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South African-born jockey Chad Schofield (pictured) has been granted a one-day visiting jockey’s licence to ride at the Stewards’ Cup meeting on Sunday, 2 July.

The 29-year-old jockey is booked by trainer Tim Fitzsimmons to ride Golden Monkey in the second Leg of the Singapore Four-Year-Old Challenge, the Group 2 Stewards' Cup (1600m).

Born in Durban, Schofield followed in the footsteps of his father and ex-jockey Glyn, who rode in Singapore previously and won the 2011 Group 1 Singapore Airlines International Cup (2000m) astride Gitano Hernando, to make riding his career. Not long after debuting in Sydney in 2010 at the young age of 16, Schofield Jr. was crowned Sydney and New South Wales champion apprentice jockey in the 2011/2012 season before going on to become Melbourne's champion apprentice jockey in the 2012/2013 season.

In 13 years of riding, the British national has clocked in more than 550 winners, including four Group 1 wins, namely the 2013 WS Cox Plate aboard Shamus Award and three other Group 1 races in the following year: the Newmarket Handicap atop Lankan Rupee, the Champagne Stakes with Go Indy Go and the Queensland Derby on board Sonntag.

Schofield also enjoyed a successful stint in Hong Kong for seven years where he bagged six Group wins in more than 200 wins. His biggest success came aboard Singapore Sling in the 2018 Hong Kong Classic Cup before he returned to Sydney in late 2021.

Currently licensed by Racing New South Wales, Schofield sits in 14th position on 25 winners on the New South Wales Metropolitan jockeys' premiership this season. Besides Australia and Hong Kong, he has also ridden in Japan, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

He goes to scale at 54kgs.