{"id":97923,"date":"2025-08-28T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97923\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T04:52:14","slug":"racing-royalty-immortalised-in-hall-of-fame-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/97923\/","title":{"rendered":"Racing royalty immortalised in Hall of Fame | Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">Purton grew up in Coffs Harbour and started his apprenticeship under trainer Trevor Hardy as a 14-year-old, riding his first winner at Armidale in 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">So skilled was the young jockey that within just seven years, Hong Kong offered him a riding contract. Since then, his star has grown in one of world racing\u2019s most competitive landscapes, with 2800 winners, 47 Group 1 wins, and eight Hong Kong premierships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">\u201cMost jockeys worldwide aspire to be successful in Hong Kong, and proving myself on the world stage was important to me. It means a lot to be recognised by my peers, it is very humbling.\u201d &#8211; Zac Purton<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">Purton sits comfortably among other jockey inductees of the modern era, such as Damien Oliver, Darren Beadman, Hugh Bowman, and Glen Boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">Joining Tapp, Moody and Purton as inductees are two outstanding racehorses.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW182253098 BCX8\">Mahogany could lay a strong claim to being the toughest and most versatile horse of the modern era. With eight Group 1 races to his name, he amazingly ran from 1000m to 2500m and from three to seven years of age, winning 19 of his 43 starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purton grew up in Coffs Harbour and started his apprenticeship under trainer Trevor Hardy as a 14-year-old, riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-97923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}