FORT ERIE, Canada, CMC – Barbadian Christopher Husbands logged a good-looking brace on the season-ending nine-race card as he accomplished a hat-trick of titles at Fort Erie right here Tuesday.
The 33-year-old gained race two with favourite Don’t Cease Dreamin and returned to seize race seven with one other favourite, Past Gifted, to complete the five-month marketing campaign with 40 wins.
Husbands, who gained the 2022 title with 32 wins and the 2021 crown with 52 wins, additionally ended the season with CAN$469 179 in cash.
Melanie Pinto completed second on 31 wins, with Jamaican Kirk Johnson an extra six again in third.
Getting into the ultimate day on the Central Canada Oval, all however assured of the title, Husbands celebrated with two wins from his 5 outings.
He opened his account in a six-furlong dash for the three-year-old and upwards, getting Don’t Cease Dreamin’ to the wire 5 lengths clear.
After stalking with the three-year-old chestnut gelding, Husbands overtook pace-setter Mighty Pele on the flip to dominate the stretch run.
Husbands’s second win came visiting a mile and sixteenth when he mixed with three-year-old gelding Past Gifted to get the higher of the three-year-old and upward maidens by three lengths.
Two-to-one wager Mr. Rudy and 18-1 outsider Sing Dixie dueled by the half-mile in 47.18 seconds with Husbands racing Past Gifted simply off the tempo.
Husbands roused his gelding on the far flip, grabbed the lead on the prime of the stretch, and had few challengers within the lane.
Together with his newest title conquest, Husbands moved his tally in Canada to 5, following successes at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg in 2014 and 2016.
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