Shane Dye
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 September 1966 |
| Occupation | Jockey |
| Horse racing career | |
| Sport | Horse racing |
| Honours | |
| Australian Racing Hall of Fame New Zealand Racing Hall of Fame | |
Raymond Shane Dye (born 26 September 1966, in the township of Matamata New Zealand), is a former jockey. He was an apprentice jockey to Dave O’Sullivan at Matamata, before moving to Sydney, Australia where he was initially working with Vic Thompson at Warwick Farm in the late-1980s.[1] In a distinguished riding career, Dye won the Melbourne Cup on Tawriffic in 1989 in then-record time, and won four consecutive Golden Slippers from 1989 to 1992. He also won the Cox Plate on Octagonal in 1995.
Dye won two Sydney Jockeys Premierships in the 1990–91 and 1996–97 seasons and rode over 2,000 career winners.
Dye rode in Mauritius after eight years in Hong Kong.[2]
Shane Dye has ridden 93 career Group 1 winners. He has not ridden in competitive racing since 2013 and has said he will not return to racing. On 9 March 2014 he was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.[3]
Notable wins
[edit]The following are some of the races Shane has won in his career.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Brassel, Stephen (1990). A Portrait of Racing. Sydney: Simon & Schuster Australia. p. 101. ISBN 0-7318-0130-X.
- ↑ MAURITIUS: Shane Dye Accepts Riding Contract Archived 9 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Racing and Sports Tuesday, 17 March 2009
- ↑ Archived 24 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine, "Shane Dye to become Hall of Fame jockey" Thursday, 6 March 2014
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