Last Updated: Thu 23 Oct 202

Racing TV's Anthony Dunkley spoke to Haggas at Kempton on Wednesday evening after she had saddled Zennor Storm to success.

He asked how the stable's Australian runners had taken their exertions and the daughter of the legendary Lester Piggott gave a blunt appraisal of Purton's efforts, suggesting he sat like a "big sissy".

"As far as I'm concerned, Lake Forest never had a race," she said. "It was about the worst ride I think I've ever seen in my entire life.

"I was appalled, absolutely appalled. We went all that way and, I mean I don't know Zac Purton at all, but it was just dreadful.

"It was so disappointing because everyone knows he is a horse that you have to tell what to do. He knew that, and he was told it, and he just sat there like a big sissy."

Haggas added: "I was horrified, I really was. We've gone all that way at huge expense on the owners' part and it just makes you realise how lucky we are with the jockeys we have in England, Ireland and France when you compare them to the rides we got on Saturday which were, as I say, really shockingly awful."

On the same card at Randwick, Purton steered star sprinter Ka Ying Rising to more glory in The Everest. And on Wednesday he celebrated riding his 1900th winner in Hong Kong.