Last week there was a one-way street over the jockey title, but the remaining six meetings set the stage for one of the great battles between Zac Purton and João Moreira.
Parton won eight winners in seven days, taking the lead for the first time since mid-April. Following the June 19th quartet, he achieved one success in Happy Valley in the middle of the week and a hat-trick in Sha Tin. Saturday.
The treble occurred in the absence of Moreira, who was stuck following an arrhythmia, but the Brazilians decided to return to Happy Valley on Tuesday night and push their rivals to the line.
Parton and Moreira have won four titles each over an eight-year domination period, and this season’s stats will be an intriguing reading as each competes with each other.
Parton is slightly better than Moreira. His 129 winners came from 619 rides with a strike rate of 20.84 percent, while the Brazilian needed 641 rides to achieve 127 wins at 19.81 percent.
This was an important improvement area for Parton, who required 713 rides for 125 winners last season, at 17.53%, while Moreira separated 157 winners by 21.16%.
Huge improvers fight in quality sprints in Happy Valley
Parton has six less runners-up to Moreira (89 vs. 95), but this season he has finished 89 times with Moreira’s 61 times for the third time.
Even the total prize pool of the pair is neck and neck, and Parton is betting HK $ 175,517,715 to shade Moreira’s HK $ 175,290,090. In this campaign, each won once in Group 1. Moreira on the Glory Vase in Hong Kong Vase and Parton at the top of the Steward Cup Wyck.
But what happened in the last 82 meetings is almost meaningless in the last 6 meetings, and both jockeys have a complete book of eight rides working in Happy Valley at a rare meeting on Tuesday night. ..
Moreira returned to three rides for his biggest supporter, John Size, and won the consistent Special M, the Mysterious Drops of God, and the latest trial on an all-weather track for his debut. I got on the Fingers Cross.
Moreira also seems to have a chance to ride David Hall’s Great Times, a pair of Smoothies trained by Danny Shum Chap-shing dropping into the class, and Sunny Delight, the penultimate start.
Moreira tries to help fill the gap between Frankie Lore Fuchuen’s six wins in the trainer’s premiership race, but Parton says Lore when he’s 56 years old chasing his first championship. Climb on two strong chances.
Gorgeous vitality appears to have scored points after winning a dominant victory at the final start. Meanwhile, Lor’s trained debut, Youthful Deal, is also the winner of a trial that can have an immediate impact.
Like Moreira, Parton also climbs in hopes of winning the hole at the final start place getter, Never Toothoon, but Winwin trained by Manfred Mancaleon’s E-Legend and Francis Louis Kinwai. The fighter should also finish.
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