How star Aussie jockey Jamie Kah has changed her life focus following race fall and cocaine scandal
- Jockey Jamie Kah is determined to stay on the right path
- The 2021 cocaine scandal and the cocaine scandal did not help her image
- Also fortunate to recover from a race crash in March 2023
Aussie champion Jamie Kah knew it was time to draw a line in the sand after her cocaine scandal last year.
Extremely talented in the saddle, but also a party girl, Kah, 28, started cutting out the negative people in her life.
She remains somewhat uneasy about being labeled a ‘role model’ for other female hoops – but the Adelaide-raised star is enjoying a simpler life these days as she prepares to marry fellow jockey Ben Melham early next year.
Kah also knows the March 2023 race fall at Melbourne’s Flemington could have killed her after she was speared into the turf and spent time in a coma in hospital.
The cocaine scandal – just three months later – also did her no good.
Champion Aussie jockey Jamie Kah knew it was time to grow up after her cocaine scandal last year (pictured right, with fiancé Ben Melham)
Kah is extremely talented in the saddle, but previously also had a reputation as a party girl
Kah, 28, has ridden an impressive 1232 winners in her career, including 11 Group 1 victories
She also grabbed headlines after breaking Covid lockdown restrictions in 2021.
Day by day, Kah becomes the best version of herself – and she couldn’t be happier.
“Now I appreciate life more and enjoy the good aspects,” she said News Corp.
‘My circle is a lot smaller now…only people who are important to me and who care about me.
‘You just have to trust the people around you… and things like social media, Instagram and Twitter, I don’t look at them anymore.
“My PA lady, she goes on my Instagram and deletes bad comments and bad things and blocks them so I don’t have to read them.”
Kah started her driving training in 2011 after leaving school at the age of 15.
Fast forward to 2024 and Kah has ridden an impressive 1232 winners in her career, including 11 Group 1 races.
She can’t wait to marry Melham and thinks the interest of women in racing – especially in Victoria when it comes to apprentices in recent years – is ‘crazy’.
‘Of course you have to get the results, but I feel like I have hopefully now shown the women in the industry that as long as you believe you are good enough, and continue to ride winners, you ride well, they ( trainers) will turn you on,” she said.
‘When I started, my then boss put me on every horse of his. There should be more people like that.”
Kah has several rides on Saturday at Flemington and she will be feeling confident after winning the Group 1 Australian Guineas aboard Southport Tycoon at the same circuit last weekend.