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Lao gets licence for
remainder of season
SINGAPORE, 11 March 2005 |
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Former top Macau jockey Peter Lao Weng Hong
has been granted a Malayan Racing Association (MRA) licence for the
remainder of the 2005 racing season.
This will the 30-year-old’s second stint as an expatriate jockey after his first in 2002, when he landed 11 winners from 124 rides. Lao was intoduced to local racing by former Macau based trainer Charles Leck in the mid-nineties. In 1996, Lao landed the Queen Elizabeth II Cup and Raffles Cup astride the Leck-trained EMERALD ISLES. As a visiting jockey, he booted home 14 winners that year. However, Lao, who has more than 480 winners to his credit, has not enjoyed much success in Macau this (2004/05) season, riding only five winners thus far. By contract, Oscar Chavez is third in the table with 26 winners and Benny Woodworth is eighth with 19 winners. Meanwhile, Bruce Marsh had his application for a trainer's licence officially with the Malaya Racing Association. The 53-year-old New Zealander has six months (until September 7) to secure stable facilities at any of the four associated clubs, failing which his registration will lapse. 
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