EMILY LANG'S BRIGHT START TO THE NEW SEASON

By Graham Potter | Sunday, August 4, 2024

Apprentice Emily Lang started off the new metropolitan season with a win on Vodka Martini at Doomben on Saturday ... and the 2023/24 Provincial Apprentice Jockey Premiership winner is looking forward to her first full season in town, having recently made the move from the then Steven O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted training partnership, a stable experience which served her so well in terms of opportunity and development, to join the yard of eleven times Metropolitan Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan.

“Tony asked me if I wanted to come across there and do my metro time there,” explained Lang.

“It obviously was a hard thing to do because I’ve got such a good relationship with Steven and Matt. They have done so much for me, but if I want to be on the same sort of trajectory that Angela Jones has gone on, I don’t think that is something to turn down.”

The example used by Lang just goes to show that there are trailblazers for every generation.

Angela Jones, who grew and grew in stature when aligned with the Gollan stable, rode 79 winners during the 2022/23 season, a total which would have given her the Brisbane Jockeys’ Premiership in every one of the four seasons immediately prior to the 2023/24 campaign.

Jones has continued to flourish, again with solid support from the Gollan stable, again topping fifty winners in the 2023/24 season when finishing fourth in the Jockeys’ Premiership.

So, Jones has set a very high standard indeed, but Lang has every right to take aim at a similar goal and career trajectory having already established her strong credentials with her clearcut win in the Provincial Premiership standing which gives her as solid a grounding as any from which to launch into this new season’s challenge.

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