Zac Lloyd claims Bart Cummings Medal
Outstanding apprentice jockey Zac Lloyd has stormed home to claim this year’s prestigious Bart Cummings Medal, announced during Racing’s Night of Champions Awards at Royal Randwick.
Lloyd polled a high number of votes over the final month of the season to finish with 81 points, breaking a 12-year grip on the award held by Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller who finished third with 62 points.
The training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott were runners-up on 64 points.
“Zac Lloyd is an exceptionally talented jockey and is just one of a number of a new generation of remarkable young riders currently competing in New South Wales,” said Mr Peter V’landys AM, Racing NSW’s Chief Executive.
“Zac has enjoyed a highly successful season where he also won the Sydney apprentices’ premiership but to beat the 12-time Bart Cummings Medal winner Chris Waller highlights the
enormous magnitude of the win. Congratulations are extended to Zac and his racing family.”
Zac Lloyd steered home 76 city winners in his first Sydney racing season, and it’s been four decades since an apprentice has ridden more winners dating back to champion rider Wayne Harris when he landed 86 wins during the 1980/81 season.