McMurray has turned heads in Sydney. Now for a first stakes win
A first city-level ride, anywhere, then a win at Scone's standalone card, followed by a maiden metro double in his first trip to Canterbury on Wednesday, which took him past 100 career victories in just over a year in the saddle.
Next is a debut at Rosehill on Saturday, and a first chance at stakes level.
With most of the senior Sydney jockeys at Eagle Farm on Saturday, McMurray has got the job on Greg Hickman-trained Private Legacy in the listed Lord Mayor's Cup (2000m), where he is unable to use his three-kilogram claim.
The feature race booking is one of possibly nine rides on the 10-race program for McMurray, who is apprenticed to Gold Coast trainer Adam Campton but is now based at Randwick with Michael Freedman on a three-month loan.
He is hoping to make a big enough impression to extend his stay and push for the Sydney apprentices' premiership next season.
And he knows an early stakes win will go a long way to building even more support from trainers and owners in town.
Private Legacy, a $5.50 Sportsbet chance on Thursday, was a last-start winner of the listed Centaurea Stakes (2017m) for fillies and mares at Morphettville and has drawn gate one for Saturday.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
- Sydney Morning Herald
McEvoy hoping Skyhook steals show and star duo hit the track
Kerrin McEvoy is excited about the spring prospects of his rides in and possibly between races at Rosehill on Saturday. McEvoy has the job on stakes winner Skyhook ($3.90 Sportsbet) in the listed Rosebud (1100m) and unbeaten Peter Snowden-trained mare Amreekiyah ($3.60) a race earlier. The 44-year-old is also down to pilot Chris Waller-trained stars Fangirl and Autumn Glow in 1000m exhibition gallops between races early in the day if track conditions are suitable. The surface was a heavy 10 on Friday. Aeliana (Jason Collett), Via Sistina (James McDonald) and Lady Shenandoah (McDonald) were also set to gallop ahead of potential returns next week at Randwick on Winx Stakes day. McEvoy won the Winx Stakes, the first group 1 of the season, last year with Via Sistina, and he was eyeing another shot at the race, this time with Fangirl. 'I've been lucky enough to pick up some nice ones next week,' McEvoy said. 'Memo is going to run, and I think at this stage, if Fangirl runs, I might be on her. Possibly Autumn Glow as well, if she runs in the Show County. That one is weight-related with James.' The 84-time group 1 winner is hoping Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained Skyhook could highlight his spring credentials in the first feature for three-year-olds.
The Age
4 days ago
- The Age
McEvoy hoping Skyhook steals show and star duo hit the track
Kerrin McEvoy is excited about the spring prospects of his rides in and possibly between races at Rosehill on Saturday. McEvoy has the job on stakes winner Skyhook ($3.90 Sportsbet) in the listed Rosebud (1100m) and unbeaten Peter Snowden-trained mare Amreekiyah ($3.60) a race earlier. The 44-year-old is also down to pilot Chris Waller-trained stars Fangirl and Autumn Glow in 1000m exhibition gallops between races early in the day if track conditions are suitable. The surface was a heavy 10 on Friday. Aeliana (Jason Collett), Via Sistina (James McDonald) and Lady Shenandoah (McDonald) were also set to gallop ahead of potential returns next week at Randwick on Winx Stakes day. McEvoy won the Winx Stakes, the first group 1 of the season, last year with Via Sistina, and he was eyeing another shot at the race, this time with Fangirl. 'I've been lucky enough to pick up some nice ones next week,' McEvoy said. 'Memo is going to run, and I think at this stage, if Fangirl runs, I might be on her. Possibly Autumn Glow as well, if she runs in the Show County. That one is weight-related with James.' The 84-time group 1 winner is hoping Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou-trained Skyhook could highlight his spring credentials in the first feature for three-year-olds.
