Mickaëlle Michel: Rides and Tips This Week

It started on Friday night at Greyville, where she won the Pinnacle Stakes on Narina Trogon at 5/1. Then on Sunday at Turffontein she won the first two races: Epiphany at 25/1 for Mike and Mathew de Kock, and High Fidelity at 17/10.

So she was the jockey to follow, even though none of our picks were on her. Our Turffontein results and Greyville results have every race.

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Miss Smiley is the most interesting of the four. She is rated 69 in the fillies maiden and runs from a handy draw, although Peach Cobbler, our pick, is rated 13 points higher.

Also, Mordechai gets in with only 52kg in the MR 101 Handicap for Justin Snaith. He was sixth last time, but light weights win plenty of these. See our Kenilworth tips for the full fields.

After Kenilworth, she has bookings at Fairview on Wednesday and the Vaal on Thursday. One of the Vaal rides is Trombolines for the de Kock yard, in the MR 108 Handicap.

We will add those rides here as we preview each meeting.

Mickaëlle Michel is a French jockey who has been based in South Africa since late 2025, as iRace reported in June 2026. Then she won the Grade 1 Daily News 2000 at Greyville on Star Major, and iRace called her the first female jockey to win a South African classic. She was also France’s leading female rider in 2018. In Japan, she also rode 30 winners from 267 rides, a record for a foreign jockey on the NAR circuit.