“Shane Dye” won two Sydney Jockeys Premierships in the 1990-91 and 1996-97 seasons and rode over 2,000 career winners. In his time as a jockey “Shane” rode “93 Group 1 winners” Dye won the Melb; Cup on “Tawriffic” in 1989 in then-record time, and won four consecutive Golden Slippers from 1989 to 1992. He also won the Cox Plate on “Octagonal” in 1995.

In “1940-41 John “Jack” Thompson, “The Professor” became the first apprentice to win a senior jockeys' premiership in Sydney”, riding 106 winners. Four times he was leading apprentice, and five times the leading senior jockey.Thompson's last winner came at the age of 62 at Wyong in 1985. “In his long career he had ridden close to 3,000 winners, including more than 140 feature races and 41 at Group 1”.

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