Harding doubles up at Caymanas

KINGSTON: Top Trinidadian rider Brian Harding climbed to seventh in Jamaica jockeys’ standings when he won twice on Saturday’s rain-hit horse racing meet at Caymanas Park. Harding won the second and fifth races for 15 victories this season — moving up from eighth in the championship table — before rain aborted the meet after seven races. In the second race, Harding pushed 4-5 favourite Palmetto Xpress to a 3 1/2 length win over 1600 metres, before registering a 1 1/2 length front-running victory astride Globalstar, also a 4-5 favourite, in the fifth race. His two wins were for trainer Gary Subratie. The 2000 Guineas winner King Is Born, tuned up for next month’s Red Stripe Jamaica Derby with a four-length win in the Restricted Stakes for native and imported three-year-olds over 1500 metres.