TORONTO, Canada, CMC—Barbadians Patrick Husbands and Jason Hoyte served up contrasting rides to style success on Saturday, the opening day of the 69th Woodbine season.
The 50-year-old Husbands, a seven-time champion, produced a stalking experience aboard favourite Star Sweet to log a late win over the three-year-old and upward fillies and mares within the CAN$113 700 race 9.
Hoyte, 37, mixed with a 5-1 likelihood Hobbie Class to make all of the working within the day’s curtain-raiser to get the higher of the three-year-old and upward maiden fillies and mares.
“It’s nice to get the primary win of the season. We’ll preserve it going,” Hoyte was quoted as saying.
“I need to be within the prime 10. However this can be a powerful jockey colony, so we’ll hope for the most effective.”
Aboard the three-year-old chestnut filly skilled by Barbadian Tedston Holder, Hoyte took command of the five-furlong dash, the fractions coming again in 23.24 seconds for the quarter and 46.87 for the half.
Veteran Barbadian jockey Juan Crawford introduced a 4-1 wager on Sloans Sky with a robust stretch run, however Hobbie Class was by no means underneath any strain on the wire, finishing victory by two lengths.
Husbands, inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Corridor of Fame final week, carried the four-year-old chestnut filly Star Sweet to a 1-¾ size rating to open his account for the brand new marketing campaign.
In one other five-furlong dash, 8-1 selection American Starlet logged the early fractions of twenty-two.41 and 45.22 whereas being chased by 7-1 wager Ol’ Blondie, with Husbands stalking from third almost 4 lengths off the chief.
Star Sweet attacked on the quarter pole, however even then, Ol’ Blondie reeled into American Starlet to hit the entrance on the prime of the stretch.
Husbands introduced Star Sweet with a thundering run on the surface to catch the chief within the ultimate meters and win, easing up.
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