MATT Cumani believes his last-start Flemington winner One More Try is a very good horse in the making, but concedes she will need a peach of a ride from Linda Meech to win the $350,000 Ballarat Cup. She deserved this opportunity. Former Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne has slammed an owner over his shock decision to cut a female jockey.Melbourne Cup Day is a statement calendar date, but not everything is all poise and graceful at the carnival.Michelle Payne goes off on owner of Thought of That.Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne has weighed in on an owner’s decision to dump Linda Meech from a Victorian Derby contender only days out from the race.Set to be run on Saturday afternoon, Meech was down to ride one of the favourites, Thought of That, but owner Brae Sokolski made the call to replace Meech with jockey Mark Zahra.Meech had ridden the colt and second favourite in the Derby in each of its last two races but was advised of the decision on Tuesday morning.It was a call that left Payne infuriated and she didn’t hold back when addressing the decision on social media.In a since deleted tweet, Payne took aim at Sokolski.“Not for the public to decide but the public can recognise you as a pig,” Payne wrote.Meech won’t be riding in the Victorian Derby on Saturday.Her comment was in reply to Sokolski’s statement defending the decision to have Zahra ride the horse instead of Meech.“I know it’s going to be unpopular and I know I’m probably getting lambasted on Twitter but so be it,” Sokolski said.“I make the decision, it’s the right decision for the horse and the owners, it’s not a decision for the public.”This isn’t the first time Payne has taken aim at the racing industry after she blasted the “chauvinistic” nature following her historic 2015 Melbourne Cup victory on longshot Prince of Penzance.“It’s such a chauvinistic sport, a lot of the owners wanted to kick me off. Everyone else can get stuffed (who) think women aren’t good enough,” she said after the race.Jockey Linda Meech rides Thought of That to victory in race 4, the Ladbrokes Classic, during the Stella Artois Caulfield Cup Day at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Saturday, October 19, 2019. The move looks set to pay off with Zephyron after the gelding has had three runs in Sydney leading up to this. It was only the fourth time Planet Voyage had missed a place in 18 starts and his Moonee Valley record reads a win, a second and a third from three starts, including a win and a second from two starts over the 1000-metre trip.
Rode Though Of That beautifully last two starts, yet replaced by Mark Zahra for Saturday's VRC Derby. Zephyron certainly has an outstanding pedigree, being by Zabeel from the Danehill mare Diamond Like, who is a descendant of the celebrated broodmare Eight Carat. Rode Though Of That beautifully last two starts, yet replaced by Mark Zahra for Saturday's VRC Derby. (AAP Image/Michael Dodge) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLYDespite deleting the tweet labelling Sokolski “a pig”, Payne continued to stick up for Meech and labelled the decision “heartbreaking” in follow up tweets.“One of the most ruthless decisions made. From a perfect barrier he looks a great winning chance.Linda Meech is flying high, and not only in her boyfriend's helicopter which regularly delivers her to provincial tracks. I’ve shared a jockeys room with Linda for nearly 20 years. Leading Victorian jockey Linda Meech makes a rare "homecoming" appearance at Eagle Farm with two key rides. When a Hawkes-trained horse is taken along quietly, as is the case with Zephyron, a five-year-old who has had only nine starts, it's a sure bet that the stable has a high opinion of him and keen to give the horse plenty of time to mature. On firm ground here, she is back from a spell and seems to be at generous each-way odds in fixed markets.Planet Voyage is one of the most consistent sprinters in Victoria and his first-up fifth at Flemington on Oaks day when he finished 1½ lengths behind Lankan Rupee and Snitzerland down the straight at Flemington reads as excellent form for this race.
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