Last Day Battle For Roy Higgins Medal
Friday, 17 October 2008: Winks and Oliver have each ridden three winners and a second after the first two meetings of the Caulfield carnival.
Kerrin McEvoy, with two winners, is the only other jockey with multiple successes.
Rival jockeys will need two or three winners, plus placings, to have a chance of overhauling the breakaway leaders.
Winks will wear the yellow leader's armband when he rides Cool Diva in the first race, the TAB.Mobi Cup. It is the first time in Australian racing that the progressive leader for a jockeys' award has worn a leader's armband, akin to the yellow jersey in cycling.
Oliver's first ride is in the third event, the Winning Edge Presentations Cup and his mount Heart of Dreams is favourite.
Oliver has eight rides and Winks seven for the day.
They will ride against each other in the last five races, including the BMW Caulfield Cup where Oliver is on the English stayer Mad Rush and Winks again will team-up with last year's runner-up Douro Valley.
The Roy Higgins Medal honours champion jockey Roy Higgins who retired after riding more than 2300 winners, including 106 at Group One level. He still shares the record (with the late Billy Duncan) of 11 Victorian jockeys' premierships.
Higgins will present the medal to the inaugural winner after the last race.
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