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Muzi Yeni
Muzi Yeni (born 6 December 1986 in Durban) is a South African thoroughbred horse racing jockey. To date he has won Numerous Grade 1 races, with 1788 career wins (as off 24 May 2021). He finished second in the 2018/19 SA Jockey Championship riding 215 winners, narrowly losing by 3 wins, to Lyle Hewitson.[1] Yeni won his first race in the 12th start of his career. He rode Storm King to victory for Mike de Kock at Clairwood in November 2003.[2] Yeni's first Grade 1 victory came in the President's Champions Challenge over 2000m at Turffontein in April 2011. He rode Happy Landing to victory, which was a big outsider at 55/1.[3] Muzi Yeni won the Grade 2 Peermont Emperors Palace Charity Mile at Turffontein Racecourse in November 2018. Yeni rode Coral Fever to victory, winning R150,000 for his charity, Khangezile Primary School.[4] Early careerYeni was educated at Hunt Road Secondary, before earning his matric at the South African Jockey Academy. As an apprentice he rode 75 winners. In the 2007/08 season, his first as a fully fledged jockey out of the academy, he rode 36 winners. The following season he rode 57, and 97 in the 2009/10 season. He then broke into the top 10 in the 2010/2011 season, finishing third on the national log with 133 winners.[5] National HonoursMuzi Yeni rode for Team SA for the first time in the International Jockeys’ Challenge in 2010, where he subsequently won the Turffontein leg.[6] He represented Team SA in Premier Gateway Challenge in Singapore in September 2018.[7][8] References
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