GALS will out-number the guys convincingly on the jockeys’ list for today’s Tamworth City Toyota Class 3 Handicap Heat of The Rising Star (1200m) for apprentices at Tamworth Racecourse.
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The annual Rising Star series focuses on apprentice riders and is run on a point system.
The $15,000 feature has attracted 12 starters – nine of those will be under the guidance of the fairer sex.
Bendemeer trainer Jane Clement, who will saddle up World Spinning (Rachael Murray) in the Rising Star, attributes the increase of females into the racing game to “mainly weight”.
“The boys seem to be getting too heavy these days,” she said.
“The girls are naturally light weights whereas the boys seem to struggle with theirs.”
Five-year-old gelding World Spinning can boast two wins from four back this preparation, and rates a strong chance in the eyes of his trainer.
“I was really happy with his run at Armidale the other day (when resuming from a five-week let-up with third of 13 in 1100m BM 55 company),” she said.
“He’ll be a good chance, especially over the 1200m.”
Clement will also saddle up Quietude (Vad Bolozhinskyi) in the same race.
The six-year-old was a winner over 1300m in BM 60 company at Armidale two starts back.
“He’s been running some good races, and Vad’s in good form at the moment,” Clement said.
Murray will also partner Clement’s Jedak in the 1400m CJ Britten Handicap – the six-year-old using today’s race as a final hit-out to the New Year’s Day’s Inverell Cup (1400m).
Jodi Worley (Keepa Coming), Eleanor Webster-Hawes (Crooked Blaze), Claire Nutman (Urban Knight), Kasie Stanley (Idle Shiver), Melinda Graham (Lady Jesse), Sophie Young (Exotic Art), Sam Clenton (Shower Of Hearts) and Sue Bigg (Memphis Mafia) carry the female hopes while Andrew Adkins (Speedy Squib), Vad Bolozhinskyi (Quietude) and Serg Lisnyy (Choovio) are the three male apprentices pitted against them.
