Ben Price was able to celebrate his brilliant first full season in the saddle at the annual Racing SA Industry Awards night in August.
Price was one of the major winners at the annual event claiming a clean sweep of the three apprentice awards.
He won the Leon Macdonald Award for Apprentice of the Year, the South Australian Metropolitan Apprentice Jockey of the Year and the Caitlin Forrest Award as the South Australian Provincial and Country Apprentice Jockey of the Year.
August was also a successful month for another rising star, as Stacey Callow claimed her first riding treble at the Morphettville midweek meeting, the same week she was granted her metropolitan licence.
Callow rode two winners for boss Jon O’Connor as well as Trumpsta to victory for the Phillip Stokes stable.
She rode the most winners of the Racing SA Apprentice Academy in the month and boasted the best strike rate riding at 22 per cent runners to winners.
Alana Livesey’s good run continued with two riding doubles at Gawler and Quorn.
Apprentice riders also recorded milestone wins in two country cup features.
Felicity Atkinson kick started the month winning the Roxby Downs Cup aboard Lettemgo for Trevor Day while Kristo Sardelic claimed the Quorn Cup on the Kylie McKerlie-trained Fiable.