The Advertiser
6 days ago
- The Advertiser
A predatory industry is targeting our kids and the government is staying silent
The Victorian Coroner's hearing into the tragic suicide of 22-year-old Kyle Hudson is set to shine a spotlight on the activities of bookmaker Sportsbet. Kyle took his life shortly after losing two bets worth more than $6000. The hearing is set to probe the actions of SportsBet and also the banks from which Kyle drew out large sums of money for betting. The figures show sports betting is exploding among young men - growing at up to 40 per cent annually. And troublingly, figures show that up to 600,000 underage teenagers (12-17 years old) are gambling $18 million annually. Sports and Communications Minister, Anika Wells, when adding YouTube to the social media ban for under 16 year olds, said she was intent on protecting people not platforms. She is the minister now in charge of responding to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry recommendations to ban gambling ads and gambling incentives. But two years on from Murphy's recommendations, we still have no government response to Murphy's 31 recommendations or any reform to protect children being groomed by gambling ads. Recently, I spoke to a group of leaders aged 18-20 at a university in Melbourne. Gambling came up in my speech. After the event, a young man dressed in a suit told me that he had been at an ex-school friend's funeral that day. His friend took his life after losing all his savings in sports betting. They had started gambling at school and he said all his friends, all underage, were gambling. For boys not to be gambling and talking about their wins at school was so uncool - such is the capture of gambling and sport. And so, friendship for young men and being cool now revolved around gambling. At the same event, another student spoke to me about his wrestling with gambling. I asked this 20-year-old to explain why he had got into this. Again, he said all my school friends are gambling. You get an account TAB account by using an older sibling's ID - such as a driver's license or passport and then you are away. Then you deposit money in an account. Curiously, you're immediately trapped as you cannot withdraw the money without physically presenting at a TAB to withdraw it, which you never risk. If you do not bet for a day, then a $50 free bonus lands in your account, so you try a number of apps and get the bonuses, and soon you have lost all track of your real losses. These kids bet on everything and everywhere. Races, Lithuanian basketball, that they watch in the early hours of the morning. His friend lost $2000 betting on a Lithuanian basketball game. I said, "how do you watch Lithuanian basketball", and he said, "the betting companies drop the game on your tablet". So, it is a "gift" of the bookmakers and as you watch bonuses and incentives pop up. Gambling companies effectively own the game and anyone who has watched AFL or NRL would say it is the same of our sports. If you are losing, no one from the company checks. If you are winning, the sports betting trader has to manually check your winnings before paying out. If you are losing, you get bonus incentives. I am worried that the bookies who now effectively own the AFL and NRL will support the government's social media ban and say now we can advertise and continue our booming business - both ads and incentives. And it will be worse as age verification for under 16s will not be a license or passport but a much lower bar. Yes, we need to put people before platforms and that includes the AFL and NRL apps where every game has the odds every week and grooms our children. We cannot rely on bookmakers to reduce gambling harm. READ MORE: We should expect the sporting codes - including the AFL and the NRL - to do much more to reduce the promotion of advertising that now envelops the game. But given the fat profit these codes make on the backs of their supporters such action is unlikely. So, it turns to the federal government to act to protect our kids and also the scores of young men and women who are being remorselessly targeted by a predatory industry. Every day we delay is not only leading to incredible financial hardship, it is leading to social devastation. It is destroying lives. Gambling is not just a gaming issue, it is a public health crisis that is leading to extraordinary suffering and social harm. We can't wait any longer for a considered and significant response to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry by this government. The Victorian Coroner's hearing into the tragic suicide of 22-year-old Kyle Hudson is set to shine a spotlight on the activities of bookmaker Sportsbet. Kyle took his life shortly after losing two bets worth more than $6000. The hearing is set to probe the actions of SportsBet and also the banks from which Kyle drew out large sums of money for betting. The figures show sports betting is exploding among young men - growing at up to 40 per cent annually. And troublingly, figures show that up to 600,000 underage teenagers (12-17 years old) are gambling $18 million annually. Sports and Communications Minister, Anika Wells, when adding YouTube to the social media ban for under 16 year olds, said she was intent on protecting people not platforms. She is the minister now in charge of responding to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry recommendations to ban gambling ads and gambling incentives. But two years on from Murphy's recommendations, we still have no government response to Murphy's 31 recommendations or any reform to protect children being groomed by gambling ads. Recently, I spoke to a group of leaders aged 18-20 at a university in Melbourne. Gambling came up in my speech. After the event, a young man dressed in a suit told me that he had been at an ex-school friend's funeral that day. His friend took his life after losing all his savings in sports