Top jockey Glen Boss splits with wife of almost 30 years and finds new love with millionaire property developer
- Boss won the Melbourne Cup three years in a row with Makybe Diva
- Is divorced from his wife and has found new love
- Met his new flame at the same place he met his ex-wife
Melbourne Cup champion Glen Boss has parted ways with his wife of almost 30 years as he finds new love with a Gold Coast property millionaire.
The three-time winner of the country’s biggest race has split from his wife Sloane Boss and stepped out with Queensland businesswoman and property developer Sandy Cowell.
Boss and his catwalk model wife reportedly split earlier this year.
News Corp has reported that Boss, 54, and Cowell, 61, are both regulars at the Gold Coast races.
Cowell has also shared sweet images of the duo at the Gold Coast Turf Club and on a recent holiday to the Whitsundays.
βIt’s no secret: They’re all over each other on the track,β said a racing insider.
Champion jockey Glen Boss has split from his wife and is now with Queensland businesswoman and property developer Sandy Cowell (pictured together)
Cowell buzzes at the Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation Gold Dinner (left) and Boss raises his hand in triumph after riding Makybe Diva to win the 2004 Melbourne Cup (right)
Best known for his triumphant rides aboard Makybe Diva in the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Melbourne Cups, Boss has ridden 45 Group 1 winners since his debut as a senior jockey in 1990.
His journey took a dangerous turn when a serious racing accident threatened to curtail his career during a heavy rainstorm at a Macau race track in June 2002, but he was not only able to return but win the Melbourne Cup the following year.
Boss and his wife Sloane have two adult children, Tayte and Carter.
Sandy Cowell is an active property developer, businesswoman and self-made millionaire on the Gold Coast, with an extensive property portfolio and property investment and construction companies.
She has an adult daughter named Julia from a previous relationship.
Boss did not respond to the publication’s request for comment, while Sloane said it was “really no one’s business.”
βIt’s personal, it’s between Glen and me,β she said.
Sloane and Glen Boss reportedly split earlier this year after nearly three decades of marriage
Sloane and Glen Boss dressed as Barbie and Ken. The couple met when they were just teenagers and have two adult children together
Sloane (right) was recently photographed enjoying some post-divorce time out with a friend
Boss, originally from Caboolture north of Brisbane, met Sloane at the Gold Coast Turf Club when he was an 18-year-old apprentice.
βI remember seeing him on a horse and thinking, ‘I wonder who that is?’β Sloane previously said.
‘After the last race the jockeys usually get dressed and come into the bar. Another jockey’s wife introduced me to him (Glen). Oops, I was in a bar and I was only 16.
‘He asked me what we were doing that night and we said we were going to Jupiter’s Casino in Broadbeach. And we met there. He was with friends and we bumped into each other and that was it.’
Cowell had bought a penthouse apartment in Mermaid Waters on the Gold Coast in 2005 and spent $1 million on renovations, before putting the property on the market in 2017 because her daughter wanted a dog.
The Mermaid Beach home was on the market for $5.95 million.
βShe’s been bugging me about having pets for years,β Cowell said at the time.