Jye McNeil

Jye McNeil, born in 1994, is an Australian jockey based in Victoria who grew up in the small town of Koondrook on the Murray River and began his riding career in 2011. His first Group One win came on Kings Will Dream in the 2019 Turnbull Stakes. In 2020 he won the Melbourne Cup on Twilight Payment, leading throughout the race, and he also won the Australian Cup on Homesman and the Toorak Handicap on I'm Thunderstruck in 2021. By mid-October 2026 he had ridden 1,214 winners, four of them in Group One races. He is married to fellow jockey Jessica Payne, and the couple have a son born in 2020.