betting. They had started gambling at school and he said all his friends, all underage, were gambling. For boys not to be gambling and talking about their wins at school was so uncool - such is the capture of gambling and sport. And so, friendship for young men and being cool now revolved around gambling. At the same event, another student spoke to me about his wrestling with gambling. I asked this 20-year-old to explain why he had got into this. Again, he said all my school friends are gambling. You get an account TAB account by using an older sibling's ID - such as a driver's license or passport and then you are away. Then you deposit money in an account. Curiously, you're immediately trapped as you cannot withdraw the money without physically presenting at a TAB to withdraw it, which you never risk. If you do not bet for a day, then a $50 free bonus lands in your account, so you try a number of apps and get the bonuses, and soon you have lost all track of your real losses. These kids bet on everything and everywhere. Races, Lithuanian basketball, that they watch in the early hours of the morning. His friend lost $2000 betting on a Lithuanian basketball game. I said, "how do you watch Lithuanian basketball", and he said, "the betting companies drop the game on your tablet". So, it is a "gift" of the bookmakers and as you watch bonuses and incentives pop up. Gambling companies effectively own the game and anyone who has watched AFL or NRL would say it is the same of our sports. If you are losing, no one from the company checks. If you are winning, the sports betting trader has to manually check your winnings before paying out. If you are losing, you get bonus incentives. I am worried that the bookies who now effectively own the AFL and NRL will support the government's social media ban and say now we can advertise and continue our booming business - both ads and incentives. And it will be worse as age verification for under 16s will not be a license or passport but a much lower bar. Yes, we need to put people before platforms and that includes the AFL and NRL apps where every game has the odds every week and grooms our children. We cannot rely on bookmakers to reduce gambling harm. READ MORE: We should expect the sporting codes - including the AFL and the NRL - to do much more to reduce the promotion of advertising that now envelops the game. But given the fat profit these codes make on the backs of their supporters such action is unlikely. So, it turns to the federal government to act to protect our kids and also the scores of young men and women who are being remorselessly targeted by a predatory industry. Every day we delay is not only leading to incredible financial hardship, it is leading to social devastation. It is destroying lives. Gambling is not just a gaming issue, it is a public health crisis that is leading to extraordinary suffering and social harm. We can't wait any longer for a considered and significant response to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry by this government. The Victorian Coroner's hearing into the tragic suicide of 22-year-old Kyle Hudson is set to shine a spotlight on the activities of bookmaker Sportsbet. Kyle took his life shortly after losing two bets worth more than $6000. The hearing is set to probe the actions of SportsBet and also the banks from which Kyle drew out large sums of money for betting. The figures show sports betting is exploding among young men - growing at up to 40 per cent annually. And troublingly, figures show that up to 600,000 underage teenagers (12-17 years old) are gambling $18 million annually. Sports and Communications Minister, Anika Wells, when adding YouTube to the social media ban for under 16 year olds, said she was intent on protecting people not platforms. She is the minister now in charge of responding to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry recommendations to ban gambling ads and gambling incentives. But two years on from Murphy's recommendations, we still have no government response to Murphy's 31 recommendations or any reform to protect children being groomed by gambling ads. Recently, I spoke to a group of leaders aged 18-20 at a university in Melbourne. Gambling came up in my speech. After the event, a young man dressed in a suit told me that he had been at an ex-school friend's funeral that day. His friend took his life after losing all his savings in sports betting. They had started gambling at school and he said all his friends, all underage, were gambling. For boys not to be gambling and talking about their wins at school was so uncool - such is the capture of gambling and sport. And so, friendship for young men and being cool now revolved around gambling. At the same event, another student spoke to me about his wrestling with gambling. I asked this 20-year-old to explain why he had got into this. Again, he said all my school friends are gambling. You get an account TAB account by using an older sibling's ID - such as a driver's license or passport and then you are away. Then you deposit money in an account. Curiously, you're immediately trapped as you cannot withdraw the money without physically presenting at a TAB to withdraw it, which you never risk. If you do not bet for a day, then a $50 free bonus lands in your account, so you try a number of apps and get the bonuses, and soon you have lost all track of your real losses. These kids bet on everything and everywhere. Races, Lithuanian basketball, that they watch in the early hours of the morning. His friend lost $2000 betting on a Lithuanian basketball game. I said, "how do you watch Lithuanian basketball", and he said, "the betting companies drop the game on your tablet". So, it is a "gift" of the bookmakers and as you watch bonuses and incentives pop up. Gambling companies effectively own the game and anyone who has watched AFL or NRL would say it is the same of our sports. If you are losing, no