Keagen de Melo scores his tenth win on the island (Picture: HKJC)
Graduates of the South African Jockey Academy (SAJA) won four of the nine races at Happy Valley in Kong yesterday and nearly made it five when Lyle Hewitson went close in the last.
Keagan de Melo reached double figures in the island, his tenth win, when scoring on the Caspar Fownes-trained New Zealand-bred Tivaci gelding Super Contented in the second race, a class 5 event over 1650m.
The horse, paying 11.00 on the Tote, showed a good turn of foot from a position just backward of midfield in a 12 horse field to win by a neck.
Luke Ferraris scored in the fourth race, a class 4 handicap over 1200m, on the Cody Mo-trained Australian-bred Eurozone gelding Togepi.
He extracted a flying finish from the back of the field and they got up by ahort-head paying 13.00 on the Tote.
Ferarris is now in 7th place on the log with 13 wins for the season, one ahead of Hewitson.
Mautitian-born SAJA graduate Karis Teetan scored a double, including one for another SAJA graduate who now trains, Douglas Whyte.
Teetan is on 26 wins for the season and is in 2nd place on the log, 13 wins behind leader Zac Purton.
Whyte had had 17 wins and is in 5th place on the trainers log.
