suit.
And just like McDougall, Price, 25, is coming up mainly for the Buffalo Stable and champion trainer Simon Dunderdale.
Licensed only for one day at the Sungai Besi meeting on July 6, the son of former leading Adelaide jockey Simon Price, a regular fixture in both Singapore and Malaysia in the 90s, takes seven rides (Races 5 to 11) on the 12-race programme, including one emergency acceptor.
Besides bookending his inaugural Malaysian stint with rides for Lawson Moy (Buffalo's The Star and Thunderstorm in Races 5 and 11 respectively), Price will be aboard Dunderdale's wards for the remaining five bookings.
Unless first standby starter So You Fight gets a run in Race 6, the lightweight hoop will jump aboard Lightning Gal, Hypeman, Guru Fight and Valois.
A former Melbourne champion apprentice (2020-21) and winner of more than 240 races, Price fired blanks at Singapore's last two meetings.
But he is this time sitting atop a clutch of top fancies, such as last-start Buffalo winners Lightning Gal, The Star, debut winners Hypeman and Valois and the fast-improving Guru Fight.
Likewise, McDougall had no luck at his one-day visit for the final Singapore race meeting, but has been an instant success across the Causeway.
In 42 rides, he has chalked up an impressive strike rate of nine wins.
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