Zac Purton was hero and villain tonight at the Valley! He delivered a quite brilliant ride on my best of the night Insayshable to win the seventh race. Again, the $2.20 price obtained was less than my rated price, so there’s a heap of money being placed on Zac’s top mounts, which is making finding the “right” price a challenge, but it’s another best home.

Purton turned villain in some respects when rode Mr Picasso to beat The Createth in race 5. The Createth opened a superb $13.00 & $3.80 with the corporates and was smashed in betting accordingly and missed by a neck margin from getting it done.

Powermax and Thou Shall Sing both ran well, but were just pipped by Flying Force late in the race. It was a visually extraordinary win from Flying Force and he was considered a strong contender, but I felt the map might be against him tonight. He overcame that and highlighted a red hot Sweet In Defeat review of Happy Valley (M2). Entered into that SID “Black Book” were four runners who have all won at their next starts:

Country Star: 1st @ $2.40

Flying Force: 1st @ $12.85

Red Warrior: 1st @ $2.50

Land Grant: 1st @ $3.55

Speaking of maps, on first look I underestimated the overall speed of race 6 and this contributed to finding out the fitness fresh-up of Zero Hedge. I’ll assess the race further and give more thoughts via Sweet In Defeat on Monday.

So overall a night where a small percentage was lost, with a couple of typical Happy Valley margins not going our way. Long term for the season I really like the shape of the form, so that should even out for us.

Join me for racing at Sha Tin on Sunday!

Cheers