CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia, CMC – Barbadian jockey Reshawn Latchman, who completed within the prime 5 at Charles City final season, was ok to land a winner on the opening day of the brand new marketing campaign right here Wednesday night time.
The 31-year-old captured the ultimate race on the eight-race card when he paired with 14-1 outsider Mystified to beat the three-year-olds and upward over seven furlongs.
5-to-one likelihood Gabriel’s Wing produced the early fractions and had opened up a three-length lead on the midway marker.
Latchman, who raced Mystified off the tempo, made his transfer, passing the seventh sixteenth pole and coming into the stretch contending for the lead.
Nevertheless, Royal Thunder and Gabriel’s wing led within the higher stretch earlier than Latchman bought his five-year-old bay gelding up within the last strides to win by a neck.
Latchman had earlier missed out in race two over 4-½ furlongs when he completed second aboard 5-1 alternative Windsor’s Play, 1-½ lengths behind the winner Thunder Punch.
He additionally got here shut in one other 4-½ dash in race seven when he completed second with 2-1 alternative Sayyestothelady, 3-½ lengths adrift of the winner Mackenzie’s Music.
The 2024 Charles City season will comprise 158 race days, headlined by the 2 graded stakes races – the Charles City Traditional and the Charles City Oaks, each grade two.
Within the year-long 2023 season, which wrapped up three weeks in the past, Latchman completed fourth with 84 wins from 539 rides, behind champion rider Arnaldo Bocachica, who logged 184.
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