WINNIPEG, Manitoba, CMC: Barbadian Antonio Whitehall was topped champion jockey on the Assiniboia Downs racetrack in Canada for the third time on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old closed the racing season with a double win on the seven-race mid-week card on the central Canadian racetrack to finish with 56 wins from 284 mounts and clinch the title he beforehand received in 2018 and 2020.
It was the second time in 5 days that Whitehall had a double win after he did the identical factor on Monday’s race card, and this enabled him to finish the season main the cash listing among the many colony of jockeys on the monitor with CAN $687 380 – nobody else totaling greater than half million {dollars}.
He acquired his first win of the day by a neck aboard the 6-5 favourite Fortunate Chuckee within the CAN $10 226, claiming his fifth race over 1 100 meters on the dust.
Fortunate Chuckee dueled for the lead on the surface of Witt’s Rojo, underneath Trinidad & Tobago jockey Stanley Chadee, throughout the race’s first half. Nonetheless, Whitehall acquired the four-year-old, darkish bay gelding to edge away within the stretch for one minute, 05.45 seconds.
Whitehall once more needed to go to work when he drove the 2-1 favourite Warrior’s Map to victory by the slimmest of margins – a nostril – within the CAN $13 200, claiming the ultimate race over one mile on the dust to carry the season to an in depth fittingly.
He raced Warrior’s Map close to the again of the nine-horse subject for the primary half of the race earlier than he acquired the six-year-old bay horse to take a brief lead three-wide early within the remaining flip and maintain on within the stretch to clock 1 min, 40.65 secs.
Additionally profitable on the cardboard have been Barbadian jockey Renaldo Cumberbatch for the twenty fourth time this season to complete seventh within the standings, compatriot Shavon Belle acquired his eleventh win to finish thirteenth, and Jamaican Arthur Budhu acquired his tenth to shut eleventh.
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