FORT ERIE, Canada, CMC – Barbadian apprentice jockey Da Sean Gaskin secured a spot within the prime 10 jockeys’ standing with a double on the eight-race card on Monday on the Fore Erie racetrack in Canada.
Gaskin climbed into tenth place within the standings when he elevated his combination to 5 for the season—which opened on Could 28 and closed on October 22—on the racing facility sometimes called “the border oval” due to its proximity (barely a mile) to the US border.
Gaskin propelled the 2-1 likelihood, Boxer Transient to win by 2-1/4 lengths within the CAN $13 500, claiming the fifth race over six furlongs on the grime. The race options three-year-olds and upward who’ve but to win a race this yr or 4 races ever.
He settled Boxer Transient off the tempo earlier than shifting up the five-year-old, darkish bay gelding on the flip and proving finest from the highest of the ultimate straight to the end within the six-path for one minute, 11.05 seconds – 2.87 off the monitor document.
Gaskin adopted up when he piloted the odds-on favourite Autumn’s So Flashy to a half-length win within the CAN $18 900 maidens, claiming the seventh race for maidens, three-year-olds, and upward, over six furlongs on the grime.
He saved Autumn’s So Flashy in contact with the leaders by way of the primary half of the race earlier than the five-year-old bay gelding turned an element on the flip and prevailed in 1 min, 12.53 secs after taking the lead within the four-path on the prime of the ultimate straight.
Barbadian Juan Crawford, the 2020 Fort Erie champion, and Jamaica-born Kirk Johnson, the five-time Fort Erie champion, additionally landed wins on the cardboard.
Crawford has solely two wins for the season, and Johnson is fourth within the standings, on 10, behind co-leaders Edgar Zenteno and feminine rider Sofia Vives, on 12, and Alexis Sanchez, on 11.
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