Lee Newman (born 25 September 1981) is a flat racing jockey, who was the British flat racing Champion Apprentice in 2000.
| Lee Newman | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Born | 25 September 1981 Scotland |
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) |
Lee Alan Charles Newman was born in Scotland on 25 September 1981, to former flat and jump jockey Nat Newman.[1]
He was Britain's Champion Apprentice flat jockey in 2000 with 87 winners, when apprenticed to Richard Hannon, Sr.[2] He rode winners for the Queen, the Aga Khan and Sheikh Mohammed.[1] In 2002, a car crash caused his weight to spiral out of control, and he quit riding. He returned in 2010 with 43 winners, but a back injury forced him to quit again the next year. For four years, he ran a betting shop in Barbados.[1] His biggest British win was on Misty Eyed in the Group 3 Molecomb Stakes in 2000, which in that year was named in honour of the Queen Mother's 100th Birthday.[3]
In 2015, he was offered a job in Mornington, Western Australia by Sam Pritchard-Gordon. He then went full time again with trainer Fred Kersley in July 2016, riding at a minimum weight of 55 kg. Unfortunately, he would again suffer serious injury. On 1 April 2017, he damaged his spleen and ribs in a three-horse pile up at Ascot in Australia, and spent five months recovering. Shortly after New Year, he was in hospital again after fracturing four vertebrae after a fall in Pinjarrah which kept him out for a year.[2]
He left for a spell riding in Bahrain in the winter of 2019,[4] where he had by far the biggest success of his career on Simsir in the £500,000 Bahrain International Trophy at Sakhir Racecourse on 20 November 2020.[1] He has also ridden two Group 3 winners in Australia - I'm Feeling Lucky in the La Trice Classic on New Year's Day 2018 and Gatting in the Hyperion Stakes on 15 June 2019.
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edit- ^ a b c d "Lee Newman". Jockeypedia. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ a b Carr, David (6 January 2018). "Luckless Lee Newman injured in fall at Pinjarrah". Racing Post. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "Profile: Jockey: Lee Newman - Stats". Racing Post. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
- ^ "Former champion apprentice Lee Newman heads to Bahrain for riding stint". Racing Post. 2 November 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2023.