WINNIPEG, Manitoba, CMC-Three-time champion jockey Antonio Whitehall stated he regarded ahead to the brand new racing season at Assiniboia Downs in Canada.
The 30-year-old reinsman from Barbados is one in all a number of Caribbean jockeys again on the central Canadian racetrack exercising horses day by day to safe “reside” mounts for the upcoming season, which opens on Monday, Might 20.
Whitehall confidently gained the driving title final 12 months, profitable at a 20 % clip and compiling a document of 56 wins, 43 seconds, and 54-thirds from 284 mounts for purse earnings of CAN $687 757.
He completed 15 wins away from runner-up and fellow Barbadian Damario Bynoe, who has additionally returned from holidaying in Bridgetown and is exercising horses within the morning together with compatriots Renaldo Cumberbatch and Shavon Belle, in addition to Chavion Chow of Jamaica, and Prayven Badrie, Sven Balroop, and Stanley Chadee Jr of Trinidad & Tobago.
“I simply went residence and kicked again this winter, frolicked with the household,” Whitehall stated. “…however it’s good to be again.
“After all, it’s chilly, however my motto is to maintain going. Once you cease, you type of freeze. It’s a must to hold galloping to get by it.”
There are 170 horses on the observe proper now, and that is anticipated to develop to greater than 200 by the top of the month, which shall be forward of final 12 months’s quantity.
Whitehall has been getting on horses for his regular trainers, together with Wendy Anderson, Jared Brown, Shelley Brown, and Tom Gardipy, Jr.
He’s wanting ahead to this 12 months and hoping to make a very good run at his fourth title. He additionally relishes further competitors.
“Work laborious, play laborious,” he stated. “Carry it on. It makes me higher.”
Throughout his journey residence, Whitehall influenced Rashad Knight, an apprentice from Barbados, to make the journey to Canada, and he’s excited to see what the younger rider can obtain.
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