King Oberon gets up to give Luke Ferraris a vital win (Picture: HKJC)
Luke Ferraris showed why he is lying second on the Hong Kong jockey club at Happy Valley today when scoring on the Douglas Whyte-trained King Oberon, paying a Tote dividend of 21.
King Oberon came from a wide draw of nine in the Class event over 1200 and he was then caught wide in midfield. However, Ferraris never panicked and just allowed the horse to relax and use his big stride. The si-year-old found plenty in the straight and stretched away to a 0,75 length victory, his second in succession, both of them under Ferraris from wide draws.
Ferraris is on 14 wins for the season, one ahead of Hugh Bowman, and he is thus in the hunt to win a personal first ever berth in the Longines IJC (International Jockeys Challenge) as leading jockey (Purton has already qualified as champion jockey).
Lyle Hewitson is on nine wins.
Zac Purton is way out in front on 34 wins.
