Champion New Zealand Jockey Opie Bosson has retired after a several decade career.
The Thoroughbred racing jockey decided it was his time to go after giving all he had to give.
TAB Trackside spokesperson Aidan Rodley said he is one of New Zealand's greatest ever jockeys.
Rodley joins the show to discuss this and what's to come in the following weeks for racing.
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He looks at me on the All Sport Breakfast twenty four past eight. Well, we're going to have a bit of a focus on racing now because it's such a busy time for racing up and down the country. Some of those boutique, beautiful race tracks get cut it out for some special summer meets. But also big news in the racing world in the last twenty four hours or so with champion New Zealand jockey Oppy Bosson retiring after I distinguished several decades in the sports. Aidan Rodley out of tab track siders with us morning to you Aiden.
Your morning, Adam, have things with you?
Yeah, not bad? Well there this news tell us about sort of how it's been received in the industry over the past twenty four hours or so.
Regarding OPI, Yeah, it's obviously been now a lot of tributes to paid to one of our greatest ever jockeys. His records outstanding. I think it's called many by surprise, especially he was on ninety nine Group one wins. So I only went away from bringing up a century. But I spoke to Opia yesterday and he said, basically he'd given all he had to give. It was just the right time to move on and he's now going to retire and move on to the next phase of his life. But he look through his record. You remember the great rides that he produced, and undoubtedly he was world class and he had a retirement of one of New Zealand racing's greats.
Yeah, and you've always had a lot to do with him. Eight and just give us, give us a bit of an insight into his worked, his dedication to you know, the sport that he clearly just had an amazing amount of success.
And yeah, obviously I've worked with Opie for the last ten years as his writer's agent and we work closer together. One thing about OPI he just such a genuine guy. He just doesn't have a bad bone in his body. He's probably done some things that he's regretted over the time, but you know, he's just such a likable, very popular and you know, you'd see those Kadak a million nights, the biggest nights that became in New Zealand racing where you know the boys get paid group with the hundreds together chanting and one as he came back after winning what I think five Kadak a million two year old races in a row, so obviously he'd worked really hard. He was never a lightweight jockey. I remember before I was even involved with him, watching him when the Victorian Oaks from Flemington had gone over there as part of a trip and here he comes back as seventeen year old jockey winning one of the biggest races during Melbourne Cup week and he really stamped this mark right from the word go. And his career, you know, we saw as you know, just the way he held himself when the pressure was on. It never phased him. He wrote imperatorist to nine group one wins in the last couple of years, which is amazing. It's called for Cup right on. Mongolian Kahn was just one for the ages and one of Australia's major races. He produced just the probably the right of his career. But outside that he's just an absolute pro and unfortunately there will be many news gentlemen who will be crying into the morning cups of coffee with the news today. Yeah, and it's all right.
And speaking of today, what have we got sort of looking at some of the main meats. I see there's timidou Rottadua. There'll be a bit of excitement around the traps there.
Yeah. As you said earlier, Adam, it is the time of year where we get around to a lot of those country tracks and the Christmas crowds come out pro Christmas. It's all about Christmas at the races and getting the sort of the businesses along and having their work doss and that really well received. This time of year is just more about the holiday crowds and they'll normally turn up, turn up in their shorts and their bucket ats and just enjoy a really good day's racing. So it'll also do it today. Nice card there, really nice race day there as well, and the graph Track Harness as well at Westport as well. And then of course we get through this period with plenty of other meetings. We've got a wag Anuis tomorrow to topor for Cup Day there on the thirty s New Plymouth on the thirty first and then back down sleep in year's day. So some really good racing coming up. The next big day of racing is at Trentham on the fourth of January, which does speature the telegraph, and that is just going to be a telegraph of the ages New Zealand's best sprinters and we've got some real depth in our sprinters at the moment. They'll all assemble at strength and for what will be a terrific race on the fourth of January.
Yeah, looking forward to all that coming up over the next couple of weeks at and appreciate your time. Thanks so much. I have a great weekend and yeah, all the best, all all the punts and tips across the weekend.
Yeah, good on Adam. And it's all people out there, your listeners who have supported OPI through his career. I know he's very grateful. You know, he's sort of said that yesterday's one of the things he's going to miss most is an interaction with the public. Yeah.
Great, and he sent he had done very well with that Aiden. Thanks for your time. Aid and Robby. They're from tab track Side, who is also Opie Boston's manager for the last stages of his career. So yeah, great insight there from mar Aid and Robley out of TB track sides on the career. The thirty or so year career of Opie Boston finishing up as announced yesterday twenty nine past eight here on the All Sport Breakfast, we are not far away from our all Star panel gathering to discussed and dissect some of these sporting issues of the week, so we will be joined by Clay Wilson and Matt Buck right after this.
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