Beadman to act as Doyle's raceday mentor

Friday 27 February 2015, 5:30pm

An insight from a Hall of Fame jockey will accompany Godolphin rider James Doyle during his first foray into Sydney racing.

Rated one of the world's best jockeys before forced into retirement by injury in 2012, Darren Beadman now works alongside John O'Shea as an assistant trainer for Godolphin.

But it will be Beadman's experience in the saddle that will be invaluable when Englishman Doyle rides for O'Shea during the Chipping Norton Stakes meeting at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

Warwick Farm is a racetrack with its idiosyncrasies and Beadman rode it as well as any jockey of the modern era, winning the Chipping Norton Stakes four times between 1986 and 2003.

Doyle will ride the lesser-fancied of Godolphin's two Chipping Norton runners when he partners Hartnell.

The 26-year-old will also ride two-year-olds Mogador and Italy in the Skyline Stakes and Sweet Embrace Stakes respectively.

"Darren will talk James through the form as well as the specifics of the Warwick Farm track," Godolphin racing manager Jason Walsh said.

"There would be no better man to receive advice from."

Doyle and fellow Godolphin rider William Buick are confirmed to ride in Sydney on Golden Slipper day as well as over the two days of The Championships.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »