QUEENS, New York, CMC – Guyanese coach Naipaul Chatterpaul notched a single winner on Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct when his six-year-old chestnut gelding Centavo produced a strong rating within the US$55 000 race 4.
Going a mile and eighth for the four-year-olds and upward, Centavo – the longest shot within the discipline at odds of 14-1 – overcame a fractious begin the place he nearly tossed jockey Gokhan Kocakaya to stalk the leaders.
Favourite Evening Impact logged the early fractions with 24.77 seconds for the quarter and 49.41 for the half, with an 8-1 guess Jungfrau working in second and a 3-1 likelihood Confirmed Hope and Centavo battling for fourth.
Kocakaya roused Centavo on the five-sixteenth pole, and the gelding made wonderful headway into the stretch to seize the lead contained in the three-sixteenth.
Nonetheless, he was underneath risk from Evening Impact and Confirmed Hope till getting clear within the last phases.
In his solely different outing on the nine-race card, Chatterpaul watched as his 6-1 guess Additional Soiled completed third within the $32 000 race, one over six furlongs for the three-year-old maiden fillies.
Chatterpaul has received 3 times in 15 begins for the season, which received underway on New Yr’s Day and wraps up March 30.
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