- Jockey Jamie Kah is determined to stay on the right path
- The 2021 Covid breach and cocaine scandal did not help his image
- I was also lucky to recover from a crash in the race in March 2023.
Australian champion jockey Jamie Kah knew it was time to put an end to her cocaine scandal last year.
Extremely talented in the saddle but also a party animal, Kah, 28, began eliminating the negative people in her life.
She remains a little uncomfortable with being labeled a “role model” to other women in basketball, but the Adelaide-bred star is enjoying a simpler life these days as she prepares to marry fellow jockey Ben Melham early next year. .
Kah also knows that the race crash in March 2023 at Flemington in Melbourne could have killed her after she was pinned to the grass and spent time in a coma in hospital.
The cocaine scandal, just three months later, did him no favors either.
Australian champion jockey Jamie Kah knew it was time to grow up after her cocaine scandal last year (pictured right, with fiancé Ben Melham)
Kah is supremely talented in the saddle, but previously also had a reputation for being a party girl.
Kah, 28, has ridden a whopping 1,232 winners in his career, including 11 Group 1 wins.
He also attracted headlines after breaching Covid lockdown restrictions in 2021.
Day after day, Kah becomes the best version of herself and couldn’t be happier.
“Now I value life more and enjoy the good parts,” he said. News Corporation.
‘My circle is much smaller now… just people who I consider important and who care about me.
“You just have to trust the people around you… and things like social media, Instagram and Twitter, I don’t look at them anymore.”
“My personal assistant, she goes on my Instagram and deletes bad comments and bad things and blocks them so I don’t have to read them.”
Kah began his riding apprenticeship in 2011 after leaving school at 15 years old.
Fast forward to 2024 and Kah has raced a whopping 1,232 career wins, including 11 Group 1 races.
She can’t wait to marry Melham and finds female acceptance in racing, especially in Victoria when it comes to apprentices in recent years, “insane”.
“Obviously you have to get the results, but I feel like I hope I’ve shown women in the industry that as long as you think you’re good enough and you go ahead and ride winners, you’re going to do well, they (the trainers) will put you on,” she said. .
“When I started, my boss at the time… put me on every one of his horses… there should be more people like that out there.”
On Saturday, Kah has multiple trips. at Flemington and will be feeling confident after winning last weekend’s Group 1 Australian Guineas aboard Southport Tycoon at the same track.
