The rider, who campaigned in the recently concluded Hong Kong season, has been booked to ride several runners for Justin Snaith as the latter tries to defend his champion trainer title in a very close-run race that has at least five potential winners.
De Melo finished 16th on the jockey log in Hong Kong - a notoriously difficult place to break through as a newly arrived jockey - with 21 wins from 418 rides.
The jockey roster for the next racing season in the Chinese enclave has yet to be announced, so De Melo's immediate future plans are still up in the air.
Though declarations for Gold Cup day are only due on Thursday, Snaith generally makes his plans known well before deadline and has De Melo down to partner eight horses at the 10race meeting.
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