Champion jockey Opie Bosson is set to miss New Zealand’s richest race meeting, the Karaka Million at Ellerslie on Saturday, after his High Court appeal against careless riding charges was unsuccessful on Monday.
Bosson received two suspensions for careless riding at Ellerslie on New Year’s Day and had already failed in a bid to reduce the severity of the bans which saw him outed until January 30.
The champion hoop rode the winner of both $1 million races last year and was set to partner favoured runners in both the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) and Karaka Million 3YO Classic (1600m) for champion trainer Jamie Richards.
Bosson has incredibly been aboard the past four Karaka Million 2YO winners for the Te Akau team, with victories on Melody Belle (2017), Avantage (2018), Probabeel (2019) and Cool Aza Beel (2020).
