Secret Jockey Business With Ladbrokes Cox Plate Winning Jockey John Allen They race in Victoria every day of the week and New South Wales but countrywide on a Saturday, thered be the bones of 20 meetings. Jockey John Allen has had his Warrnambool experience soured after stewards suspended him for 20 meetings for reckless riding aboard Warrnambool Cup runner-up Heart Of Puissance. But thats how it happened. Gamble responsibly. SEE SPORT DIFFERENTLY Get closer to the stories that matter with exclusive analysis, insight and debate in The42 Membership. In fact, he has placed in a third of the 100 or so Group 1s in which he has ridden, starting with Howard Be Thy Name in the South Australian Derby in 2016. On the Monday after the Cox Plate, he got into the trusty, dusty VW Passat that has taken him to every professional racetrack in the state, and drove to St Arnaud to ride in a dozen jump outs. One of them asked the question while giving the Irishman a lift to the races before he bought his own car. He heads to other states on a handful of occasions over the course of a year to race, those big carnival meetings in Sydney and Brisbane and Adelaide. Moreira, Allan and another uncannily balanced jockey, Jamie Kah, are about as different as three people can be except in the saddle. "It was a bit of a gamble to go to Adelaide. The 35-year-old weighed everything up, made his calculations and went for it. When I was a jumps jockey I was always light enough that I never really had to watch it. "I obviously rode a lot for Darren, but I'll just have to get myself out there a bit more," said Allen, who will miss Saturday's Orr Stakes meeting and return from a careless riding suspension next week. He credits the education he received there as being pivotal and later he joined trainer Joe Crowley at Piltown in Kilkenny in November 2002. OBrien could have been a Mafia defence lawyer but given the stewards form, he was kicking with the breeze. As Crowley whittled back his stable before retiring, the loyal Allen stayed busy riding work for his boss but got fewer good race rides. He doesnt recall much about the trip Down Under except riding in a steeplechase at Moonee Valley in the pouring rain, the sort of weather he thought hed left behind.

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