Apprentice Race Series

The RMBL Investments Rising Stars series are apprentice-only races across Victoria, from August 2023 through to the finale in July 2024.

Points are awarded for top five placings in legs of the series as follows: first – 12, second – 6, third – 4, fourth – 2, fifth – 1.

Leaderboard as of 25 March 2024

1. Luke Cartwright 46
2. Alysha Warren 40
3. Dakotah Keane 36
4. Thomas Prebble 32 
5. Sheridan Clarke 26

The Rising Stars series are apprentice-only races across Victoria, from August 2022 through to the finale in July 2023.

Points are awarded for top five placings in legs of the series as follows: first – 12, second – 6, third – 4, fourth – 2, fifth – 1.

Congratulations to Celine Gaudray who won the 2022/23 RMBL Investments Rising Stars Series!

Celine finished the series on 64 points, 7 points clear of Matt Chadwick (57), with Thomas Stockdale (48) third.

The Rising Stars series are apprentice-only races across Victoria, from August 2021 through to the finale in July 2022.

Points are awarded for top five placings in legs of the series as follows: first – 12, second – 6, third – 4, fourth – 2, fifth – 1. 

The rider who accumulates the most points wins a $4,000 retail voucher and the Rising Stars Trophy, second place takes home a $2,000 retail voucher and third place a $1,000 retail voucher. $100 will be awarded to the winner of each race series, this still applies to winners of a divided race.    

Date	Venue	Winners
Thursday 12 August	Sale	Mikaela Lawrence
Thursday 26 August	Echuca	Tatum Bull
Tuesday 14 September	Wangaratta	Tianni Chapman
Tuesday 28 September	Kilmore	Heidi Gillie
Monday 12 October	Kyneton	Tom Stockdale
Thursday 21 October	Ballarat	Kiran Quilty
Thursday 18 November	Mornington	Kiran Quilty
Thursday 25 November	Bendigo	Hannah Edgley
Thursday 9 December	Warrnambool	Laura Lafferty
Thursday 21 December	Geelong	Sheridan Clarke
Tuesday 11 January	Kilmore	Laura Lafferty
Tuesday 18 January	Moe	Matt Cartwright
Wednesday 2 February	Stony Creek	Matt Cartwright
Tuesday, 8 February	Ballarat	Matt Cartwirght
Tuesday, 1 March	Bendigo	Hannah Edgley
Tuesday, 29 March	Benalla	Laura Lafferty
Tuesday, 5 April	Ballarat	Alana Kelly
Tuesday, 12 April	Benalla	Logan McNeil
Monday, 2 May	Werribee	Will Price
Tuesday, 24 May	Mornington	Matt Cartwright
Monday, 13 June	Geelong	Laura Lafferty
Thursday, 23 June	Moe	Matthew Chadwick
Thursday, 7 July	Cranbourne	Hannah Edgley


Leaderboard as of 7 July 2022


1. Matt Cartwright 62
2. Hannah Edgley 58
3. Laura Lafferty 53
4. Mikaela Lawrence 34
5. Will Price 33

The Rising Stars series takes in 24 apprentice-only races across Victoria, from August 2020 through to the finale in July 2021.

Points are awarded for top five placings in legs of the series as follows: first – 12, second – 6, third – 4, fourth – 2, fifth – 1. 

The rider who accumulates the most points wins a $4,000 retail voucher and the Rising Stars Trophy, second place takes home a $2,000 retail voucher and third place a $1,000 retail voucher. $100 will be awarded to the winner of each race series, this still applies to winners of a divided race.    

Date	Venue	Winners
Thursday 13 August	Sale	Thomas Stockdale
Thursday 27 August	Mornington	Teo Nugent
Monday 7 September	Wangaratta	Harry Grace
Tuesday 22 September	Kyneton	Tayla Childs
Monday 5 October	Seymour
Monday 19 October	Mornington	Campbell Rawiller
Tuesday 17 November	Benalla	Tahlia Hope
Monday 23 November	Geelong	Teo Nugent
Thursday 10 December	Seymour	Liam Riordan
Thursday 17 December	Warrnambool	Laura Lafferty
Tuesday 12 January	Kilmore	Celine Gaudray
Friday 29 January	Werribee	Kiran Quilty
Tuesday 2 February	Stony Creek	Lewis German
Tuesday 23 February	Bendigo	Thomas Stockdale
Tuesday 9 March	Ballarat	Thomas Stockdale
Tuesday 23 March	Benalla
Tuesday 13 April	Geelong	Lachlan King
Thursday 29 April	Wangaratta	Lachlan Neindorf
Tuesday 11 May	Mornington	Teo Nugent
Tuesday 18 May	Moe	Lewis German
Thursday 3 June	Wangaratta	Alexandra Bryan
Thursday 10 June	Ballarat	Madison Lloyd
Thursday 24 June	Moe	Tianni Chapman
Thursday 8 July	Cranbourne	Josh Richards
FINAL: Saturday 17 July	Flemington


