Jeff Lloyd (born 1 September 1961) is a horse racing jockey currently based in Australia. Lloyd has ridden more than 5500 winners during his international career. He rode briefly in

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during the 1993/1994 racing season, then again in 2009-2012. In 2011 he won the Hong Kong International Mile. Lloyd has ridden winners in South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia, and has also ridden in the

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, Germany, Dubai, Macau, Mauritius, and

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. Lloyd holds the record for riding 3

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winners on a day, and has ridden 7 winners in a meeting on 4 occasions. He broke the Queensland Metropolitan and State records in the 2016/2017 racing season, and won the Australian Metropolitan Jockey premiership. He won the Queensland Jockey premiership three years in a row (2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18), and has won 94 races at the Group One level, hundreds of Group 2 and Group 3 races, and jockey premierships in South Africa, Mauritius and Australia. Lloyd is the oldest jockey in history to win a Jockey State premiership. Lloyd suffered a well-documented

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in March 2014, and made a remarkable comeback in the

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14 months later.The Hong Kong Jockey Club – Profile of Jeff Lloyd
/ref> Family - Jockey sons Jaden and Zac are riding with success currently in Queensland

Performance

References

External links

Hong Kong Jockey Club Official Page
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The Hong Kong Jockey Club The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is one of the oldest institutions in Hong Kong, having been founded in 1884. In 1959, it was granted a Royal Charter and renamed The Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club (). The institution reverted to its original name ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lloyd, Jeffrey 1961 births Living people Hong Kong jockeys