ETOBICOKE, Ontario, CMC – Established Barbadian jockey Rico Walcott edged into the top-10 jockeys this season on the Woodbine racetrack in Canada with a double on Sunday’s 11-race card.
The 36-year-old, a a number of champion at tracks in western Canada, now has 24 wins for the 12 months on the nation’s premier facility and moved into tenth within the jockeys’ standings, led by Japanese rider Kazushi Kimura, on 85 wins.
Walcott confirmed his driving expertise when he drove the 39-1 long-shot Wealllikedhim to a one-length win within the CAN $65 900 maiden non-compulsory, claiming third race over 1 300 meters on the all-weather monitor.
He was content material to let Weallikedhim monitor the speedy chief down the bottom of the monitor and took nearer order by the quarter pole earlier than he produced the five-year-old bay gelding on the high of the lane. His mount completed determinedly between rivals for one minute, 18.64 seconds.
Walcott once more needed to go to work to clinch a win by a head aboard the 5-1 alternative Intention for the Sky within the CAN $111 000 remaining race over 5 furlongs on the interior turf course.
He hustled Intention for the Sky to the entrance down the bottom of the course. His mount nonetheless had the lead operating on the flip earlier than edging away within the remaining 200 meters from Forester’s Fortune, underneath ace Barbadian reinsman Patrick Husbands, and the six-year-old chestnut gelding had sufficient within the tank to carry for a time of 56.97 secs.
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