SPORTINGBET HAVE 'ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL JOCKEY' FAVORITE
THE Roy Higgins Medal for the most successful jockey over the three days of the Caulfield Spring Racing Carnival is any rider’s “race”.
Corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, sponsor of tomorrow’s important BMW Caulfield Cup lead-up race, the Sportingbet Herbert Power Stakes, has framed a six-jockey market for the medal, yet its favorite is the “any other individual jockey” option.
The Sportingbet market for the Roy Higgins Medal is:$2.40 Any individual jockey not quoted in the market
$4.20 Craig Newitt
$5 Craig Williams
$8.50 Dwayne Dunn
$9 Glen Boss
$11 Kerrin McEvoy
The Roy Higgins Medal, introduced by the Melbourne Racing Club last year, again will be presented to the most successful jockey over the three days of the carnival where riding winners will take priority in points scoring.
If two or more riders have an equal win tally after the last race on the final day then the number of second placegetters ridden will be used as a count-back. If a further split is necessary, third-placegetters will be taken into account and then, as a last factor, fourth-placegetters will come into the equation.
A dead-heat will be treated as a half-win (or half second or half third placing should a count-back be required). More than one Roy Higgins Medal would be awarded only in the unlikely situation of two or more riders finishing the carnival equal on wins, seconds, third and fourths.
The medal honours champion jockey Roy Higgins, MBE. Higgins was born in Koondrook on 5th June 1938 and, after starting his career at Deniliquin in 1953, he went on to ride more than 2300 winners, including almost every major race in Australia.
He retired in October 1983 after 106 Group One wins among 247 at Stakes level and still shares the record (with the late Billy Duncan) of 11 Victorian jockeys’ premierships.
Higgins also left his mark on the Caulfield Cup, with his 1969 win on Big Philou still being the only successful protest in the history of the race that was first run in 1879.
Four-time Caulfield Cup winning jockey, Damien Oliver, was the inaugural Roy Higgins medallist in 2008.
