A veteran jockey has died of cancer just three weeks after riding his latest winner. Salee Saad, who was 53, began his career in 1991 and had ridden 334 winners in his home country of Malaysia.
News of his death, reported by turfonline.com, has shocked the community in the south east Asia region. The site said he had passed away early on Saturday after a short stay in hospital in Selangor.
Just 20 days earlier he had been riding at the Perak Turf Club meeting at Ipoh racecourse where he rode a winner on the Kevin Coetzee-trained Thundergod. He had ridden the same horse to his last victory of 2025 in December.
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Salee recorded his first big race win in the 2007 Penang Gold Cup. He also won the Sultan/Perak Gold Vase, a local ‘classic’ race, twice and the Tunko Gold Cup.
He met his New Zealand-born wife Sharee Hamilton while he was still an apprentice and they were married in 2000. They have two children.
Hamilton, who worked as a track rider before working as a stable supervisor under a number of trainers, was granted a training licence in 2015, becoming the only female racehorse trainer in Malaysia.
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