She rode a double on Friday and five winners at Mornington on Saturday, which, to some was “expected” though there’s nothing that can be taken for granted in horse racing.
Yesterday on Underwood Stakes Day at Sandown, Jamie Kah was at the fore again making the difficult look easy.
Her second winner of the day on Aesop to take out the Senet Gambling Law Experts Handicap was an absolute peach of a ride. It’s a cliché to say and write that, but there’s no other way to describe it.
The timing was so precise that, getting back to music, if a Rock guitarist like, let’s say, Jeff Beck, she made every note count.
Not one to be easily overawed, but Deane Lester, below, was almost speechless by that Aesop fabulous ride by Jamie Kah.
“Australia’s foremost racing analyst”, a damn fine gentleman and an excellent judge of a good ride- and a not-so-good one- was caught gushing at its perfection. Who could blame, Deano?
As one often reads, it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it, and on racing tracks throughout Australia, Jamie Kah is speaking a language all her own.
As she did on Sunday, she’s out there trading blows with riders the calibre of Damien Oliver, Blake Shinn, Craig Williams, Luke Nolan, and Timmy Clark, below, winning the Underwood, and continuing the always interesting adventures of the now Waterhouse-Bott trained Alligator Blood.
Add to these names, prodigious and exciting young riding talent like Jye McNeil, Ethan Browne, Blaike McDougall and challenging everyone to raise the bar.
Who’s better- Jamie Kah or Hollie Doyle? Who cares about comparing apples with oranges?Isn’t it always about horses for courses and sitting back and applauding talent and great performances?
Though in Hong Kong, and with there being racing at Shatin, where California Spangle, below, made it a one act affair by dashing away with the Celebration Cup, it would be churlish not to, well, celebrate a brilliant day of all-round quality racing at Sandown.
Horse racing doesn’t do it enough- give credit where credit is due. The Tall Poppy Syndrome usually gets in the way. Cut it out. It’s conduct unbecoming of adults.
Take a bow, everyone concerned at making Sunday at Sandown the success it was.
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