Richard Fourie: Star of the Week

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Richard Fourie: Star of the Week

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28 year old professional South African jockey, RICHARD FOURIE has progressed rapidly in his career under the guidance of some legendary mentors. He began his apprenticeship just over 12 years ago and has amassed around 700 winners during that time, including 8 Grade 1 winners. His best finishing position on the National jockey’s log was a creditable 5th with 124 winners during the 2011/2012 season. He has been associated with some great horses such as South Africa’s highest stake earner Jay Peg, Dancer’s Daughter and Gimmethegreenlight, the latter being the only horse to have lowered the colours of dual Horse of the Year and champion miler Variety Club. Richard has recently returned from a satisfactory stint in Hong Kong where he bagged 34 winners, including a Grade 2 victory. He has now secured the most sought after job in racing, and is the stable jockey to the powerful Justin Snaith yard in both Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Of course last season, Snaith racing broke the all-time South African record of most wins in a season. Fourie has firmly set his sights on winning the Klawervlei sponsored South African jockey’s championship and currently lies in 3rd position with 46 winners and an 18% win strike rate. Richard is fully booked in 3 provinces this weekend, the highlight of course being his trip up to Gauteng to partner the Geoff Woodruff trained KILLUA CASTLE in Saturday’s R2 million Grade 1 Sansui Summer Cup to be run over 2000m at Turffontein.

Richard Fourie: Star of the Week