Zac Lloyd after winning the “Crown Oaks” on the David Payne-trained Proxima Dea (Tarzino) (Picture: Victoria Racing Club)
Zac Lloyd is having a magnificent season and midway through last week was leading the whole of Australia’s metro table with 42 wins to James McDonald’s 39 and William Pike’s 38, although these figures would have changed on Saturday November 14.
Llloyd had achieved it at a strike rate of 24.10%.
There isn’t actually an Australian Jockeys Championship as such, rather each racing jurisdiction has its own premiership.
The racing is also categorised into Metro, Provincial, Country And Picnic racing with the total of all categories falling under “All”.
However, the champions are the ones who have the most metro winners.
Lloyd was leading the New South Wales premiership.
He had had 60 wins countrywide (All) the whole year, 42 metro and 18 country.
He was in third place in the countrywide wins of All categories behind Ben Thompson on 63 and William Pike on 61.
He led the New South Wales Premiership with 57 wins to Aaron Bullock’s 47 and Jean van Overmeire’s 40.
He led the New South Wales metro standings on 39 to James McDonald’s 29 and Tommy Berry and Nash Rawiller’s 24 apiece.
Lloyd’s strike rate for all of his starts this season is 26.91% and he has earnings of Aus$10,144,930.
He has had two Gr 1 wins this season and they have both been on the horse Proxima Dea, trained by great ex-pat South African trainer David Payne. He won the Gr 1 Spring Champion Stakes on her at Royal Randwick and the Gr 1 VRC Oaks (Crown Oaks) on her at Flemington on November 5.
