Richard Fourie 

The Gold Circle Jockey of the month award is generally reserved for a KZN-based rider but South Africa’s Champions Season attracts the full spectrum of the country’s riders for three months of brilliant racing and it would be remiss not to honour Richard Fourie as jockey of the month. The country’s leading rider and KZN-based Keagan de Melo, hit a figurative ‘roadblock’ in the last month of the season which yielded eight winners while Richard, charging in pursuit of the Jockey’s Championship, rode 15 winners that included a host of Gr1 features, thanks mainly to Sean Tarry but falling 19 short of Keagan’s national total of 277.

Richard Fourie is Gold Circle’s Jockey of the Month of July.