Caribbean jockeys star at Woodbine

TORONTO, Canada:  Caribbean jockeys Patrick Husbands and Emile Ramsammy shared nine weekend winners at Woodbine while maintaining spots close to the jockeys’ championship lead.

Barbadian Husbands, Canada’s Sovereign Award outstanding jockey for the past four years, had five wins and Trinidad and Tobago’s Ramsammy landed four. Todd Kabel is current leader with ten wins after a month in the new season,  one ahead of Husbands, with Ramsammy a close third. Husbands’ five wins included four on Friday — when Ramsammy had a double — and he also scored by a neck with Secretsafe Withme on Sunday. Ramsammy, who had a win on Saturday, landed the featured Lady Angel Stakes aboard Deputy Cures Blues.

The two-time Canadian champion jockey rallied the 2-1 favourite to a narrow  victory in a three-horse finish of the Can$130,000 event over seven  furlongs. Deputy Cures Blues won by a neck in one minute 24.62 seconds, beating the  9-2 chance Stop Looking, while Barbadian jockey Slade Callaghan was only a further neck behind in third aboard Macdashi (9-1). Jamaican Shane Ellis also had a weekend winner, scoring on Sunday aboard  11-1 chance Five Travoltas by 3-1/4 lengths for Jamaican trainer Norman  DeSouza.