Thank you very much. It’s something I will never forget. Zac began his jockey career when he won the Brisbane jockeys’ premiership as an apprentice in 2003. Hopefully, we can heal the wound this year.”32-year old Hong Kong based Australian Purton has described himself as a bit of a battler in the industry. In the back of all our minds today as we wear our flamboyant hats and clutch our plastic flutes of champagne are the events that overshadowed last year’s Melbourne Cup carnival.2014’s race quickly turned from celebration to horror with the news that the favourite, Admire Ratki, had died in the stalls just minutes after finishing 73-lengths. It's the biggest celebration of human greed there is. Purton rode three winners to Moreira's two on Sunday's program at Sha Tin and the Australian rider holds a six-win lead over the Brazilian with only three meetings of the season remaining. Since then, there have been 127 horse deaths at race tracks and thousands of "disappearances", according to the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses. After walking across the line, the horse then died of a heart attack just minutes later, his death caught on camera and replayed on the evening news, shocking the nation.“When horses have heart attacks – and a catastrophic one like that – they normally collapse during the running of the race,” he said.“They drop dead underneath you. On one hand the dark memory of last year – the death of not just Admire Ratki, but that of Araldo, who shied when a young child waved a flag in the horse’s face leapt over the fence and shattering his hind cannon bone, resulting in him being put down.Many at the time vowed to forsake the celebrations this year.But then we look at men like like Zac Purton, their dedication and devotion – his clear belief Admire Ratki saved his life – and the industry employing tens of thousands of people who truly care for and love these champions and we take a breath, a sip of champagne and find joy in the event that brings us together.“He is so dedicated to his riding,” she says. Not only Twitter which horse racing clubs should know by now is only an online substitute for the racing pages of a newspaper.
Zac Purton anticipating plenty of competition in title defence Jockey was crowned Hong Kong champion for a fourth time. By James Burn UPDATED 9:10AM, JUL 8 2019. ABC Reporter Dan Conifer caught up with expat Zac Purton who's gone from high school drop-out to one of the best jockeys in the world. He initially struggled to find his place in the world.“We took him to doctors in Mt Gambier and Sydney,” his Dad Phil told In the tough world of racing Purton found it difficult to make ends meet, at times sleeping in his car but after moving to Hong Kong he found success, being described in a recent Purton, who is married with one young daughter, has slipped back into country that fills him with so many haunting memories.He told Fairfax Media that in preparation for the race today he’ll hardly eat to carry as little weight as possible with just two sips of water for breakfast, then a mango for lunch and a snack of three wheat crackers and a tomato, dinner will a handful of rice and 100 grams of white fish.If he wins on Fame Game he will give a silent salute to last year’s champion before he jumps back aboard a plane straight back to Hong Kong to race tomorrow night at Happy Valley racecourse.It’s a difficult thing to correlate. Purton said at the time it was then he began to have suspicions all was not well.“I didn’t know it was as bad as it was,” he said. Zac Purton is all but assured of his fourth Hong Kong jockeys' premiership after Joao Moreira incurred another suspension. For him to stay on his feet as long as he did, getting me back safe and well, I owe him a lot.
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