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Maiden City Win For Palmer

TM Apprentice Michael Palmer declared that winning next seasons Brisbane Apprentice's title was his ambition after landing his first city winner aboard King's Victory at Doomben last week.

Palmer produced a copybook ride aboard the Warwick trained runner having it back worse than midfield on the fence before negotiating a passage to win going away.

The 17yo had only one previous ride in the city for his master Gillian Heinrich for a close second on Amaranthine. Palmer has earned respect from a variety of trainers since he won the Gold Coast Apprentice's title in his first year of riding last season. He currently has 27 wins this season and looks set to defend that title.

After a winning double yesterday, Michael currently claims 1.5kg at the provincial and country and 3kg's in the metropolitan area.
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Longshot Joe on Fire

Leading Brisbane jockey, Joe Bowditch has been the bookie's best friend in recent weeks with a spate of long priced winners and securing a top five finish in the Brisbane Jockeys Premiership.

The first of the winners was Alternate at Doomben on 11th June which paid $30 followed by Alpha Boy paying $19. It was then off to Ipswich where Joe saluted on Lesmartre in the listed Gai Waterhouse Classic paying a whopping $42 dividend. The final nail in the punters coffin was aboard the Harold Cox trained outsider Midnight Surprise which paid $65!
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Danny Does It With A Double

It has been a very quiet and frustrating period for champion jockey Danny Beasley and by his own admission possibly the toughest time he has had in the saddle.

Danny has always been one of the leading riders in the country, but the past 6 months have been what they say as "Character Building" but champions always bounce back.

Coming off a timely winner last Saturday at Randwick aboard the Guy Walter trained Ollie Vollie, Danny ventured to Canterbury on Wednesday with a sound book of rides and managed to ride a double in the final 2 races. The first of those was the Max Crockett trained Life's Too Short and backed it up when he steered the ever consistent mare Cloudygaze to victory for Warwick Farm mentor Rod Craig who Danny has formed a successful combination with over the years.

TM would like to congratulate Danny on this timely double and it's great to see him back in the winners list where he belongs.
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Tracy Gets Monkey Off Her Back

TM apprentice Tracy O'Hara, who has just received an extension on her apprenticeship until early December 2007 had a major goal before she becomes a senior rider. Tracy achieved that goal last Saturday the 19th of May at Rosehill Gardens when she won her first Saturday race aboard the Greg Hickman trained He's Canny. 

After drawing a wide and awkward barrier Tracy who covered plenty of extra ground in the run showed signs of maturity when she didn't panic and had them covered a long way out from the winning post. He's Canny who has had his fair share of niggling problems is very promising and all going well has a stakes win in store in the not to distant future. more...
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GRIFFIN AND PALMER CLAIM PREMIERSHIPS

Congratulations to TM jockeys at the Gold Coast with Daniel Griffin winning the Jockeys' premiership with an impressive 67 winners, whilst Michael Palmer took out the Apprentices' title with 29 winners.

Griffins tally was one of the best by a jockey at the Gold Coast in one season, bettered only by Ken Russell's 76 winners in 1980-81, Scott Galloway's 69 winners in 1999-00 and a 68 win haul by Chris Whiteley in 2003-04.

Griffin also capped off a great year by finishing 17th in the Australian Jockeys' Premiership with 105 winners at a strikerate of 1 winner every 6.6 rides.

Not to be outdone, Michael Palmer's haul of 29 winners to win the apprentices' title and finish third overall, is the third best tally by an apprentice behind champion jockey Michael Rodd's tally of 41 winners in 2000-01 and Paul Hammersley's 31 winners in 2001-02.

Both jockeys ride predominately for the powerful Gillian Heinrich stable, which equaled the record of winners by a trainer in a season of 44 winners. It took until the last race of the season for this achievement with Daniel Griffin completing a winning treble aboard the Heinrich trained Local Rules.

The Heinrich stable provided Griffin with one of the highlights of the 2006-07 season when he posted a double on stablemates Tour Guide and Spur Me On at the Magic Millions meeting in January.

For Palmer, it's now of to town every Saturday where he will be trying to win the Metropolitan Apprentices Title. Palmer has already ridden 3 metropolitan winners and is tipped to vie with another TM apprentice Adrian Coome for the Champion Apprentice this season.

A special mention goes to Joe Bowditch who did a great job during the season to finish fifth on the Brisbane Jockeys Premiership in his first full season since relocating from Adelaide. What makes the effort all that more commendable is he missed 2 full months through suspension.