Permission has been granted for Club Jockeys Brett Prebble and Zac Purton to be absent from Hong Kong in order to partner DEFCON (Trainers Peter & Paul Snowden) and YANKEE ROSE (trained by David Vandyke) respectively in the Golden Slipper (Group 1) which is scheduled to be conducted at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Australia on Saturday, 19 March 2016.
Both Jockeys Prebble and Purton will return to Hong Kong immediately following their commitments at the aforementioned meeting in order to fulfil riding engagements at the Sha Tin race meeting which is to be conducted on Sunday, 20 March 2016.