Damian Lane (born 6 February 1994) is an Australian jockey based in

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. Lane was born in Bunbury in

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to Michael and Vickey Lane, who were both

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s. He grew up around horses, and began his career in Western Australia in 2009, and later moved to Victoria. His first

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winner was Trust In A Gust in the 2014

Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes The Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, registered as the Invitation Stakes, is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1400 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late September. Tota ...

at Caulfield. As of early May 2025, he has ridden 1,589 winners, including 39 in Group One races. Lane spent three months in Japan from April to July 2019, riding 37 winners, including his first Japanese Grade 1 victory at the

Victoria Mile The Victoria Mile () is a Graded stakes race, Grade 1 Flat racing, flat Horse racing, horse race in Japan for four-year-old and above thoroughbred Filly, fillies and mare (horse), mares. Organized by Japan Racing Association, it is run over a dista ...

with

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, and spent another three months there between April and July 2020, riding 41 winners. In 2019 in the Melbourne spring racing carnival he rode the Japanese-trained horses Mer De Glace and Lys Gracieux in their respective

Caulfield Cup The Caulfield Cup is a Melbourne Racing Club Group races, Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held under Handicap (horse racing), handicap conditions. This is for all horses aged three years old and older. It takes place over a distance of 2400 met ...

and

W. S. Cox Plate The W. S. Cox Plate is a Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and over under Weight for age conditions, over a distance of 2040 metres (approximately 1m 2f), that is held by the Moonee Valley Racing Club at Moo ...

wins. Lane returned to Japan in 2022 where he marked his 100th Japanese race win on June 19 with Rain From Heaven. In 2023, he won the

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with Tastiera, making him the first jockey from the Southern Hemisphere to win a Japanese classic race.

Major wins

Australian Cup The Australian Cup is a Victoria Racing Club Group races, Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for horses three years old and older, held under Weight for Age conditions, over a distance of 2000 metres, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australi ...

- (1) - ''Humidor (2017)'' *

Australian Derby The Australian Derby is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds at set weights held at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, Australia in April, during the Autumn ATC Championships Carnival. The race is considered to b ...

- (2) - ''Jon Snow (2017)'', ''Aeliana (2025)'' *

Australian Oaks The Australian Oaks is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three year old fillies at set weights run over a distance of 2,400 metres at Randwick Racecourse, Sydney in the autumn during the ATC Championships series. The Aus ...

- (3) - ''El Patroness (2022)'', ''Pennyweka (2023), Treasurethe Moment (2025)'' *

C F Orr Stakes The C F Orr Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race at Weight for Age, run over a distance of 1400 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in February. Total prize money is A$750,000. Hist ...

- (1) - ''Jacquinot (2023)'' *

- (1) - ''Mer De Glace (2019)'' *

Caulfield Guineas The Caulfield Guineas is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held over 1600 metres (1 mile) at set weights for three-year-old horses at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia. Total prize money is A$3 million. The race ...

- (1) - ''Private Life (2024)'' * Champagne Stakes - (1) - ''The Mission (2017)'' * Futurity Stakes - (1) - ''

Probabeel Probabeel (foaled 6 November 2016) is a multiple Group 1 winning New Zealand-bred thoroughbred racehorse. Background Probabeel was born and bred at Waikato Stud in Matamata, New Zealand. Initially the stud intended to keep her for racing, howe ...

(2021)'' *

Golden Rose Stakes The Golden Rose Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, run at set weights, over a distance of 1,400 metres at Rosehill Racecourse, Sydney, Australia. Previously run in late August or early September ...

- (1) - ''Jacquinot (2022)'' *

Golden Slipper Stakes The Golden Slipper Stakes is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for two-year-old horses run over 1,200 metres on turf at set weights conditions, held at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse in Sydney, Australia. It is the premier two ...

- (2) - '' Kiamichi (2019), Marhoona (2025)'' *

Makybe Diva Stakes The Makybe Diva Stakes, previously called the Craiglee Stakes, is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race at Weight for age conditions for three year olds and older, over a distance of 1,600 metres held at Flemington Racecourse in M ...

- (1) - ''Humidor (2017)'' *

Memsie Stakes The Memsie Stakes is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held under weight for age conditions, for horses aged three years old and upwards, over a distance of 1400 metres. It is held at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australi ...

- (1) - ''Humidor (2018)'' * Moir Stakes - (1) - '' Pippie (2020)'' * Kennedy Oaks - (1) - ''Aristia (2018)'' *

Kingston Town Classic The Northerly Stakes, formerly known as the Kingston Town Classic, is a Perth Racing Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run under Weight for Age conditions for three year olds and older over a distance of 1800 metres at Ascot Racecourse in Perth, We ...

