Phillips Walsh on 107
PA Levin The leading jockeys, Gary Phillips and David Walsh, are still locked in the lead for the jockeys’ premiership after the Otaki Maori Racing Club’s meeting yesterday. Phillips got off to a flying start with two early winners but Walsh came back to win the eighth and 10th events. Their total for the season so far is 107 each. However, for Phillips it was not altogether a trouble-free day as he was fined $5O by the judiciary committee for failing to ride the seventh placegetter, Justine Renee, out to the finish of the Haruatai Maiden. The veteran jockey, Bill Skelton, suffered minor neck and leg injuries when his monnt, Ebony Chant, threw him over the outside running rail on the way to the start in The Stewards’ Handicap. As a consequence he was advised to forgo all other riding engagements. Ebony Chant was a late scratching from the event
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