DAMIEN THORNTON

With a background in equestrian and raised on a farm outside of Geelong, Damien Thornton began his career in 2011. Damien Thornton had an immediate impact on the Victorian jockey ranks riding 25 metropolitan winners and in 2013 took an opportunity to move to Sydney and ride for Rosehill based trainer Gerald Ryan. It was for the Ryan stable that Thornton claimed his first stakes success when partnering two-year-old Time For War to win the 2014 Group 2 Pago Pago Stakes going on to win the 2015 Group 3 Vamos Stakes on Vibrant Rouge for his father Glenn. In 2016 Thornton moved to Adelaide to become the stable rider for leading trainer Tony McEvoy with good success.