http://www.hkjc.com/english/news/news_2010011023974.htm
10 January 2010
Chadwick breaks apprentice record to take 70 winners within 13 months
The Club held a graduation ceremony for apprentice jockey Matthew Chadwick at Sha Tin Racecourse today (10 January), after he rode his 70th winner in Hong Kong on board Multiglory in Race 2. Executive Director of Racing William A Nader presented Chadwick with a silver-gilt dish, mini-sash and cap.
Chadwick has reached the 70-winner graduation benchmark in just 12 months and 3 weeks - the fastest in Hong Kong's racing history.
After enrolling in the HKJC's racing trainee programme in 2004 and receiving basic riding training in Hong Kong and Australia, Chadwick, now 19, had his first racing experience while he was indentured to trainer Maryann Thexton on Australia's Gold Coast. Between his first competitive ride there on 17 May 2008 and his last on 24 November of that year, he notched up a total of 26 winners.
Chadwick returned to Hong Kong shortly afterwards and was licensed to begin his Hong Kong career on 15 December 2008, attached to the Tony Cruz stable. On his very first riding day, 20 December, he scored his debut Hong Kong victory on board O'Reilly Rally. He went on to capture a total of 43 winners between then and the end of the season, a tally that was earned him 4th place in the jockeys' premiership and the title of Champion Apprentice Jockey 2008/09.
His maiden success in pattern races came on 1 October 2009 when he rode Egyptian Ra to victory in the National Day Cup, a Hong Kong Group 3 event. On 1 January 2010, Chadwick partnered Egyptian Ra to land the Chinese Club Challenge Cup - his second victory in local pattern races.
Chadwick was also nominated as one of the three Hong Kong representatives in the Cathay Pacific International Jockeys' Championship in December 2009.