At Port Macquarie on December 1, he booted home his fourth winning double in a career spanning less than a year.

His latest double came on board Mosh Pit for Randwick trainer Pat Webster in the Collins Group Maiden (1512m) and on Mind Freak for his master, Grant Prosser, in the Arrowfield Benchmark 53 (1200m).

“Jackson is a great kid, a hard worker and someone who I think is going to achieve a lot as a rider,” Prosser said.

“He is so enthusiastic, there is no stopping him.”

Murphy, originally from the Central Coast, joined Prosser and his son Colt knowing nothing about riding.

“They sent me to riding school to get me started then up to Michael O’Neill’s property to muster cattle,” Murphy said.

“It was two years of learning how to ride before I rode in my first race.”

That was at a non-TAB meeting at Wauchope and he made an immediate impact, booting home the first of those four doubles.

Since then his services have been in demand by trainers up and down the coast, riding everywhere from Taree to Ballina and inland to Muswellbrook, Scone and Tamworth.

“I know I do a lot of travelling but I love riding,” Murphy said.

“I was always small but I did a lot of surfing and I developed good balance from that.”

Mosh Pitt was saddled up by O’Neill, who trains a small team from his Long Flat property, and he gets to keep the four year old.

“He is going to stay up here and race in this area,” O’Neill said.

“He is a lovely big relaxed horse and I think he will get further.

“Mosh Pit only arrived a couple of hours before the race and that was the first time I had laid eyes on him but I liked what I saw.”

Murphy took him up to share the lead mid race, shook off the pacemaker The Free World on the turn and went on to win by one and a half lengths.

Murphy also had Mind Freak handier then when eighth at Kempsey at his previous start.

“He had him too far back at Kempsey and I told him to be closer to the lead today,” Prosser said.

Earlier, the Colt Prosser trained bargain buy, Metre Easter (Belinda Hodder) made up for his dismal first up last three week ago with a tough win in the De Bortoli Wines Maiden (1200m).

The three year old ran last behind Magic Arli in the $40,000 Port Macquarie maiden on November 10 but Prosser partly blames himself.

“I don’t think he was ready but he has gone ahead in leaps and bounds since then,” Prosser said.

“I put blinkers on him after that run and his work in them was very good so I left them on.

“He is a big horse and still green and learning his trade so the blinkers did the trick

“He is out of a Group One winning mare but I only paid $4000 for him at Scone last year.

“He was a bit over at the knees and no one wanted him but you buy them cheaply, take them home and see what you have got.

“I think we have a horse that is going to get to a mile or even further.”

Hodder let him find his feet on the outside of the field, circled them all on the turn and went on to win by one and a quarter lengths.

Former Victorian galloper Forever Alone only recently arrived at Neil Godbolt’s stable and made an immediate impact by winning the Schweppes Class One (1110m) at his first run for the trainer.

While he might have come from Victoria Godbolt new a little about the horse.

His previous trainers Mitchell Beer and Max Hinton took him to Coffs Harbour in July where he ran fifth then to Doomben where he ran third before taking him back to Victoria.

“I saw him at the Coffs Harbour meeting then later I found he was for sale on one of the web sites and I remembered him and thought he could be competitive in this area so bought him,” Godbolt said.

“He is a lovely horse and a pleasure to have in the stable.”