Zac Purton

Zachary Zac Purton is an Australian jockey, born on 3 January 1983, who has won more races than any other rider in Hong Kong racing history. He spent his childhood and teenage years mostly in Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales mid-north coast, left school at fourteen and began with the local trainer Trevor Hardy. He is married to Nicole, daughter of the Australian Hall of Fame jockey Jim Cassidy, and they have two children. Purton has won the Hong Kong Jockeys' Championship on seven occasions and the Hong Kong Derby twice, with Luger in 2015 and Massive Sovereign in 2024. His Hong Kong Cup win on Time Warp in 2017 made him only the third jockey, after Gerald Mosse and João Moreira, to win all four of Hong Kong's December international races.