Regan Bayliss Apprentice

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Regan Bayliss shows plenty of cheek in breakthrough Flemington win
		 by:									 Matt Stewart 						 
						 From:							 	        Sunday Herald Sun							 						 
					 July 19, 2014								 3:59PM
     
     
										 Regan Bayliss wins aboard Reckless Assassin in the National Patient Transport Rising Stars Final at Flemington. Picture: Getty Images												 Source: Getty Images										 
								 
	 
			 				TECHNICALLY, Regan Bayliss should not have been riding at Flemington on Saturday, let alone winning the Rising Stars Final.				 				 
		 		 Nor should his brother Jake, Belinda Carlisle and a few others.
				 Regan Bayliss and Jye McNeil pose with the Rising Stars trophy. Picture: Getty Images						 Source: Getty Images				 
		 
	 
But with a field of six looming because there were only six qualified apprentice riders, officials expanded the field by altering the conditions.
It paved the way not just for young Bayliss’s first Flemington winner, from his first Flemington ride, but for Bayliss’s story to emerge.
As trainer Mick Kent told it in the mounting yard on Saturday, the tiny Bayliss brothers arrived via ute from Queensland about three years ago.
Their dad Jamie had worked for Kent in Singapore back in the 1990s, struggled to make a quid in Queensland and arrived at Kent’s some time later with two ready-made apprentice jockeys.
Jake, who rode third placegetter Madam Nash, was the elder of the two but Regan the most upfront and mischievous.
“I used to take him to Friday night meetings at Moonee Valley,’’ Kent recalled. “He’d put on a pair of my pants, tie some hay band around them and hop in the car.’’
Regan joined Peter Moody at Caulfield two years ago.
“He was staying at the house with Tony (Hayden, foreman), got out of bed at midnight, sneaked into the office and put on Black Caviar’s colours,’’ Kent said.
“He sent me a pic on his phone, saying he was only the third jockey ever to wear the colours. He’s a real cheeky bugger.’’
				 Regan Bayliss on his way to his first Flemington winner from his first Flemington ride Picture: Getty Images


Edited by Gay3 - 19 Jul 2014 at 6:55pm