International Jockey Challenge.

We will have to diect the card and see which jocks get the good ones.

Any update on the Holland saga? Fallon would make a nice substitute if one is needed. Murtagh would be good, too.

Hopefully Phumelela don't throw a huge party for the jocks on the Friday night and hopefully the jocks can stay away from Mr. Lolly Jackson's establishments on Friday nigth so that they can bring their A-game on Saturday.
(It may be hard to accomplish the latter seeing that teasers now have the girl who was in the Joost video working there!!!!!)

I miss Jozi!!!!!!!!!!!!

He is still in the tin pale,infront of the Judge 2morrow

Tommy when you do come back, you are more than welcome to join us in the box at the big T

Thanks Dave, thats very nice of you!!! I'm hoping to invest in some bloodstock in SA pretty shortly and would love to come down for a visit!

Thanks again

Tommy would be good to get you in mate!

Imagine the lucky owner who gets Mick Kinane to ride his horse on the day..nothing could beat that privaladge

Two changes to International Jockeys Team
DUE to unforseen circumstances, jockeys Christophe Soumillon and Darryl Holland will not be joining the team of international jockeys to compete against a South African team on 21 November at Turffontein. They will be replaced by two other top notch riders, Seb Sanders and Jimmy Fortune.
Holland, according to his wife Jaqui, was wrongfully arrested while on a riding engagement in Cyprus last week and will only be released on Thursday, with bureaucratic red tape restricting his movements.
Soumillon, on a 60-day riding contract in Japan, was not able to receive clearance from his contracted Japanese trainer, something he didn’t believe would prove to be an obstacle when he originally accepted the invitation.
Their replacements, arranged by Jockeys Association Chairman Tex Lerena, are two of the most experienced and respected riders in Europe.
Seb Sanders (38), who started his career in 1990, was Champion Apprentice in the UK in 1995, and gained his first Group 1 success in 1997 in the July Cup at Newmarket on the 50-1 outsider Compton Place.
He took over from George Duffield in 2004 as first jockey to Sir Mark Prescott, and in 2006 rode Confidential Lady to victory in the French Oaks giving Prescott his first Classic success.
Sanders has been one of Britain's most successful flat race jockeys in recent years, having ridden over 100 winners every season for the last 5 seasons. He shared the prestigious UK title with Jamie Spencer in 2007 after a ding-dong battle that was well televised all over the world.
He is presently fourth on the UK Log behind Ryan Moore, Richard Hughes and Frankie Dettori. He has won Group 1 races in England, Ireland, France and Germany.
Popular Jimmy Fortune is well known to South African racing enthusiasts as the man who booted champion Raven’s Pass to victory for trainer John Gosden in 2007.
The 35-year-old Fortune has won four Group 1 races in the UK this year alone and is known as a shrewd judge of pace. His recent successes include wins on top filly Dar Re Mi in the Yorkshire Oaks and the Pretty Polly Stakes. His mounts have won over £9 million in the last five seasons.
THE REVISED INTERNATIONAL TEAM IS:
FRANKIE DETTORI
MICK KINANE
RICHARD HUGHES
SEB SANDERS
JIMMY FORTUNE
HALIS KARATAS

Penny

2 very decent replacements. looking forward to being there at meeting them all.

Excellent substitutes. Sanders is a former champ jockey and Fortune has blossomed into a big race rider who can hold his own with anybody.

As long as Frankie and Mick are here Im happy!

any idea what it costs this exercise as with all phumelela affairs i cannot see any sponsorship