Michael Dee
Trish Dunell Photography
Expatriate New Zealand jockey Michael Dee will partner Consensus in the Gr.1 Zabeel Classic (2000m) at Ellerslie on Boxing Day.
Now firmly established in Melbourne, Dee has answered the call from the mare’s connections after Alysha Collett copped a suspension at Ellerslie last Sunday.
She defended a charge of slowing the pace aboard Cinematic to the degree that it caused interference to other runners, but was deemed to be guilty and was suspended for seven days from December 22.
Dee’s Ellerslie rides also include Princess Rihanna in the Gr.2 Cambridge Stud Eight Carat Classic (1600m) and the two-year-old Nirvana In Fire.