ETOBICOKE, Ontario, CMC – Ace Barbadian reinsman Patrick Husbands crossed the 50-win mark for the season on the Woodbine race monitor in Canada with a double on the eight-race card on Friday.
The 50-year-old, seven-time champion at Canada’s foremost racing facility now has 51 wins for the season, which opened on April 22 and ended on December 17. He’s sixth within the jockeys’ standings, headed by Kazushi Kimura of Japan with 118 wins.
Husbands grabbed a two 1/4-lengths win aboard the odds-on favorite Dolder Grand within the CAN $ 61,800 non-obligatory claiming third race over 1 700 metres on the all-weather monitor.
He was content material to maintain Dolder Grand trailing on the skin of a compact bunch down the backstretch. He began a four-wide run circling runners 600m from the end earlier than he produced the five-year-old, darkish bay gelding on the high of the lane and took management with 200m remaining and was going away from rivals to clock one minute, 44.75 seconds.
Husbands returned astride the 9-5 favourite Richiesinthehouse to gather the narrowest of wins within the CAN $54 500, claiming the sixth race over 1 300m on the all-weather monitor.
Although Richiesinthehouse hoped barely lacking the break, Husbands obtained the nine-year-old bay gelding into a superb place and watched the front-running duo down the backstretch earlier than getting his mount to creep nearer across the flip.
Richiesinthehouse posed the primary menace within the higher stretch, and Husbands stored his mount to the duty whereas battling for the lead on the sixteenth pole earlier than determinedly holding off a closing rival in a decent end on the wire for a time of 1 min, 16.01 secs, only one.57 ticks off the monitor report.
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