IF former Queensland jockey Glenn Boss was the happiest man in Australia yesterday Jim Cassidy may have been the unhappiest.
Boss secured a late engagement for Lee Freedman's A$2 million Golden Slipper Stakes winner Flying Spur when a Supreme Court bid by Cassidy to have a six-month disqualification quashed failed.
'It's the greatest thrill of my life,' Boss declared.
'I can hardly believe my luck to have got the ride and to have won the Golden Slipper.
'It's fantastic.' Ironically, Boss was also called to the Australian Jockey Club offices on Friday - along with Cassidy, his younger brother Larry and Kevin Moses - to give evidence in a race-fixing inquiry.
But while Boss, Larry Cassidy and Moses appeared, Jim Cassidy, who was said to be acting on legal advice, did not.
That led to Cassidy's disqualification and the engagement of Boss on Flying Spur.
