Zac Purton rode seven winners in ten rides at the ten race meeting at Sha Tin in Hong Kong today.
Harry Bentley won all three of the other races at the meeting.
The world record for the most winners on a single day, on a single racecourse, is believed to be held by Panamanian-born jockey Eddie Castro. On June 4, 2005 at Calder, Florida, Castro rode nine winners on a 13-race card; in so doing, he equalled the feat achieved by Chris Cantley on October 31, 1987, but Cantley rode five winners at Aqueduct, New York in the afternoon and four at Meadowlands, New Jersey in the evening for his total of nine.
On September 6, 2013, Brazilian-born jockey Joao Moreira rode eight winners from as many rides on a nine-race card at Kranji, Singapore; he was ineligible for the remaining race on the card, an apprentices’ event.
Moreira has also ridden eight at a meeting in Hong Kong before.
A number of riders have ridden eight winners in a day.
The longest winning streak is 12 by: Sir Gordon Richards (1904-86) (one race at Nottingham on 2 October, six out of six at Chepstow on 3 October and the first five races at the second day of the Chepstow meeting on October 5) in 1933; and by Pieter Stroebel at Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), 7 June-7 July 1958.
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