CAMPTON AND CHAVEZ TAKE 2: WATCH THIS SPACE!
By Graham Potter | Friday, December 1, 2023
He’s back ... and riding winners!
There is no big news in the riding winners part of that statement, as Elione Chavez arrived back on the Gold Coast with the Jockey Championship in Sweden firmly in his grasp (his seventh Premiership title in Sweden) with his season’s honour roll including a big race win in the Stockholm Cup, where he kept Frankie Dettori back in third place ... making that a win particular thrill for the talented rider.
That winning run in Sweden came when Chavez returned to that racing precinct at the end of March ... eight months ago ... after completing his first stint at the Gold Coast, a three-and-a-half month period centred on working for the Adam Campton stable, in which he rode a total of fourteen winners.
Campton immediately recognised the value of having a rider of Chavez’s international experience in the stable ... the Brazilian has ridden in Sweden, Singapore, Dubai, the USA, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Germany Norway and Australia ... and he wanted Chavez to stay, but a very good and understandable reason got in the way of Chavez extending his first working visit to Australia ... the rider wanted to spend time with his then nine-year-old son who lived with his ex-wife in Sweden.
Campton, while fully understanding that dynamic, wasn’t about to let things end there though. Before Chavez returned to Sweden both sides made an informal commitment to link up again, if possible, some time in the future.
Now, eight months later, that time has arrived and the Campton/Chavez team is back in business at the Gold Coast. Read more ...
CAMPTON AND CHAVEZ TAKE 2: WATCH THIS SPACE!
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