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Top Brazilian jockey
Joao Henrique Almansa
Moreira will join the riding
ranks in Singapore next week.
Moreira, a 25-year-old
Brazilian jockey currently licensed by the Jockey Club de Sao Paulo in
Brazil, has been granted a six-month licence from March 15.
Moreira began his career in 2000 and has
already chalked up more than 1,000 wins, including five at Grade 1 level.
Among his most famous wins in Brazil are the Grade 1 Grande Premio Diana and
Grande Premio Henrique de Toledo Lara, both captured last year with top
filly BUBBLY JANE at Cidade Jardim.
Moreira also rode Brazilian champion EU TAMBEM to success in the Grade 1
Derby Argentino in Palermo, Argentina in 2006.
Moreira, who currently leads the Sao Paulo jockey’s premiership on 110 wins
and goes to scale at 51.5kg, has also ridden in France, Dubai and Uruquay
and is a two-time Brazilian Eclipse Award (Trofeu Mossoro) winner (2006/7
and 2007/8).
He also holds the record of most wins in one meeting at Cidade Jardem when
he scored eight wins from a card of races in March 2006.  |
