New Year Honour 2021: Leading jockey Lisa Allpress recognised for services to racing industry
30 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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A totally mystified Lisa Allpress is also proud and humbled by her New Year Honour. Photo / Nicky Gray
Iain Hyndman is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleiain.hyndman@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
Whanganui s champion jockey Lisa Allpress is proud, humbled and totally mystified after being named in the New Year 2021 Honour List. The 45-year-old professional jockey has been named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to the racing industry.
Allpress is one of the country s most accomplished jockeys who, in 2013, was the first woman in New Zealand to achieve 1000 career wins. She now has more than 1620 wins, including around 100 international victories.
One-hundred-and-fifty-four people from a variety of sectors including education, sport, health, and science have been honoured.
Arch Jelley s reaction to being made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) sums up the athletics super coach to a tee. “I was totally surprised and wondered who on earth could have nominated an 98-year-old coach who hasn’t been coaching runners for the past few years, but is now coaching bridge players,” the ever modest Jelley told
Stuff.
Athletics super coach Arch Jelley, left, with former Olympic runner John Walker in 2009. Jelley, a former Athletics New Zealand president who coached Olympic gold medallist Sir John Walker, received the honour for services to athletics and bridge.
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Talented filly Key will be ridden by Lisa Allpress in Saturdayâs group 3 Lawnmaster Eulogy Stakes at Awapuni.
RACING: In-form jockey Lisa Allpress has a good handle on the leading contenders in the group 3 Lawnmaster Eulogy Stakes (1600 metres) at Awapuni, Palmerston North, on Saturday, where she will ride last-start group 3 Wellington Stakes (1600m) runner-up Key. Allpress guided the Stephen Marsh-trained Zee Falls to success at Ōtaki that day, but was a keen observer of Key’s performance, knowing the Gary Harding-raced Exceed And Excel filly well from riding her in her early jump outs and a trial for trainers Johno Benner and Hollie Wynyard.