New Zealand jockey Ashlee Mundy formerly based on the Gold Coast, has died after a fall in her home country. Picture: Kate Czerny Source: News Limited
GOLD Coast-based jockey Ashlee Mundy was a tireless, hard worker who did things her way.
She was not a follower, she carved her own way in the world and did it without relying on others.
That's what made her so admired in the Queensland racing industry, according to the Gold Coast Bulletin.
Gold Coast trackwork was "numb" yesterday as news broke the popular 26-year-old jockey had died in a Dunedin hospital shortly after 5am Queensland time.
Her boyfriend, Gold Coast trackwork rider Brad Frew, close friend and fellow jockey Laura Cheshire and her family were at her bedside.
Frew prayed his mercy dash across the Tasman would have a happy ending. Instead it was a trip to say goodbye.
Mundy sustained serious head injuries after a horror fall at the once-a-year Kurow Cup meeting in North Otago on Sunday.
She was airlifted to hospital, but there was little doctors could do.
Frew, speaking from Dunedin yesterday, said Mundy was doing what she loved most when her life was so tragically cut short.
"She will be sadly missed throughout the racing industry in both New Zealand and Australia and, mostly, by all her amazing friends. But, on a kind note, she died doing what she loved most," Frew said.
Kiwi-born Mundy rode more than 230 winners in a career that began in 2004. She first came to the Gold Coast in 2009.
She spent three months there before returning across the Tasman. But Mundy came back in 2011 and made Surfers Paradise her home.
Apprentice Tegan Harrison said Mundy's independence was admirable.
"She had her opinion on something and she didn't let people change her mind on things and she was a very strong person," Harrison said.
Leading trainer Bevan Laming, who was a father figure to Mundy in Australia, admired her hard work.
"She used to ride work at the Gold Coast and then would come out and ride work for me at Jacobs Well," Laming said.
"She was a very good worker, I never had a problem with her. She was the type of girl who had no enemies."
Cheshire said Mundy had a drive and determination possessed by only a few jockeys.
"She was a true horsewoman, but her riding talent was never truly showcased in Australia due to lack of opportunities," Cheshire said.
"Ashlee left the Gold Coast the only way she knew how, as a winner on the Gold Coast-trained Sand Biscuit."
Mundy rode sprinter Fintorro to victory at Timaru on Friday.
Young apprentice Rikki Jamieson said Mundy had been a mentor.
"She taught me a lot in my early days and she pretty well looked after me in the jockeys' room," she said.
Mundy's funeral will be held in Westport, New Zealand, at 4pm on Friday.
A service at the Clear Island Waters Catholic Church on the Gold Coast will be held to coincide with the funeral at 1pm before a wake at the Gold Coast Turf Club at 2pm.
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