Seven months after returning to the starting gates, Armidale jockey Geoffrey Snowden has ridden his first TAB winner.
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In December 2014, Snowden took a fall and broke his collarbone and a complication to the injury resulted in frozen shoulder syndrome.
Snowden’s recovery took two years and he returned to the track in a barrier trial before lining up in a non-TAB meet.
On Sunday in Grafton, Snowden was successful in riding a winner, the Robert Knight-trained Whakatane, his first TAB victory since before the injury.
“I rode a couple of winners at a couple of non-TAB meetings back and a few placings but Sunday was my first TAB meeting back at the Grafton carnival so that was a good thing for me,” he said.
“For a personal thing, it is more exposure and people see you're back and riding a winner on a TAB day.”
He said it was a win with a personal connection for him.
“Robert is my brother-in-law so I ride that horse all the time and it is a horse that he has not long purchased and Sunday was the first time that everything suited the horse, the track suited it, the distance suited it,” he said.