CALGARY, Alberta, CMC – Celebrated Jamaican jockey Dane Nelson continued his wonderful type when he prolonged his lead within the jockeys’ standings with a triple on Sunday’s 11-race card on the Century Downs race monitor in Canada.
The 39-year-old, affectionately referred to as “The Warrior Chief” in racing circles in his homeland, was topped champion final month at Century Mile – a companion monitor to Century Downs – within the Alberta capital of Edmonton.
He now leads the Downs standings with 17 wins for the season that opened on September 9 and closes on October 29, and he’s seven away from his nearest rival, Barbadian N’Rico Prescod, who additionally grabbed a pair of wins on the 11-race card.
Different Caribbean winners on the race card had been: Trinidad & Tobago apprentice jockey Andrew Poon and rising Barbadian reinsman Da-Sean Gaskin.
Nelson opened the day’s racing with a 2-1/4 lengths win aboard the odds-on favourite Quick Eh within the CAN $ 10,000, claiming their first race over 700 meters on the filth monitor.
He had little work to do in such a brief journey, and Quick Eh saved floor whereas setting the tempo earlier than drawing clear through the drive to clock 39 seconds flats – the five-year-old chestnut gelding ending 0.25 off the monitor report.
Nelson then booted a 4-1 guess Anna’s Picture to a 2-3/4 lengths win within the CAN $9 000, claiming the fourth race over six furlongs on the filth.
This time, Nelson had a bit of labor to do early within the race when Anna’s Picture dueled with Darla’s Fury beneath Jose Asencio through the first quarter earlier than the three-year-old, darkish bay filly shook her rival off, leaving the eighth pole and steadily drew clear to complete in a single minute, 12.96 seconds.
Nelson additionally landed a 2-1/2 lengths win astride the 4-5 favourite Decoy within the CAN $20 000 allowance optionally available, claiming the penultimate race over 1 300 meters on the filth.
Once more, Nelson was made to work when Decoy dueled with Stone Carver, beneath Francisco Guerrero, for the lead earlier than drawing clear late to publish a time of 1:15.94 – the four-year-old bay gelding ending 0.68 off the monitor report.
In between, Prescod logged a 3-3/4 lengths win on the 7-5 favourite Whiskarita within the CAN $ 10,000, claiming the third race over 1 500 meters on the filth.
Prescod had Whiskarita save floor whereas setting the tempo, and the seven-year-old bay mare proved there was life left within the previous gal, but when she steadily elevated her benefit. No official time was posted for the race.
Prescod grabbed a three-length win on the 9-5 favourite Wild Arch within the CAN $ 12,500, claiming the seventh race over 1 300 meters on the filth.
He held Wild Arch off the tempo early and swung the six-year-old bay mare out four-wide nearing the quarter pole earlier than taking command, getting into the stretch and shortly drawing clear for a time of 1:16.98, just one.72 off the monitor report.
Poon scored a victory by a neck when 3-1 likelihood Browning Island prevailed in a stiff drive over Smash Issue, beneath 2023 Assiniboia Downs champion Antonio Whitehall of Barbados, within the CAN $10 000 claiming fifth race over six furlongs on the filth.
And, Gaskin nailed a two-length win on the 18-1 long-shot Carrera Caballo that held the lead all through the CAN $9 000, claiming the ninth race over 1 300 meters on the filth.
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