Outstanding jockey James Orman secured two premierships at the same time at Ipswich racetrack and soon set his sights on the highest of goals for the new season ahead.

Orman won two races last Friday to comfortably claim the Ipswich jockeys’ premiership for the 2020-2021 season that runs from August to July by five wins.

Up-and-coming apprentice Kyle Wilson-Taylor was second on the overall table meaning he won the apprentices’ title.

The first of Orman’s two wins, a humdinger on Red Wave, presented the trainers’ premiership to Tony and Maddysen Sears.

It was the first Ipswich title for Team Sears, breaking a run of six in a row for Tony Gollan who finished third this season.

Orman was keen to see where his name would appear on the honour board sitting on the floor outside the stewards’ room at Ipswich racetrack.

“I’ll have my name under Jim Byrne, which is good,” Orman said.

Jim Byrne has his name on the board nine times as the leading jockey and once as the champion apprentice at Ipswich.

Orman said his three goals for the season were to win the jockeys’ premierships for Queensland, Ipswich and the Sunshine Coast and he was delighted to win all three.

“That was the three goals that I wanted, so three ticked off,” he said.

“Next season I just want to just keep riding winners and try to get in the top three in the metropolitan premiership. (This season he finished fifth).

“I want to win a Group 1 too, which I haven’t. I ran second this year and was relegated to third on protest.”

Sweet Deal was second past the post but was demoted to third in the Group 1 Tattersalls Tiara (1400m) on June 26 at Eagle Farm.

“I’ve had a couple of placings so my next big goal is winning a Group 1,” Orman said.

“Whether it happens next year or not I don’t know but I can’t wait to win one because they’re hard to win and heaps of people have won one except for me.”

Orman couldn’t quite put his finger on what he likes about riding at Ipswich.

“It’s a funny little track. I get plenty of good rides here so I enjoy coming here,” he said.

“It’s a bit of a momentum track. It’s pretty fair; you can come from anywhere if your horse is good enough.”       

Red Wave ($4.40) was good enough to charge late and deny Yes We’re Ready ($19) to win the Carlton Mid Handicap (1200m) by a short half-head with Baronial ($7) a length away in third.

“That sealed the premiership for Tony Sears too so they were very happy too,” Orman said.

“Very green horse but got lots of improvement and a good win.”

While he hugged the rails on Red Wave and just got the win, Orman swooped down the middle of the track on Prinny’s Success and won comfortably.

Trained by Robert Heathcote, Prinny’s Success ($6) won the TAB Handicap (1670m) by half a length from Hopeful Star ($7) with a similar margin to Skye And Me ($31) in third.

“I’ve had a bit of success on that horse and it was good to get a win for Rob Heathcote again,” Orman said.

“I’ve won three or four races on that horse now.

“There’s lots of owners and they’re really nice people. They all message me every now and then and you get a thrill out of winning for those sorts of fellas for sure.

“A lot of the time they are small–time owners and they’re just normal people, down to earth, happy people, so it’s good to get a winner for them.”

The first race for the 2021-2022 racing season is tomorrow.