Madi due back on ‘home’ turf

Madi Derrick is almost a Mid West local. The apprentice jockey from Ascot, who made her race debut at the Geraldton Turf Club in January, is planning to be back on Sunday for the biggest race day on the Mid West calendar. She recently had her first provincial win, at Pinjarra, and has also won at Kalgoorlie and Albany. “It’s the plan to be coming up if I get something (to ride),” Derrick said. Part of the “red” team of jockeys riding at metro and regional tracks, while a “blue” quarantine group is confined to Perth, Pinjarra and Bunbury, Derrick said the COVID-19 situation hasn’t been slowing her down. “I’ve been getting rides every meeting at Albany and other country meets and I usually can get a ride or two in town and at some of the closer venues. Country cups — I’ve not ridden in one, so it’d be good to work that way. If not this one, then the next.”