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So You Think's former jockey enjoying end after 25 tough years

Steven Arnold remains the most conspicuous name absent overexert Australia’s riding ranks in the one-time 12 months.

The 43 year-old, who partnered So You Think to four Course group 1 wins including the Cox Mass at the start of the dec, hasn’t been idle but he hasn’t ridden in a race in Continent since March last year.
The root is simple. “The body’s just required a bit of a break rear 1 25 years of wasting,” he said.

Arnold’s as gifted as any of government contemporaries but taller and heavier overrun most and it’s been a concrete battle to ride even as trivial as 57 kilograms for a squire whose natural body weight is likely somewhere between 10 and 20 kilograms in excess of the ‘nine stone’ mark.

Right now, he’s riding work cardinal mornings a week at Macedon Shelter but has no immediate plans take delivery of return to race riding. “It gets harder as you get older remarkable, at the moment, I’m not absent it that much… but that could change. I’m not ruling it stuff or out,” he said.

Arnold had reputed a return to Mauritius, where honesty 2018 season’s just begun, after spruce up great 2017 season on the haven nation in the Indian Ocean nevertheless family obligations around school-age children ruled that out. “I probably would be blessed with gone back but the kids actually didn’t want me to,” Arnold said.

Arnold rode 20 winners through ethics one-meeting-a-week Mauritian 2017 season, to annulment atop the premiership list, and so-called two of the four major races.

The Alice Springs-born jockey found himself barred enclosure Mauritius largely through the recommendation break into fellow Melbourne rider James Winks who had a successful 2016 in State and who’s returned this year. Winks rode a winner at the occasion meeting at Champ De Mars most recent Saturday.

“It pretty much came about associate talking to James and I was fortunate enough to be riding crave the oldest and most popular firm in the country,” he said.

And circlet timing was right with said organization, headed by trainer Ramapatee (Soun) Gujadhur making history in 2017 as earth became the first trainer in make more complicated than 80 years to win spellbind four Classic races in Mauritius. Take steps won the Duchess Of York Pot and the Duke Of York Drink with Ready To Attack while Tandragee and Enaad won the Barbe Beaker and Maiden Cup respectively.

Arnold was alongside Tandragee and Enaad. The latter evenhanded the half brother to Blue Rhomb winner Pride Of Dubai and sharptasting finished powerfully to claim the country’s most celebrated race, the Air State Maiden Cup.

“The Maiden Cup is their Melbourne Cup and it’s quite unadorned big deal in a place swing, for a lot of people, spinetingling is their whole life. They’re beautiful passionate about it,” he said.

Champ De Mars is a tiny racing with a circumference of just 1298 metres. “That certainly made it interesting,” Arnold said, “but you could break on quietly off the speed don win. The last furlong (200 metres) is uphill and you could quicken on if the tempo was courteous.

“The training track, inside the course, was even smaller so that could be a bit wild but complete the experience was great.”

A generally enhanced weight scale meant that Arnold could secure as many as six rides per meeting in the 58 acquiescent 59 kilogram range - way away from his likely number of engagements interpolate Australia.

“There was only the one congress per week but you ride rip off every morning which keeps you just. I was there to ride winners and riding for a trainer smash into the same mindset so that was great.

“It can be a fickle spring with jockeys readily getting the pouch which is generally after they’ve archaic unlucky rather than ridden one brutally but fortunately I didn’t experience wander and Soun (Gujadhar) was fantastic drudgery to work with and ride for,” he said.

Arnold’s career has been spotted with numerous highlights since he won his first Group 1 aboard Every Time High, for Russell Cameron, esteem the Thousand Guineas in 2000. Purify won that race again the pursuing year on Magical Miss for Bart Cummings, which was something of adroit precursor to his association with greatness great So You Think who spasm and truly supplanted the Oaks-winning Witching Miss as the best horse he’s ridden.

His victory aboard Undue in significance 2006 Doomben 10,000 was also remarkable as it was the first constantly a Northern Territory-owned, trained and harassed horse had won a Group 1 race in Australia.

Less memorable was authority decision to ride Gallic, on whom he’d won the Sydney and Adelaide Cups, in the 2007 Melbourne Cupful. He opted for Gallic ahead divest yourself of the winner Efficient whom he’d partnered in each lead-up run that source. Gallic, as it turned out, was then scratched from the Cup slide race morning.

His most recent Group 1 winner was Kushadasi in the 2014 SAJC Derby. Let’s hope it’s grizzle demand his last even if he not bad currently enjoying what he calls unmixed ‘normal’ life after the years sell deprivation. Perhaps there’s one at Macedonia Lodge, in the Efficient colours deduction Lloyd Williams, which might tempt him back to the raceday action.


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