Leader board as of 8 July 2021


1. Teo Nugent 65

2. Thomas Stockdale 48

3. Lewis German 44

4. Campbell Rawiller 36

5.Madison Lloyd 30

The National Apprentice Race Series (NARS) 2019, is Australia’s premier apprentice-only race series and showcases the riding talents of the country’s most exciting young jockeys.

First conducted in 2008, the Series draws together apprentices from across Australia to represent their state in a collection of races in six states and territories.
Points are awarded for the top five placings in each leg of the series as follows; first – 7, second – 5, third – 3, fourth – 2 and fifth – 1, with the state that accumulates the most points crowned the winner. Victoria successfully took out the series in 2018 with a last race victory to Jessica Eaton in the Western Australian heat.

Previous winners

2008/09 South Australia
2009/10 Victoria
2011 South Australia
2012 South Australia
2013 New South Wales
2014 South Australia
2015 South Australia
2016 Western Australia
2017 Western Australia
2018 Victoria

NARS 2019 Leaderboard

 

 

 

 

2019/20 Final Leaderboard

1. Campbell Rawiller 82
2. Teo Nugent 72
3. Lewis German 53
4. Michael Poy 43
5. Liam Riordan 35
6. Will Price 28
6. Harry Grace 28

 

 

 

The Asian Young Guns Challenge concept was developed in 2009 by the Victoria Racing Club (VRC).
The challenge aims to pair the leading apprentice jockeys from Asia-Pacific together and allow them to compete against each other to further strengthen international relationships with Asian-based race clubs and to provide a cultural exchange between racing’s newest and most talented brigade of apprentice jockeys.

It provides young talented riders with the opportunity to compete outside of their own country and to further develop their skills, relationships and experience on the world stage, and at world class venues. In the Asian Young Guns Series we have seen Apprentice Jockeys from countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia compete for the coveted award. Jye McNeil was selected to represent Racing Victoria in 2014.

In 2014, Harry Coffey was invited by the Australian Racing Board (ARB) to represent Australia in the 14th Macau Apprentice Invitation Races in November.

The series featured 14 riders from 14 different countries and comprised of five races across two days. After collecting 20 points in the opening race of the series aboard China Cheers on Friday, Harry then finished runner-up, third, fourth and sixth from his remaining rides throughout the series to take the title.

He finished on 47 points, ahead of Japanese apprentice Yoshihito Nagaoka on 41 and New Zealander Michael Dee on 35.

A new and exciting opportunity emerged in 2014 for Racing Victoria apprentices to participate in the invitational H.H. Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship.

In 2015, Ben Thompson was the first Victorian representative, taking out the opening heat in Lexington, Kentucky before backing up to claim victory in the series final in Abu Dhabi.

Others to participate in the 2015 series included Jake Bayliss (Sluzewiec, Poland) and Jackie Beriman Sacramento (USA).

Racing Victoria apprentices were again in the action again in 2016, with Jordan Childs (Rome, Italy) and Mitch Aitken (Lingfield Park, UK) participating in the series before Dylan Dunn claimed glory for Australia in the series final in Abu Dhabi for a second consecutive year.

Racing Victoria was first invited to participate in one of the most prestigious dates in the French racing calendar, the Prix de Diane Longines, in June 2013.

Talented up-and-coming jockeys from around the world, including Australia, Great Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Turkey and the United States, ride on the prestigious Chantilly racetrack in front of an audience of more than 40,000 spectators hoping to gain victory and bring home the Prix Longines Future Racing Stars.

In 2017, Lachlan King was chosen to represent the Racing Victoria AJTP on the second biggest race day on the French calendar, following in the footsteps of Patrick Moloney (2013), Jessica Payne (2014), Beau Mertens (2015) and Tahlia Hope (2016).