Where have all the jockeys gone? Not up north, for sure. Just Racing reports: 'It is...a fact that such is the shortage of riders in one of Australia's tourist capitals - Cairns - that the club there has had to go to the extraordinary lengths of liaising with the Federal Immigration Department to bring apprentices across from Singapore. One such young person arrived in Cairns last Wednesday after what was best described as a "long drawn out process" - to cover all bases in respect of i

Where have all the jockeys gone? Not up north, for sure. Just Racing reports: 'It is...a fact that such is the shortage of riders in one of Australia's tourist capitals - Cairns - that the club there has had to go to the extraordinary lengths of liaising with the Federal Immigration Department to bring apprentices across from Singapore. One such young person arrived in Cairns last Wednesday after what was best described as a "long drawn out process" - to cover all bases in respect of immigration laws...The Cairns Jockey Club is trying to secure another young person from Singapore as well, to help out with the shortfall of track work riders and jockeysdomiciled in that city.'