JOCKEY PROFILES

DAMIEN OLIVER

Damien, Mark Oliver was born in Perth, Western Australia on 22.7.1972. He worked as an apprentice jockey for Lindsey Rudland and Lee Freedman. Damien Oliver rode his first winner Mr Gudbud in March 1988 at Bunbury, WA. He achieved his first feature win in August 1989 on Goucho at the AJC Warwick Stakes and his first Group 1 win at the VATC Vic Health Cup on Submariner, trained by Bart Cummings.

Some Achievements:

- winner of 59 Group 1 races
- winner of Melbourne Cup
- winner of 4 Caulfield Cups
- winner of 2 Cox Plates
- winner of 2 Victoria Derby
- winner of AJC Derby
- winner of AJC Warwick Stakes
- winner of VATC Vic Health Cup
- winner of 4 Scobie Breasley Medals, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2002

Premiership wins:

Perth, Apprentice
- 1988/89 - 66 wins
Melbourne Senior Jockey Premierships
- 1990/91 - 71 wins, apprentice
- 1992/93 - 63 wins
- 1993/94 - 66 wins
- 1994/95 - 81.5 wins
- 1998/99 - 90.5 wins
- 2001/02 - 91 wins

Some of the Horses Damien Oliver rode:

- Schillaci
- Testa Rossa
- Doriemus
- Naturalism
- Northerly
- Groucho
- Submariner
- Mr Gudbud