PREMIERSHIP WINNERS STRUT THEIR STUFF

By Graham Potter | Saturday, July 18, 2026

The fact that three metropolitan meetings remain until the end of the current racing season is irrelevant as far as the outcome of the Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership and the Brisbane Apprentice Jockey’s Premiership is concerned … with those titles long-since decided, and Ben Thompson and apprentice Jace McMurray franked their superior standing in that regard with both of these leading riders winning four races apiece at Doomben on Saturday.

Thompson leads the Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership with 94.5 winners, 22.5 winners clear of Ryan Maloney.

The Premiership is a first for Thompson and his results on Saturday were significant in that it took him to 94.5 metropolitan winners for the season, eclipsing his previous personal best return in terms of metropolitan winners of the 93 winners he rode in the 2022/23 season in which he finished second behind Jimmy Orman in the Premiership.

The remaining three metropolitan meetings offers Thompson the chance to push on towards one hundred metropolitan wins for the season … a feat which has only been achieved by Jimmy Orman (twice), Jeffrey Lloyd (twice) and Chris Munce in the last fifteen years.

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