TAMWORTH Jockey Club will host some of the state’s best young apprentices at this Monday’s seven-race TAB meeting.
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The TJC received a large nomination list of 147 on Tuesday for the meeting, where one of the highlights will be a heat of the 2016-17 TAFE Western Sydney Institute Rising Star Apprentice Series.
The series is in full swing with Nyssa Burrells leading by a point from Blaike McDougall with another point to Andrew Adkins as the series headed to Tuesday’s fifth race at Taree.
Jason Devrimol celebrated his first Rising Star Series win after taking out heat 13 at Goulburn on Monday.
Devrimol won with the $8 outsider Il Dominatore for trainer Matthew Smith, with fellow apprentice jockeys Andrew Adkins and Nick Heywood rounding out the placings.
The final heat of the series, to promote vocational training and education in NSW, will be held at Hawkesbury on May 30.
Tamworth’s heat follows this Monday with Coffs Harbour (twice), Warwick Farm (twice), Wagga, Goulburn, Kembla Grange, Newcastle and Dubbo staging races, leading into the final heat at Hawkesbury at the end of May.
TJC general manager Damon Sullivan, said the series is decided on a points system, seven for a win, five for a runner-up, three for third and one point for any other placegetter.
“It’s great for the young apprentices,” Sullivan said.
“A great promotion for the kids.”
He hopes the Tamworth heat, the $20,000 Shay Brennan Constructions Benchmark 60 Handicap (1400m), can help some of the HNWRA based apprentices move up the table.
Scone apprentice Vad Bolozhinskyi is currently seventh with 11 points and coming off a treble at last Saturday’s Bingara Cup meeting.
Highest placed of the HNWRA apprentices is Mikayla Weir. She sits on 14 points, equal fourth with Nick Heywood.
Last year’s Rising Star winner, Travis Wolfgram, is way down the order in equal 26th spot with three points.
Tamworth’s acceptances will be taken on Thursday.
RISING STAR TABLE
Nyssa Burrells 19, Blaike McDougall 18, Andrew Adkins 17, Mikayla Weir 14, Nick Heywood 14, Matthew McGillivray 13, Vad Bolozhinskyi 11, Brock Ryan 10, Megan Taylor 10,Chris Williams 10, Jackson Murphy 8, Jason Devrimol 8, Koby Jennings 7, Rachel Hunt 7, Deanne Panya 7,Josh Oliver 7, Jodi Worley 7, Stacey Metcalfe 6, Miki Nakao 6, Melanie Bolwell 6, Mollie Partridge 5, Rachel King 5, Chelsea Macfarlane 4, Claire Nutman 4, Alena Skerritt 4, Travis Wolfgram 3, Jean Van Overmeire 3, Chloe Baker 3, James Innes Junior 3.