- (1) - ''Stratum Star (2016)'' *

Newmarket Handicap The Newmarket Handicap is a Victoria Racing Club Group One, Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race over a distance of 1200 metres, at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia on Super Saturday in March during the VRC Autumn Racing Carn ...

- (1) - ''Joliestar (2025)'' *

Oakleigh Plate The Oakleigh Plate is a Melbourne Racing Club Group One, Group 1 Thoroughbred open handicap horse race, run over a distance of 1100 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Australia in late February. Total prize money is A$750,000. History Th ...

- (1) - ''Flamberge (2016)'' *

- (1) - ''Trust In A Gust (2014)'' * Sires' Produce Stakes - (1) - ''El Dorado Dreaming (2018)'' *

South Australian Derby The South Australian Derby is a South Australian Jockey Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds, at set weights, run over a distance of 2,500 metres at Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide, Australia during the SAJC Autumn Carniv ...

- (1) - ''Leicester (2018)'' *

Toorak Handicap The Toorak Handicap is a Melbourne Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race run as an open handicap race, over a distance of 1,600 metres at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Currently, the prizemoney is A$1,000,000. Hi ...

- (2) - ''Tosen Stardom (2017)'', ''Land Of Plenty (2018)'' *

Turnbull Stakes The Turnbull Stakes is a Victoria Racing Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race, for horses four years old and older, run under set weights with penalties conditions over a distance of 2,000 metres. The race is held at Flemington Racecourse, M ...

- (1) - ''Via Sistina (2024)'' *

Vinery Stud Stakes The Vinery Stud Stakes, registered as the Storm Queen Stakes, is an Australian Turf Club Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies at set weights run over a distance of 2,000 metres at Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, Sydney, Australia ...

- (1) - ''Treasurethe Moment (2025)'' * VRC Champions Mile - (1) - ''Yulong Prince (2020)'' * VRC Champions Stakes - (1) - ''Tosen Stardom (2017)'' *

VRC Oaks The Victoria Racing Club Oaks (known as the Crown Oaks for sponsorship reasons), is a Victoria Racing Club (VRC) Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-old fillies, run under set weights conditions, over 2,500 metres at Flemington Racecou ...

- (1) - ''Treasurethe Moment'' (2024) *

- (1) - '' Lys Gracieux (2019)'' ---- *

Hong Kong Vase The Hong Kong Vase is a Conditions races, Group 1 Flat racing, flat Horse racing, horse race in Hong Kong which is open to thoroughbreds aged three years or older. It is run each year in mid-December over a distance of 2,400 metres (about miles o ...

- (1) - ''Win Marilyn (2022)'' *

Queen Elizabeth II Cup The Queen Elizabeth II Cup is a Group One Thoroughbred horse race at Sha Tin Racecourse in the New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1975 by the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, it is run annually in April over a distance of 2,000 metres (te ...

- (1) - '' Tastiera (2025)'' ---- *

Arima Kinen The Arima Kinen (有馬記念) is a Conditions races, Grade I Flat racing, flat Horse racing, horse race in Japan open to Thoroughbreds three-years-old and above and the world's largest betting horserace. It is run in late December each year, over ...

- (1) - '' Lys Gracieux (2019)'' *

Mile Championship The Mile Championship is an International Grade I flat horse race in Japan for thoroughbreds three-year-old and above, run over a distance of 1,600 metres (approximately 1 mile) on the turf at Kyoto Racecourse in November. It was first run in 19 ...

- (1) - ''Serifos (2022)'' *

Takarazuka Kinen The Takarazuka Kinen (宝塚記念) is a Grade I flat horse race in Japan for Thoroughbreds aged three and over a distance of 2,200 metres (approximately miles) at Hanshin Racecourse (阪神競馬場) in late June. It is one of the two "All-Sta ...

- (1) - '' Lys Gracieux (2019)'' *

Teio Sho The Teio Sho (帝王賞) is a Japanese domestic Grade 1 race for thoroughbred horses aged four years and over. This race began in 1978 as a spring championship race of southern Kanto region horseracing. It was later opened to Japan Racing Associ ...

- (1) - ''Omega Perfume (2019)'' * Tenno Sho (Spring) - (1) - ''Redentor (2025)'' *

- (1) - ''Tastiera'' ''(2023)'' *

- (1) - '' Normcore (2019)'' ----

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lane, Damian 1994 births Living people Australian jockeys Sportspeople from Bunbury, Western Australia