Singapore for Allpress
Date: 12 Apr 2013
Another Kiwi is looking towards an exciting venture in Singapore.
The Singapore Turf Club reports:
New Zealand champion jockey Lisa Allpress is returning to Singapore after 11 years when she takes up a three-month visiting jockey's licence granted by the Singapore Turf Club for the period 1 September to 30 November 2013.
Allpress, 37, rode at Kranji and in Malaysia over short stints in 2001 and 2002 when she was then known by her maiden name Mumby (shortly before she married trainer Karl Allpress in 2002). In 105 rides, she scored four wins including her first career Group 1 success in the Lion City Cup aboard Classic Marco in 2002.
She then returned to New Zealand where she did not take long to establish herself among one of the leading jockeys there. In 16 years of riding, Allpress, who was apprenticed to Kranji trainer Stephen Gray's father Kevin, has ridden in excess of 1,000 winners, becoming the first female jockey in New Zealand (overall 25th) to reach the milestone of a ‘tonne' on 6 February 2013 aboard Kekova in a Listed race at Tauherenikau.
Allpress also won the New Zealand champion jockey title in the 2011-12 New Zealand season when she recorded 159 wins. She finished in the Top 5 at her previous three seasons and currently sits third on the premiership on 86 wins.
She has scored 60 wins at Group and Listed level, including 18 Group wins in the last two seasons. After her first Group 1 win in Singapore, she scored two more Group 1 wins in New Zealand, the Captain Cook Stakes aboard We Can Say It Now in December 2010 and the Makfi Challenge Stakes aboard Cox Plate winner Ocean Park in September 2012.
Besides Singapore and New Zealand, Allpress has also ridden in Australia, Macau, Malaysia and Japan. Allpress goes to scale at 47kg.