The Melbourne Cup returned to Flemington racecourse with a bang yesterday, with crowds backmost astatine the Victoria Racing Club and fashionable Sydney jockey James McDonald steering Chris Waller-trained Verry Elleegant to an affectional win successful Australia's favourite race.
But the Cup - and the full outpouring carnival - had thing missing.
Melbourne's champion jockey, Jamie Kah.
The 25-year-old was the toast of Australian racing lone a mates of months agone erstwhile she became the archetypal pistillate to triumph the Scobie Breasley Medal - Victoria's astir prestigious jockey award.
Kah won the 2020-21 metropolitan jockeys premiership by riding a grounds 105 winners successful the season, and was adjudged the Victorian Jockey Association's astir invaluable hoop of the year.
She was the lone pistillate rider to contention past year's Melbourne Cup and she rode Prince Of Arran to a beardown 3rd spot successful the $8 cardinal feature.
Multiple-Cup winning proprietor Lloyd Williams proclaimed of Kah, "you couldn't find anyone riding immoderate amended successful the world".
It was an outstanding 12 months for Kah, announcing herself arsenic 1 of the apical hoops successful the country, possibly adjacent the precise best.
Her stellar signifier successful Melbourne followed a determination from South Australia, wherever she had won 4 premierships.
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She would person been definite to diagnostic successful the Melbourne Cup tract again this year.
Instead, it's each travel crashing down for Australian racing's aureate girl.
Kah finds herself successful a Supreme Court battle, attempting to overturn a suspension that volition - if upheld - regularisation her retired of the saddle until adjacent year.
It was soon aft her history-making play ended successful August, that Kah was caught breaching COVID-19 rules astatine a Mornington rental house.
She was 1 of 4 jockeys to person a three-month racing prohibition aft constabulary recovered the radical to person breached Victoria's laws by gathering astatine the property.
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Kah was subsequently deed with a abstracted two-month prohibition erstwhile Racing Victoria stewards claimed she lied to them successful regards to the attendance of chap champion hoop Mark Zahra.
That secondary prohibition is the 1 she's challenging successful court. The archetypal three-month prohibition lifts connected November 25, but the further suspension would regularisation her retired until the extremity of January.
Regardless, it's a important autumn from grace fixed Kah has outgo herself what would person undoubtedly been a palmy spring, and perchance her biggest Melbourne Cup carnival to date.
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