2019 WORLD ALL-STAR JOCKEYS The World All-Star Jockeys (WASJ) is an international event launched by the Japan Racing Association. Formerly called the World Super Jockeys Series since its establishment in 1987, it has welcomed more than 240 top-caliber jockeys from Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia. The event is held in late August at Sapporo Racecourse in Hokkaido. This year’s event welcomes five outstanding jockeys from New Zealand, United States, France, Ireland and Hong Kong in joining two NAR (National Association of Racing; local public racing) jockeys and seven JRA jockeys in their bid for the title. A team competition was added to the regular individual contest in 2015, in which the overseas and NAR jockeys form “Team WAS (World All-Star)” and compete against “Team JRA” to attain the most points as a team. The first two of the four-race series will be conducted on August 24th (Sat), while the third and fourth will be held the following day. 2018 World All-Star Jockeys (closing ceremony) August 2019 The Japan Racing Association 1 The 2019 World All-Star Jockeys 1. Date Saturday, August 24, 2019 Sunday, August 25, 2019 2. Venue Sapporo Racecourse 3. Races Saturday, August 24 10th race : 2019 World All-Star Jockeys First Leg Three-Year-Olds & Up, 2 Wins Class turf, 1,200 meters (about 6 furlongs) 11th race : 2019 World All-Star Jockeys Second Leg Three-Year-Olds & Up, 3 Wins Class turf, 2,000 meters (about 10 furlongs) Sunday, August 25 10th race : 2019 World All-Star Jockeys Third Leg Three-Year-Olds & Up, 2 Wins Class dirt, 1,700 meters (about 8.5 furlongs) 12th race : 2019 World All-Star Jockeys Fourth Leg Three-Year-Olds & Up, 2 Wins Class turf, 1,800 meters (about 9 furlongs) 4. Jockeys a. JRA will invite a total of six overseas jockeys except for when JRA chooses an NAR jockey for his or her outstanding achievements in addition to the one chosen according to article “b”, in which case five overseas jockeys will be invited. b. JRA will choose the NAR jockey and one substitute based on recommendations from the NAR by July 23. c. Seven JRA affiliated jockeys obtaining the following status will be chosen in that order. Excluding the Derby winner, the remaining jockeys will be selected equally from the Eastern (Miho Training Center-based) and Western (Ritto Training Center-based) district. 1) Winning jockey of the 2019 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) 2) 2018 JRA Award Most Valuable Jockey winner 3) Leading jockeys (from January 1 to July 21), one each from the Eastern and the Western 2 district 4) The rest will be chosen according to the most outstanding achievements this season (in the absence of such candidates, participants will be chosen by rankings) d. In the following cases, replacements will be chosen from JRA jockeys by rankings. Overseas or NAR jockey cancelling participation after August 17 JRA jockey cancelling participation after the mounts are drawn 5. Drawing for Mounts Wednesday, August 21, at Miho Training Center, Ibaraki Prefecture 6. Points to Determine Winner (Individual) The jockey who earns the most points in the four races will be declared the World All-Star Jockeys winner. If a jockey is unable to ride due to scratching or other reasons beyond their control, they will be awarded six points. Any jockey who fails to finish will attain the same points as the last-place finisher in that race. No point is awarded for disqualifications, in which the jockey is at fault. 1st : 30 points 2nd : 20 points 3rd : 15 points 4th : 12 points 5th : 10 points 6th : 08 points 7th : 06 points 8th : 04 points 9th : 02 points below 10th : 1 point Note: In the case of a dead-heat, each dead-heat finisher will receive full points. 7. Awards a. The top three jockeys will receive the following awards: 1st : ¥ 3 million (about US$ 26,087) & trophy valued at ¥ 300,000 (about US$ 2,609) 2nd : ¥ 2 million (about US$ 17,391) 3rd : ¥ 1 million (about US$ 08,696) Note: US$1 = ¥115 b. The participants will also form two teams—the overseas and NAR jockeys will compete the JRA jockeys—and the team with the most points attained in total will be awarded prizes (each team member will earn ¥ 200,000 (about US$ 1,739)). In the occasion of a tie, the team that has more jockeys with higher placings in the races will be determined as the winner. *1 The season records of the overseas jockeys are as of July 31 and that of the NAR jockey is as of July 21. *2 The season records of the JRA jockeys are as of July 21 and include NAR and overseas starts designated by JRA. However, career records in data and in context cover JRA races only unless otherwise specified. *3 NAR=National Association of Racing (local public racing) *4 “Participation in the WASJ” include participations in the World Super Jockeys Series. 