one from the company checks. If you are winning, the sports betting trader has to manually check your winnings before paying out. If you are losing, you get bonus incentives. I am worried that the bookies who now effectively own the AFL and NRL will support the government's social media ban and say now we can advertise and continue our booming business - both ads and incentives. And it will be worse as age verification for under 16s will not be a license or passport but a much lower bar. Yes, we need to put people before platforms and that includes the AFL and NRL apps where every game has the odds every week and grooms our children. We cannot rely on bookmakers to reduce gambling harm. READ MORE: We should expect the sporting codes - including the AFL and the NRL - to do much more to reduce the promotion of advertising that now envelops the game. But given the fat profit these codes make on the backs of their supporters such action is unlikely. So, it turns to the federal government to act to protect our kids and also the scores of young men and women who are being remorselessly targeted by a predatory industry. Every day we delay is not only leading to incredible financial hardship, it is leading to social devastation. It is destroying lives. Gambling is not just a gaming issue, it is a public health crisis that is leading to extraordinary suffering and social harm. We can't wait any longer for a considered and significant response to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry by this government. The Victorian Coroner's hearing into the tragic suicide of 22-year-old Kyle Hudson is set to shine a spotlight on the activities of bookmaker Sportsbet. Kyle took his life shortly after losing two bets worth more than $6000. The hearing is set to probe the actions of SportsBet and also the banks from which Kyle drew out large sums of money for betting. The figures show sports betting is exploding among young men - growing at up to 40 per cent annually. And troublingly, figures show that up to 600,000 underage teenagers (12-17 years old) are gambling $18 million annually. Sports and Communications Minister, Anika Wells, when adding YouTube to the social media ban for under 16 year olds, said she was intent on protecting people not platforms. She is the minister now in charge of responding to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry recommendations to ban gambling ads and gambling incentives. But two years on from Murphy's recommendations, we still have no government response to Murphy's 31 recommendations or any reform to protect children being groomed by gambling ads. Recently, I spoke to a group of leaders aged 18-20 at a university in Melbourne. Gambling came up in my speech. After the event, a young man dressed in a suit told me that he had been at an ex-school friend's funeral that day. His friend took his life after losing all his savings in sports betting. They had started gambling at school and he said all his friends, all underage, were gambling. For boys not to be gambling and talking about their wins at school was so uncool - such is the capture of gambling and sport. And so, friendship for young men and being cool now revolved around gambling. At the same event, another student spoke to me about his wrestling with gambling. I asked this 20-year-old to explain why he had got into this. Again, he said all my school friends are gambling. You get an account TAB account by using an older sibling's ID - such as a driver's license or passport and then you are away. Then you deposit money in an account. Curiously, you're immediately trapped as you cannot withdraw the money without physically presenting at a TAB to withdraw it, which you never risk. If you do not bet for a day, then a $50 free bonus lands in your account, so you try a number of apps and get the bonuses, and soon you have lost all track of your real losses. These kids bet on everything and everywhere. Races, Lithuanian basketball, that they watch in the early hours of the morning. His friend lost $2000 betting on a Lithuanian basketball game. I said, "how do you watch Lithuanian basketball", and he said, "the betting companies drop the game on your tablet". So, it is a "gift" of the bookmakers and as you watch bonuses and incentives pop up. Gambling companies effectively own the game and anyone who has watched AFL or NRL would say it is the same of our sports. If you are losing, no one from the company checks. If you are winning, the sports betting trader has to manually check your winnings before paying out. If you are losing, you get bonus incentives. I am worried that the bookies who now effectively own the AFL and NRL will support the government's social media ban and say now we can advertise and continue our booming business - both ads and incentives. And it will be worse as age verification for under 16s will not be a license or passport but a much lower bar. Yes, we need to put people before platforms and that includes the AFL and NRL apps where every game has the odds every week and grooms our children. We cannot rely on bookmakers to reduce gambling harm. READ MORE: We should expect the sporting codes - including the AFL and the NRL - to do much more to reduce the promotion of advertising that now envelops the game. But given the fat profit these codes make on the backs of their supporters such action is unlikely. So, it turns to the federal government to act to protect our kids and also the scores of young men and women who are being remorselessly targeted by a predatory industry. Every day we delay is not only leading to incredible financial hardship, it is leading to social devastation. It is destroying lives. Gambling is not just a gaming issue, it is a public health crisis that is leading to extraordinary suffering and social harm. We can't wait any longer for a considered and significant response to the Murphy parliamentary inquiry by this government.
