Tim Fitzsimmons is keeping the Committee's Prize ride on stable star Golden Monkey in the family.
The Australian trainer has not taken very long to pick relative newcomer Jaden Lloyd as the jockey to fill in for his cousin Chad Schofield in the Group 3 race over 1,600m on March 9.
It was the only one of Golden Monkey's four big-race targets that the Sydney-based Schofield could not take up outside the Group 3 Fortune Bowl (1,400m) on Feb 11, Group 2 EW Barker Trophy (1,400m) on April 21 and Group 1 Kranji Mile (1,600m) on May 18.
Fitzsimmons had been on the lookout, but the search ended straight after Golden Monkey bolted up in the Fortune Bowl.
The two riders' close pedigree their mothers are sisters - was, however, more of a coincidence than a selection factor.
"Jaden rode well on the weekend. I'm keeping it in the family, he's Chad's cousin," said Fitzsimmons.
"We had to decide on somebody, it'll be a good opportunity for him." Unlike Schofield son of retired jockey Glyn - who was at his second Kranji whistle stop (first one was at Golden Monkey's Group 2 Stewards' Cup win in 2023), Lloyd was at his first day of a five-month Singapore stint.
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