The Boss man is a fan of Moreira

Jockey Joao Moreira had a red-letter day with six wins at Kranji in Singapore on Sunday.

The Singapore Turf Club’s website www.turfclub.com.sg reported that the final leg of the Brazilian’s six-timer came when Won’t Stop, trained by Leslie Khoo, won the last race on the 10-race Polytrack program, a Class 4 over 1200m.

Moreira (pictured winning at Kranji) had eight rides for the afternoon, for six wins (for different trainers) and two seconds, giving him 84 winners for the season and putting him in a strong position to break his record of 116, set last year when he won his first premiership. The season ends late in December.

Victorian Vlad Duric (55) leads the chasing pack this season. Melbourne-based Glen Boss, who rode 10 winners at Kranji during a winter stint, is a big Moreira fan, as he reveals in the next (September) edition of Inside Racing, to be published at the end of the month.

“I loved his seat on a horse,” Boss said in talking about the best riders he had seen overseas. “He has an amazing ability to quickly get a position … There are a few things he did that I’m working on. It might take me a few months, but I’ll get there.”

Moreira’s other winners on Sunday were Fuku’s Pet (trained by Sam Chua), Super Easy (Michael Freedman), Qualitase (Brian Dean), Merchant (Cliff Brown) and Dejayal (Mark Walker)

The jockey praised Super Easy, easy winner of a Class 4 over 1000m. He ran 58.68 seconds for the trip but was not pushed by Moreira.

“He is a horse with a very good future here in Singapore,” said Moreira. “I am very confident that if he continues to improve – and I think he will – then I think he will be winning a cups race of some sort in the next 12 months.”

Meanwhile, dual Cox Plate winner So You Think appears certain to have his fifth European start in the Group 1 Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown in Dublin on September 3 – Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien’s wife Annemarie tweeted that the race was the Ballydoyle stable’s target with the former Australian champion. O’Brien, who trains for the Coolmore conglomerate, had entered 15 horses for the 2000m race.

Ireland won its third successive Shergar Cup – an international jockeys’ competition between Ireland, Britain, Europe and the Rest Of The World – at Ascot in England on the weekend.

Australian Hugh Bowman, on the World team with Douglas Whyte (Hong Kong’s South African-born champion) and Yutaka Take (Japan), had one winner and was runner-up to Paul Hanagan, the British captain, in the individual award.