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.