How many Melbourne Cups has Zac Purton won?

How many Melbourne Cups has Zac Purton won?
Zac Purton will ride Absurde in the 2023 Melbourne Cup.

Zac Purton is without a doubt the number one jockey in Hong Kong and is one of the most in-demand jockeys across Asia, but how many times has he actually won the Melbourne Cup?

Zac Purton has ridden in six Melbourne Cup’s, with his best result coming in 2017 when he partnered Max Dynamite to third place.


Zac Purton Recent Melbourne Cup Rides

Year Placing Horse Trainer Barrier Weight Odds Margin
2023 7/23 Absurde Willie Mullins 8 53kg $9 5.45L
2018 4/24 Finche Chris Waller 15 54kg $26 3.5L
2017 3/23 Max Dynamite Willie Mullins 2 54kg $20 2.9L
2015 13/24 Fame Game Yoshitada Munakata 12 57kg $5 5.5L
2014 22/22 Admire Rakti Tomoyuki Umeda 7 58.5kg $5.50 72.95L
2009 12/23 Munsef Ian Williams 4 53kg $51 6.3L

Who will Zac Purton ride in the 2024 Melbourne Cup?

Zac Purton will ride the Chris Waller-trained Land Legend in the Melbourne Cup.

Land Legend assured his qualification in the Melbourne Cup with his victory in the 2024 Group 1 Metropolitan.

Land Legend

Land Legend (18)

T: Chris Waller
J: Zac Purton (53kg)
  • Age: 5YO
  • Color: Chestnut
  • Sex: Gelding
  • Sire: Galileo (IRE)
  • Dam: Landikusic (IRE)

Land Legend 2024 Melbourne Cup Odds

Win: +2000

Place: +375

Best odds at Playup


Career stats for Land Legend

  • Career: 13: 3-2-1
  • Flemington: 0: 0-0-0
  • Distance: 0: 0-0-0
  • Wet: 2: 0-0-1
  • Good: 7: 2-1-0
  • Group 1: 2: 1-0-1
  • Win %: 23%
  • Place %: 46%

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2024 Melbourne Cup Field

No. Silks Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Odds
1 Vauban Silks Vauban Willie Mullins William Buick 11 55.5kg +500
2 Buckaroo Silks Buckaroo Chris Waller Joao Moreira 21 54.5kg +400
3 Circle of Fire Silks Circle Of Fire Ciaron Maher Mark Zahra 24 54.5kg +3300
4 Warp Speed Silks Warp Speed Noboru Takagi Akira Sugawara 3 54.5kg +4000
5 Kovalica Silks Kovalica Chris Waller Damian Lane 17 53.5kg +2500
6 Sharp 'n' Smart Silks Sharp ‘N’ Smart Graeme & Deborah Rogerson Michael Dee 15 53.5kg +7000
7 Just Fine Silks Just Fine Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott Jye McNeil 13 53kg +3300
8 Land Legend Silks Land Legend Chris Waller Zac Purton 18 53kg +2000
9 Absurde Silks Absurde Willie Mullins Kerrin McEvoy 7 52.5kg +1000
10 Athabascan Silks Athabascan John O’Shea & Tom Charlton Zac Lloyd 2 52kg +4000
11 Knight's Choice Silks Knight’s Choice John Symons & Sheila Laxon Robbie Dolan 6 51.5kg +15000
12 Okita Soushi Silks Okita Soushi Ciaron Maher Jamie Kah 10 51kg +1600
13 Onesmoothoperator Silks Onesmoothoperator Brian Ellison Craig Williams 12 51kg +700
14 Zardozi Silks Zardozi James Cummings Andrea Atzeni 4 51kg +1300
15 Sea King Silks Sea King Harry Eustace Hollie Doyle 1 50.5kg +850
16 Valiant King Silks Valiant King Chris Waller Craig Newitt 22 50.5kg +6000
17 Fancy Man Silks Fancy Man Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald Ron Stewart 19 50kg +10000
18 Interpretation Silks Interpretation Ciaron Maher Teo Nugent 14 50kg +1800
19 Manzoice Silks Manzoice Chris Waller Declan Bates 8 50kg +8000
20 Mostly Cloudy Silks Mostly Cloudy Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young Karis Teetan 16 50kg +10000
21 Positivity Silks Positivity Andrew Forsman Winona Costin 20 50kg +10000
22 Saint George Silks Saint George Ciaron Maher Tyler Schiller 9 50kg +3300
23 The Map Silks The Map Dan Clarken & Oopy MacGillivray Rachel King 23 50kg +2500
24 Trust In You Silks Trust In You Bruce Wallace & Grant Cooksley Mark Du Plessis 5 50kg +15000

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