[2] Jamie Kah's parents John and Karen are former speed skaters who represented Australia at the Winter Olympics.
[3] She grew up in Mount Pleasant in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, where she began working at a friend's stables when she was 13.
[16] Kah was seriously injured in a fall during a race at Flemington on 11 March 2023, and spent several days in an induced coma at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
[18] After months of rehabilitation and weeks of trackwork, she returned to racing with four rides at Randwick on 19 August.
[19] For some years Kah and Clayton Douglas,[20] a fellow jockey and trainer, had a property on the Mornington Peninsula.