{"id":102041,"date":"2025-10-26T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102041\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:37:12","slug":"j-macs-heartfelt-prebble-gesture-racing-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/102041\/","title":{"rendered":"J-Mac&#8217;s heartfelt Prebble gesture | RACING.COM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>James McDonald showed just how tight the jockey community is in Australia when, just hours after winning a fourth consecutive Cox Plate, he and wife Katey held off celebrations so they could share the moment with injured jockey Tom Prebble in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJockeys always rally around their own and there have been plenty that have been in to visit Tom, but I just thought it was a lovely thing for James and Katey to do,\u201d said Victorian Jockey\u2019s Association chief executive Matt Hyland on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was absolutely fantastic. They rang (father) Brett, then texted Tom and said, \u2018we are coming in\u2019. No doubt it was a surprise, but it just shows what a great couple they are particularly after such a big day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old former champion apprentice was seriously injured in a race day fall six weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James McDonald showed just how tight the jockey community is in Australia when, just hours after winning a fourth consecutive Cox Plate, he and wife Katey held off celebrations so they could share the moment with Tom Prebble in hospital \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EO4jQK1F6o\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/EO4jQK1F6o<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/19snMCzPrG\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/19snMCzPrG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Racing.com (@Racing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Racing\/status\/1982252125284401371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 26, 2025<\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; James McDonald showed just how tight the jockey community is in Australia when, just hours after winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59255,13829,111,139,69,4579,213,74519],"class_list":{"0":"post-102041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cox-plate","9":"tag-james-mcdonald","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-racing-com","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tom-prebble"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}