Zac Purton ride was "worst ever", says Maureen Haggas

Maureen Haggas has criticised the ride given by Zac Purton on Lake Forest at Randwick on Saturday.

The son of No Nay Never finished last of 12 in the Group One King Charles III Stakes and, speaking to Anthony Dunkley at Kempton on Wednesday evening after saddling Zennor Storm to success, Haggas was scathing in her assessment of the ride he was given.

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

"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 him he's got to do it and and he knew that, and he was told it, and he just sat there like a big Sissy."

Haggas added: "I mean I was 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."

Earlier this week, Maureen's husband William Haggas appeared on Luck On Sunday and gave an unsparing assessment on some of Oisin Murphy's riding tactics this year. He pointed to his ride on Corinth at Sandown in particular, which he described as "bordering on dangerous".