Jockey Larry Cassidy will squeeze in a two week skiing holiday before the end of the season but is refusing to give up the fight for a first Brisbane rider's title.Cassidy, who only started riding fulltime in Brisbane in January, is fourth with 33 wins on the Brisbane jockeys' premiership table, 11 adrift of leader Shane Scriven.Cassidy will ride at the next four metropolitan meetings before he takes a two-week skiing holiday with his family in the Snowy Mountains."A few weeks ago I thought I ha

Jockey Larry Cassidy will squeeze in a two week skiing holiday before the end of the season but is refusing to give up the fight for a first Brisbane rider's title.

Cassidy, who only started riding fulltime in Brisbane in January, is fourth with 33 wins on the Brisbane jockeys' premiership table, 11 adrift of leader Shane Scriven.

Cassidy will ride at the next four metropolitan meetings before he takes a two-week skiing holiday with his family in the Snowy Mountains.

"A few weeks ago I thought I had no chance of winning the premiership so I booked a holiday to the snow," Cassidy said.

"I got the family together for a meeting and asked if they wanted a "hot" or "cold" holiday.

"The kids said cold so we're going to the snow."

Cassidy will start his break after riding at the Caloundra Cup meeting on Saturday week.

"I'll probably miss three or four meetings and my first meeting back was going to be at the Grafton Cup carnival," he said.

"But I can came back earlier if I think I'm a chance of winning the premiership.

"If I can ride six or seven winners before I go away and Shane (Scriven) rides only one or two, then I'm a chance.

"I'm definitely not giving up but unfortunately the holiday is booked."

Cassidy, who turns 39 on July 5, is riding in career best form since deciding to make a permanent move to Queensland in January.

Fresh from his Queensland Derby triumph this month on Court Ruler, Cassidy continued his spectacular form winning last Saturday's Ipswich Cup on the Rob Heathcote-trained Our Lukas.

Cassidy has a number of good opportunities at Doomben and rates Kiwi stayer Fourmula in the Novotel Brisbane Handicap (2200m) one of his best rides.

The Richard Otto-trained Fourmula was ridden by Cassidy last start when the four-year-old finished fourth in a 2200-metre class three at Ipswich on June 5.

At his previous start, Fourmula was caught wide when runner-up to the highly promising Saint Minerva in a 1710-metre class one at Ipswich.

Saint Minerva subsequently won the Group Three Grand Prix Stakes (2200m) at Eagle Farm on May 30 but trainer Alan Bailey decided not to proceed to the Group One Queensland Oaks (2400m) at the same track earlier this month.

Meanwhile trainer Ron Macrae has decided not to run Regal Castanea in the Carlton Draught Handicap (1615m).

"I'm getting him ready for the Rockhampton Cup and I thought he'll need a tougher race than this tomorrow so he'll run at Eagle Farm on Saturday," Macrae said.

Regal Castanea showed a glimpse of returning to his best form with a last start fourth to Raincoat in a 1615-metre class six at Doomben on June 8.