ANGELA JONES BOUNCES BACK IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

By Graham Potter | Friday, February 20, 2026

Premiership winning jockey Angela Jones made a welcome return to the winners’ enclosure at Eagle Farm on Saturday … aboard the Tony Gollan trained Graffitude … and the moment was as much about what Jones experienced in the three-quarters of an hour leading up to the race as it was about it being her first winning ride in four-and-a-half months following an injury enforced layoff which kept her out of the whole of the lucrative Queensland Winter carnival.

One race earlier, things looked they had gone horribly wrong for the Jones when her mount, Termagant, suddenly reared up high in the parade ring, skewed to the left and went down with an almighty crash propelling Jones out of the saddle and into the ground with some force.

Jones, instinctively, immediately got to her feet but, once safe, she was told to lie down so that she could be assessed. That was a worrying time, but, soon enough, Jones was given the all clear to walk back to the Jockey’s Room.

In essence, that was her first win for the day!

It would have been no surprise if Jones had been stood down from her rides for the rest of the meeting, but she is made of sterner stuff than that, and she duly reappeared to take the ride on Graffitude in the next race.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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