QUEENS, New York, CMC – Romero Maragh loved a memorable day within the saddle when he logged a three-timer on the nine-race card on Sunday on the Aqueduct racetrack in the USA.
The 23-year-old jockey with Jamaican roots is tied with Eclipse award-winning apprentice Jose Antonio Gomez on ten wins for the season on the monitor, the one racing facility situated throughout the New York Metropolis limits and residential of the New York Racing Affiliation, the state’s horse racing authority.
Maragh opened his account with a convincing, eight-length win aboard the 3-1 guess Joey the Fish within the U.S. $28 000 second race over one mile on the grime monitor.
Joey the Fish vied for the early lead between rivals after which exterior a duo on the flip earlier than Maragh positioned the three-year-old, darkish bay filly three broad to make a bid for victory, and he or she drew off within the lane to show a lot greatest for a time of 1 minute, 38.83 seconds.
Maragh then drove the 3-1 alternative Candy as Sugar to a two 3/4-lengths win within the U.S. $28 000 third race over seven furlongs on the grime monitor.
He hustled Candy as Sugar to the entrance, and his mount confirmed the way in which with a transparent benefit earlier than the four-year-old, darkish bay filly managed the motion whereas inside on the flip, become the higher stretch underneath a drive, drew off into the ultimate furlong and held underneath regular urging to clock 1 min, 25.54 secs.
Maragh returned later to seize a 3 1/2-lengths win astride the raging sizzling favourite White Chocolate within the U.S. $90 000 eighth race over six furlongs on the grime monitor.
White Chocolate was away alertly and crossed over to set the tempo whereas racing within the two paths earlier than the three-year-old, gray filly kicked out, leaving the flip, and was by no means headed to complete in 1:10.58.
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