It’s not often a jockey returns to the winners enclosure on the most celebrated day in the Australian racing year and says that riding the winner of one of the country’s most-storied flat races is like booting home a winner at the home of jumping, England’s Cheltenham Festival.
But Irishman Johnny Allen is no ordinary Derby winning jockey just as Darren Weir, who saddled the winner in question, Extra Brut, is no ordinary trainer.
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