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No fly-by nighter, Joao Moreira to call Sydney home for six weeks

The champion Brazilian jockey wants to ride at more than just the big meetings during his autumn carnival stint and the Asian Racing Review team believe that will hold him in good stead.

Adrian Webber

Keiba Diary: Japanese contingent sets sights on Saudi Arabia

Christophe Lemaire's new record, some Joao Moreira magic and a concerted Saudi Cup meeting raid all feature in Adrian Webber's run-down of JRA news from home and abroad.

郭米高

【搞錯隔離】方嘉柏：莫雷拉搞混了 布文將策「多巴先生」遠征卡塔爾

有傳媒報導指莫雷拉將會策騎「多巴先生」出戰卡塔爾賽事，不過雷神已接受同一星期於東京的策騎聘約。

Michael Cox

Caspar Fownes: Hugh Bowman gets Senor Toba recall after Moreira mix-up

Media reported that Joao Moreira would team-up with Hong Kong's Senor Toba for the grey's upcoming Qatar assignment, but 'The Magic Man' is committed to ride in Tokyo that weekend.

Michael Cox

Joao Moreira booked for Japan’s Cafe Pharoah in the Saudi Cup

The champion Brazilian jockey is in top form at home and his ‘global farewell tour’ is gaining support after he was booked on a leading chance in the world’s richest race.

Michael Cox

São Paulo to Saudi Arabia: where to next for ‘happier’ Moreira?

Joao Moreira is dominating in Brazil and says he is refreshed ahead of the first stop on his farewell tour, the Saudi Cup International Jockeys Challenge, where he will compete against Frankie Dettori.

Michael Cox

Purton? Moore? McDonald? Let the unwinnable argument begin

Who, asks Michael Cox, is the best jockey in the world right now? It's an unwinnable argument fraught with subjectivity and recency bias, but let's wade in anyway.

David Morgan

Without his familiar foe Joao, Zac Purton has a rivalry with the record books

Zac Purton is the unstoppable force in the Hong Kong jockeys’ room this season but without a head-to-head rival he’s finding other ways to maintain focus.

Michael Cox

Joao Moreira set for shock Hong Kong International Races return on Japanese raiders

Four-time Hong Kong champion Joao Moreira hasn’t ridden since his aborted early season return but has committed to ride a pair of Japanese-trained hopes at next month’s flagship Sha Tin meeting.

David Morgan

Purton on Moreira: he’s a ‘phenomenal rider’

Hong Kong’s champion jockey Zac Purton talks on camera about what makes his greatest opponent such an incredible rival.

David Morgan

Beyond Purton and Moreira: Hong Kong season in review

The jockeys’ title race held the spotlight in Hong Kong but there was plenty to talk about on the fringes: rising South Africans, the evolution of the trainer ranks and a Golden disappointment.

David Morgan

Purton and Moreira: jockeys’ room perspectives

Derek Leung, Alexis Badel and Harry Bentley share their views as to what makes Hong Kong's ‘big two’, Zac Purton and Joao Moreira, so dominant.

Michael Cox

Zac v Joao: A ‘legacy-defining’ finale

And so it comes down to this. 132 season wins apiece, four jockeys' championships apiece. This legacy-defining season finale showdown also comes with a growing sense, however, that both Zac Purton and Joao Moreira may not be long for Sha Tin.