Purton Edges Ahead
Jolly Banner showed plenty of vim for a veteran as he battled past younger rivals to win the Gr3 Premier Cup Handicap at Sha Tin on Sunday
21st June 2020
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Jolly Banner showed plenty of vim for a veteran as he battled past younger rivals to win the Gr3 Premier Cup Handicap at Sha Tin on Sunday
Zac Purton will start Sunday’s 11-race Sha Tin card with a precious three-win lead in the title race after snaring a treble on Wednesday at the same venue
Zac Purton is hoping to make hay under the Sha Tin floodlights on Wednesday with Joao Moreira sitting out the all-weather track fixture due to a riding suspension
The big two carved up the races with merciless intent, each attempting to beat the other to a fourth Hong Kong champion jockey title
No-one aged over 70 will be allowed at Irish tracks in the initial stages – ruling out the attendance of successful veteran trainers such as Jim Bolger, Jessica Harrington and Dermot Weld.
Joao Moreira and Zac Purton continued their enthralling back-and-forth contest for the jockeys’ championship with a double each at Happy Valley on Wednesday.
Joao Moreira outscored jockeys’ championship rival Zac Purton three to one at Sha Tin on Sunday, a haul that left the three-time Hong Kong champions locked on 117 wins apiece
Zac Purton and Joao Moreira continued their back-and-forth battle for the Hong Kong champion jockey title at Happy Valley on Wednesday
Joao Moreira outpointed Zac Purton three wins to zero at Sha Tin on Saturday
The Hong Kong jockey championship has been a nice sideshow attraction for SA punters starved of local racing
The Hong Kong Jockey Club may charter a jet to get their two jockeys back from the Dubai World Cup meeting in time for Sunday’s meeting
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
JP van der Merwe is not the only guilty party in the matter. In simple terms, he is the only rider to have exercised the NHA’s offer of an Acknowledgement Of Guilt and moved on with his life
Andrew Fortune made it three winners on the Family Day public holiday as Tenango breezed home to win the Gr3 feature
The son of Master Of My Fate will likely side-step stablemate Eight On Eighteen in the Daily News and go via the Greyville 1900 and Cup Trial into the big one on 5 July
