HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida, CMC – Veteran Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands got here up empty-handed in two rides at Gulfstream Park on Saturday as he continued to arrange for one more season at Canada’s prestigious Woodbine.
The 50-year-old missed out aboard favourite Zozan in race 4 when he completed second for coach and fellow Barbadian Saffie Joseph Jr and returned in race eight to complete one from final with 12-1 alternative Hockey for long-time boss Mark Casse.
Husbands is anticipated to be within the irons once more when the Woodbine season opens on April 27. The seven-time champion is coming off a 2023 marketing campaign that noticed him end sixth with 62 wins.
Going a mile for the three-year-olds and upward in race 4, Husbands saved the four-year-old gelding Zozan in rivalry as Cheyenne Courageous and Phobia dominated the early fractions of 24.67 and 48.47 seconds.
Husbands slipped Zozan to the entrance nearing the quarter pole and nonetheless led on the sixteenth marker till Edgar Perez introduced four-year-old chestnut gelding Curlin’s Kitten with a late run to win by three-quarters of a size.
Going a mile and sixteenth for the three-year-old fillies with no win apart from their maiden in race eight, Husbands set the tempo with the darkish bay filly Hockey, logging splits of 23.10 for the quarter and 47.02 for the half.
Winner De Regreso, a 15-1 shot, stalked from second beneath Jara Fernando with Roscoe Village and Madame Mischef in rivalry.
As soon as De Regreso reeled in Hockey mid-way on the flip, the Casse runner light badly, De Regreso occurring to edge favourite Watchtower by a neck.
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