Spencer to feature heavily at the Curragh

Jamie Spencer cements his position as new stable jockey to Aidan O'Brien with four rides for the Ballydoyle trainer on the opening…

Jamie Spencer cements his position as new stable jockey to Aidan O'Brien with four rides for the Ballydoyle trainer on the opening day of the flat season at the Curragh on Sunday.

Spencer, 23, opens proceedings on the two-year-old son of Danehill Russian Blue, owned by Robert Sangster, in the Tally Ho Stud EBF Maiden over five furlongs.  His other three mounts for O'Brien all carry the colours of Coolmore owner John Magnier's wife, Sue.

Spencer rides Royal Tigress, runner-up in a Tipperary maiden on her only start as a juvenile last August, in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Park Express Stakes.

Twentytwoandchange is his ride in the most valuable race on the card, the 75,000 ladbrokes.com Irish Lincolnshire.
He is aboard Last Love in the concluding One In Four Maiden. The three-year-old filly by Danehill is making her racecourse debut in the one-mile event.

READ MORE

Spencer has a total of six mounts on the eight-race programme, having picked up spares on Lupine in the Spar Ballymany At The Curragh Handicap and on Forrestfield in the Burke Brothers Jockeys Challenge Handicap.