Jockey Blaike McDougall sets sights on Wodonga Gold Cup

He recently enjoyed a successful spring carnival where he landed two of the biggest wins of his blossoming career.

McDougall won the $300,000 Group 2 Caulfield Sprint, (1000m) aboard the Peter Moody-trained Oxley Road on Caulfield Cup day.

He also won the $200,000 Group 3 Tesio Stakes, (1600m) for trainer trainer Tom Dabernig aboard Flying Mascot.

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McDougall also secured his first ride in the Melbourne Cup aboard the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Carif.

The longshot hope finished near the tail of the field behind winner Verry Elleegant.

Star jockey Jamie Kah is also set to make her highly anticipated return to the track next Thursday after winning a Supreme Court appeal against a two-month ban.

She was handed the ban by racing officials who said she gave misleading information about a gathering that broke lockdown rules.

Kah had accepted an initial three-month ban for her role in hosting an illegal gathering at an Airbnb rental on the Mornington Peninsula in late August, in breach of Victoria's COVID-19 rules.

However, the 25-year-old successfully appealed against a further two-month sanction for giving false and/or misleading evidence to Racing Victoria stewards over who attended the illegal gathering.

Kah made the trek to Wodonga last year to partner the David O'Prey-trained Strome in the feature.

But for the first time this year the Wodonga Cup meeting clashes with the night meeting at Moonee Valley.

In previous years the metropolitan night meeting has been at Cranbourne.

The clash could make it hard for the club to attract Melbourne based jockeys to its premier meeting with most high-profile jockeys expected to favour the Moonee Valley meeting where they don't have to travel.

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