{"id":80847,"date":"2025-05-07T03:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80847\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T03:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:43:09","slug":"lauren-abbott-looking-to-strike-success-on-awards-stage-racing-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/80847\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren Abbott looking to strike success on awards stage :: Racing Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lauren Abbott has tasted success with hundreds of race wins as both a jockey and a trainer but now she is in line for an accolade of a different sort.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott is one of two finalists for the Queensland Off-The-Track Thoroughbred Care and Welfare Award at this year\u2019s Australian Stud and Stable Staff Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old juggles training around half a dozen horses for racing, along with retraining 12 former racehorses, as part of her role as a QOTT Acknowledged Retrainer.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott said the nomination came as a bit of a shock after she only recently joined the QOTT Program to make her retraining endeavours official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was actually pretty humbled and I was surprised actually, because I\u2019ve only been a QOTT Acknowledged Retrainer since May last year,\u201d Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was great to be nominated &#8211; my friend (jockey) Georgie Cartwright actually nominated me and it was great to make the final two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been in the industry since I was a teenager as a jockey but doing the off-the-track retraining officially\u2026it\u2019s been less than 12 months since I began in the program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott had a strong equestrian background as a teenager before starting her jockey apprenticeship as an 18-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She rode over 300 winners throughout Victoria and Queensland in the saddle, before retiring from race riding in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott switched to helping run then-husband Brad Herne\u2019s stable at Eagle Farm before deciding to set up her own operation in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>While racing on the track kept her extremely busy, she has always found the time to retrain retired racehorses off it.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than sending her horses off to be retrained elsewhere, Abbott decided she would take on the retired thoroughbreds herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Andrew Smith Lauren Abbott has tasted success with hundreds of race wins as both a jockey and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-80847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114464489708392150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80847","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=80847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}