{"id":287139,"date":"2025-07-24T05:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287139\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:46:14","slug":"shock-twist-in-brisbane-jockeys-premiership-race-after-cobalt-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/287139\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock twist in Brisbane jockeys\u2019 premiership race after cobalt positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been a shock twist to the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 premiership race with apprentice Emily Lang<\/a> now only trailing great mate Angela Jones<\/a> by one win after the disqualification of a winning horse due to a cobalt positive.<\/p>\n

With only two metropolitan meetings remaining in the season, Jones (65 wins) had led Lang (63 wins) by two.<\/p>\n

But Lang will now be elevated to 64 wins, as a horse she had finished runner-up to was disqualified at a stewards\u2019 hearing in Brisbane on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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The Will and Peter Hulbert<\/a>-trained Dillian<\/a> was the winner of a BM80 race at Eagle Farm on April 26, with Lang finishing second on Jack Bruce<\/a>-trained Galifianakis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Dillian has now been disqualified by stewards and a $5000 fine imposed on its trainers after the galloper tested above the legal threshold for cobalt. <\/p>\n

The Hulberts are mystified as to how cobalt got in the imported gelding\u2019s system and say they have never had one of their horses test positive to a banned substance.<\/p>\n

But they don\u2019t intend to appeal, meaning Lang edges closer to Jones\u2019 in the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 title race which for the first time will be won by a female jockey.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFollowing its run on April 26, Dillian returned a positive to cobalt, above the threshold,\u201d Queensland chief steward Josh Adams told Racenet.<\/p>\n

\u201cDillian has today been disqualified from that win.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe training partnership was fined $5000 and their license was suspended for 12 months, with that suspension being wholly suspended for two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have already notified Jack Bruce that Galifianakis has got the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will give Emily Lang that extra win, so she is now only one behind Angela Jones.\u201d <\/p>\n

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The disqualification drama adds extra intrigue to the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 premiership.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday at Eagle Farm, Lang was suspended by stewards for seven days for overuse of the whip.<\/p>\n

However, that suspension will not impact the race for the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 title, as Lang deferred her ban to start after the last metropolitan meeting of the season at Doomben next Wednesday.<\/p>\n

It is a low-key off-season meeting at Doomben on Saturday but all eyes will be on Jones (full book of nine rides) and Lang (rides in eight of the nine races) as the good mates try to get the edge in the premiership.<\/p>\n

Regardless of who comes out on top after next Wednesday\u2019s final metropolitan meeting, history will be made as no female rider has ever won the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 title.<\/p>\n

Originally published as Cobalt disqualification has ramifications on Brisbane jockeys\u2019 premiership race between Angela Jones and Emily Lang<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a shock twist to the Brisbane jockeys\u2019 premiership race with apprentice Emily Lang now only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4107],"tags":[107282,186,22631,107280,107283,107279,107277,107281,107290,107276,77321,107275,107286,89097,107289,22617,107287,107278,89116,13691,89105,89096,107285,1071,107284,107288,79,22615,16,15],"class_list":["post-287139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-angela-jones","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-ben-dorries","tag-chief-steward","tag-cobalt-positive","tag-disqualification-drama","tag-female-jockey","tag-female-rider","tag-final-metropolitan-meeting","tag-jack-bruce","tag-josh-adams","tag-low-key-off-season-meeting","tag-metropolitan-meeting","tag-metropolitan-meetings","tag-oceania","tag-peter-hulbert","tag-premiership-race","tag-punters-racing-queensland","tag-queensland","tag-racenet-jockeys","tag-racenet-racing-queensland","tag-racenet-stewards","tag-racing","tag-shock-twist","tag-shows-value","tag-sports","tag-title-race","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}