3 New Zealand Lisa Allpress Date of Birth : May 20, 1975 ’17/’18 Season Record : 367 mounts, 56 wins / NZ$ 1,148,029 ’18/’19 Season Record : 815 mounts,133 wins / NZ$ 2,480,653 Recent Career Highlights : ’19 New Zealand Oaks (G1, Sentimental Miss) ’16 Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (G1, Luna Rossa) Participation in the WASJ : 1st An established leading jockey in New Zealand, Lisa Allpress made a remarkable comeback after two slow seasons due to injuries and completed the 2018/19 season at the top of the jockey’s premiership for the third time with 133 wins which included her sixth Group One title in the New Zealand Oaks with Sentimental Miss. A known figure in Japan from her past stints, she will make her first appearance in the coming World All-Star Jockeys this year. Born in Stratford, New Zealand, Allpress worked as a vet nurse before signing an apprenticeship with trainer Kevin Gray at the age of 20. She marked her first win in 1996, already rode 84 winners in her sixth season and registered more than 100 annual wins for the first time in 2009/10. Married to trainer Karl Allpress and a mother of two, she captured her first Group One title in New Zealand in the 2010 Captain Cook Stakes with We can Say It Now and was runner-up in the jockey standings with 145 wins at the end of the 2010/11 season. Following Lisa Cropp, she became the second female jockey to win the national jockey’s premiership in 2011/12 with 159 wins, and the first female jockey to reach 1,000 career-wins the following season when she earned another G1 title in the Hawke’s Bay Challenge Stakes with Ocean Park. She added a second premiership title in 2015/16 when she tallied a personal best of 171 annual wins while notching three G1 victories—the Levin Classic (Dukedom), the Herbie Dyke Stakes (Valley Girl) and the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes (Luna Rossa). Allpress has experience riding in Australia, Macau, Malaysia as well as in Singapore where she claimed the 2002 Lion City Cup aboard Classic Marco and was eighth there in the 2014 jockey standings with 40 wins. She also took part in the 2013 Shergar Cup in Great Britain. While yet to claim a feature race title in Japan, she has a record of 11 wins among 241 starts while riding under short-term licenses in 2002, 2015 and 2016. She is well known for her impressive runner-up effort in the G3 Niigata Daishoten with lightly favored Nakayama Knight in 2015. 4 United States Julien Leparoux Date of Birth : July 15, 1983 ’18 Season Record : 733 mounts, 99 wins / $ 8,171,803 ’19 Season Record : 431 mounts, 61 wins / $ 4,517,486 Recent Career Highlights : ’19 Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1, Concrete Rose) ’18 Sword Dancer Stakes (G1, Glorious Empire) Participation in the WASJ : 2nd Two-time Eclipse Award winner Julien Leparoux registered his first G1 title of this year when guiding Concrete Rose to a 2-3/4-length victory in the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes on July 6. The French-born jockey with over 2,600 career victories attracted the attention of Japanese racing fans this year when he partnered with Japanese three-year-old colt Master Fencer in two of the Triple Crown races in the U.S., which resulted in a sixth in the Kentucky Derby and a fifth in the Belmont Stakes. Born into a racing family in Senlis, France, Leparoux relocated to California, U.S. in 2003 to become an exercise rider for French trainer Patrick Biancone. Debuting in 2005, he immediately rose to prominence, becoming the national leading jockey with 403 wins the following year, which included his first G1 title in the Beverly D. Stakes with Gorella, and was named the Eclipse Award Outstanding Apprentice Jockey. Continuing to accumulate wins in the following years, he was ranked among the top ten jockeys in earnings in 2006-2007, 2009-2012 and 2017. His career-high third in 2009 included nine G1 titles, which earned him his second Eclipse Award title. He was the fourth jockey to win the Eclipse Award both as an apprentice and a jockey, following three Hall of Fame jockeys, Steve Cauthen, Kent Desormeaux and Chris McCarron. While without a Triple Crown title, he has scored seven Breeders’ Cup victories—the Juvenile Turf (Nownownow) in 2007; the Filly and Mare Turf (Forever Together) in 2008; the Filly and Mare Sprint (Informed Decision), the Juvenile Fillies (She Be Wild) and the Dirt Mile (Furthest Land) in 2009; the Mile (Tepin) in 2015; and the Juvenile (Classic Empire) in 2016.