| Damian Lane |
| Age: 31 |
| Background: One of the leading riders in Australia, Damian Lane achieved his 500th career win on the eve of his 21st birthday in 2015. Apprenticed to his father Michael in 2009, he had his first race ride at age 16 and notched more than 100 wins in Western Australia before transferring his indentures to the Melbourne-based training partnership of Matthew Ellerton and Simon Zahra during the 2010/11 season. He graduated to the senior riding ranks during the 2012/13 season when he broke through the 100 wins barrier for the first time (106 wins) at a strike rate of 16%. He repeated that achievement in the 2013/14 season with 105 wins and finished third in the Victorian Jockeys’ Championship. His maiden Group 1 victory came atop Trust In A Gust in the 2014 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Lane undertook a short-term contract in Hong Kong at the end of the 2014/15 season for five wins and has since rode with considerable success in Japan. In 2019, Lane won three out of four of Australian racing’s ‘Grand Slam’, securing the Golden Slipper aboard Kiamichi, Caulfield Cup aboard Mer De Glace and W.S. Cox Plate with Lys Gracieux. His biggest wins in Hong Kong came aboard Win Marilyn in the 2022 Hong Kong Vase and Tastiera in the 2025 QEII Cup. In 2023, he won a maiden Tokyo Yushun aboard Tastiera. He is enjoying a fruitful 2025, and among his highlights this year includes partnering Treasurethe Moment to win the Australian Oaks, Memsie Stakes and Vinery Stud Stakes as well as a first Tenno Sho Spring triumph with Redentor. |
| Notable Wins Include:Hong Kong Vase (2022 Win Marilyn), QEII Cup (2025 Tastiera), Tokyo Yushun (2023 Tastiera), Arima Kinen (2019 Lys Gracieux), Takarazuka Kinen (2019 Lys Gracieux), Caulfield Cup (2019 Mer De Glace), Golden Slipper Stakes (2019 Kiamichi, 2025 Marhoona), W.S. Cox Plate (2019 Lys Gracieux), VRC Oaks (2024 Treasurethe Moment), Caulfield Guineas (2024 Private Life, 2025 Autumn Boy), C F Orr Stakes (2023 Jacquinot), Victoria Mile (2019 Normcore), Mile Championship (2022 Serifos), Tenno Sho Spring (2025 Redentor), Memsie Stakes (2018 Humidor, 2025 Treasurethe Moment), Toorak Handicap (2017 Tosen Stardom, 2018 Land Of Plenty), Australian Oaks (2022 El Patroness, 2023 Pennyweka, 2025 Treasurethe Moment), Australian Derby (2017 Jon Snow, 2025 Aeliana), JPNG1 Teio Sho (2019 Omega Perfume). |
| Hong Kong wins (as of 1 December): 11 |
| 24/25 Season | |||||
| Nationality | : AUS | No. of Wins | : 1 | Total Rides | : 3 |
| Stakes won | : $20,280,000 | No. of 2nds | : 0 | Win % | : 33.33% |
| No. of 3rds | : 1 | ||||
| No. of 4ths | : 0 | ||||
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