NORTH RANDALL, Ohio, CMC – Jamaican jockey Robert Halledeen had one in all his finest days within the saddle this yr on the Thistledown race observe in the USA, the place he logged back-to-back wins on Monday’s race card.
The 34-year-old, a five-time basic winner at Caymanas Park on dwelling soil, now has 23 wins for the season, which opened on April 24 and is about to shut on October 13, and he’s twelfth within the jockeys’ standings headed by Luis Rivera on 68 wins.
Barbadian jockey Rocco Bowen continued his comeback yr along with his thirty third win of the season on the eight-race card, and he’s seventh within the standings.
Halloween, also called “Hardball” by Jamaican race followers, notched a 1-1/4 lengths win aboard the 4-1 wager Diva Energy within the U.S. $27 400 starter optionally available, claiming fourth race over six furlongs on the filth observe.
He obtained Diva Energy away alertly, and the six-year-old, darkish bay mare set a pressured tempo two extensive into the flip earlier than shaking clear earlier than a half and widening beneath right-handed urging from Halledeen within the higher stretch to clock one minute, 11.64 seconds.
Halledeen, who began using in the USA final yr, proved himself when he adopted up with a tactical experience to steer 16-1 outsider Gibby My Corn to a win by a head within the U.S. $35 800 allowance fifth race over six furlongs on the filth.
He confirmed no urgency for a half on Gibby My Corn, however he obtained the five-year-old bay gelding to shut quickly within the 5 paths beneath left-handed urging by deep within the homestretch and obtained up within the ultimate strides for a time of 1 min, 13.26 secs.
In distinction, Bowen had a straightforward experience to win the U.S. $ 35,800 allowances seventh race over one mile on the filth astride the raging sizzling favourite, Our Final Tune, by 10-3/4 lengths.
Our Final Tune broke in entrance, set all of the tempo, and Bowen obtained the four-year-old bay filly to widen by the stretch to complete in 1:42.02.
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