Confidence Skye high
JOCKEY Skye Bogenhuber is hoping to continue her successful comeback from a lifethreatening injury when she teams up again with Brisbane’s premiership-winning trainer Tony Gollan at Aquis Park today.
Bogenhuber suffered a serious head injury as a result of a fall in a Toowoomba jumpout on March 5 but has made a remarkable recovery after 7½ months out of the saddle and will ride the Gollan trained Sizzling Power and Shoot Again.
The ever-smiling Toowoomba-based jockey only resumed race riding on October 18 and has already booted home six winners including Shoot Again for Gollan in a 2200m Sunshine Coast Maiden on Melbourne Cup day.
Bogenhuber is back on Shoot Again who is stepping up to the 2400m in the
HIT90.9 RNB Fridays BenchMark 68 Handicap and she is giving the four-year-old a great chance of scoring back-to-back wins.
“I rode Shoot Again last start, the first time I rode him at Caloundra on Cup day and he won for me. He won very nicely so I was rapt to get to ride him again,” she said.
“And the other one I am excited to ride because she has got nice Brisbane form in Maidens and is coming back to the Coast and I expect her to race really nice.”
Sizzling Power is one of the main chances in the HIT90.9 Alphabucks Maiden Handicap (1300m) and was narrowly beaten when second in a 1350m Doomben Maiden on October 16 before running fifth in a Doomben Maiden over the same trip.
Bogenhuber, 35, is keen to keep the winners rolling in and is happy with her form since her return to the saddle.
“Couldn’t be happier. I’m virtually one hundred per cent, I am loving it,” she said.
“My fitness, I have taken it steadily, so my fitness is coming really good and I am just about there, but I am a hard marker on myself.”
“I can’t complain. I have been getting a fair few winners and that is even better.”
Bogenhuber was apprenticed to Gollan in Toowoomba before he transferred his stables to Eagle Farm.