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On December 7 at Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Jockey Club announced that Jamie Kah and Jye McNeil would represent Australia in the Longines International Jockeys' Championship.
On Saturday, the son of Savabeel will be ridden by the world's best jockey in the Gr.1 Singapore Gold Cup at Kranji, where he will be hoping to redeem himself following a close loss in the Gr.1 Queen Elizabeth Cup.
Sacred Croix came on strong in the stretch, losing only by a narrow margin. Trainer Jerome Tan is still worried about Sacred Croix getting the 2000m trip of Gold Cup on Saturday (he has been unsuccessful in prior runs over the distance), despite that clear promising effort, but he is hoping that Kah can play a part in making it happen.
Sacred Croix, who has been trained by Mark Walker since 2019, will be making his fourth effort at the Singapore Gold Cup.
You have to go all the way back to 2014 to find Kah's three-week stay in Singapore as the Dux of the South Australian Apprentice Academy, during which she rode at Kranji for the first time.
Then she'll be off to Hong Kong for the International Jockey's Championship at Happy Valley, where she'll go up against some of the best riders in the world, including James McDonald, her old training partner from New Zealand, and Zac Purton, Ryan Moore, Tom Marquand, Holly Doyle, Yuka Kawada, and Mickael Barzalona, to name a few.