#Trevor Hardy

At just 14 years of age, Zac Purton made a decision that would change his life. He decided to skip school for a day. "I jumped at the opportunity," Purton recalls with a cheeky smile. Instead of walking through the gates of Coffs Harbour High, the schoolboy went to an RSL club for a jockey recruitment seminar. Not long after, before finishing year…

Coffs Harbour trainer Trevor Hardy didn't think he'd still be preparing to win races but Aheadofhistime has kept him in the game. The six-year-old runs in the Jacaranda Cup (1115m) at Grafton on Wednesday off a last start win at Port Macquarie so he's in the right shape to take out the feature on the NSW north coast. Hardy was nearly lost to racing…