{"id":154282,"date":"2021-11-03T04:50:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T05:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=154282"},"modified":"2021-11-03T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:56:25","slug":"what-happened-to-aussie-racings-golden-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=154282","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Aussie racing's golden girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Melbourne Cup returned to Flemington racecourse with a bang yesterday, with crowds back at the Victoria Racing Club and popular Sydney jockey James McDonald steering Chris Waller-trained Verry Elleegant to an emotional win<\/a> in Australia's favourite race.<\/p>\n

But the Cup – and the entire spring carnival – had something missing.<\/p>\n

Melbourne's best jockey, Jamie Kah.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old was the toast of Australian racing only a couple of months ago when she became the first woman to win the Scobie Breasley Medal – Victoria's most prestigious jockey award.<\/p>\n

Kah won the 2020-21 metropolitan jockeys premiership by riding a record 105 winners in the season, and was adjudged the Victorian Jockey Association's most valuable hoop of the year.<\/p>\n

She was the only female rider to contest last year's Melbourne Cup and she rode Prince Of Arran to a strong third place in the $8 million feature.<\/p>\n

\"Jamie<\/p>\n

Multiple-Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams proclaimed of Kah, "you couldn't find anyone riding any better in the world".<\/p>\n

It was an outstanding 12 months for Kah, announcing herself as one of the top hoops in the country, perhaps even the very best.<\/p>\n

Her stellar form in Melbourne followed a move from South Australia, where she had won four premierships.<\/p>\n

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She would have been certain to feature in the Melbourne Cup field again this year.<\/p>\n

Instead, it's all come crashing down for Australian racing's golden girl.<\/p>\n

Kah finds herself in a Supreme Court battle, attempting to overturn a suspension that will – if upheld – rule her out of the saddle until next year.<\/p>\n

It was soon after her history-making season ended in August, that Kah was caught breaching COVID-19 rules at a Mornington rental house.<\/p>\n

She was one of four jockeys to receive a three-month racing ban after police found the group to have broken Victoria's laws by gathering at the property.<\/p>\n

\"WBBL<\/p>\n

Kah was subsequently hit with a separate two-month ban when Racing Victoria stewards claimed she lied to them in regards to the attendance of fellow champion hoop Mark Zahra.<\/p>\n

That secondary ban is the one she's challenging in court. The initial three-month ban lifts on November 25, but the additional suspension would rule her out until the end of January.<\/p>\n

Regardless, it's a significant fall from grace given Kah has cost herself what would have undoubtedly been a successful spring, and potentially her biggest Melbourne Cup carnival to date.<\/p>\n

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