Spare a thought for Jessica Drury, a young jockey from Tamworth; she is doing it hard after just returning to riding from a fall resulting in a broken right ankle, keeping her out of the saddle for several months.

On Saturday morning last, while riding track work, she had another fall and another broken ankle, this time it was the left one. 

Rick Hore-Lacy claimed, if he started another horse in the Magic Millions Classic, he would do it differently. 

He would get up there much earlier than he did with Clevadude, visiting horses need to be up there at least a month to acclimatise to the humidity. 

Dean Lawson got it right when he won the Magic Millions with Testa Rossa in 1999, he made the trip in two stages with his colt, winning at Randwick on Boxing Day, then going directly onto the Gold Coast.

Racing N S W stewards have acceded to a request from trainer, Kim Waugh ,to delay the declaration of a jockey for Harry Hotspur in the $250,000 Inglis Classic, over 1200 metres at Rosehill on Saturday, due to the shortage of senior riders.