TT’s Pereira, Ramgeet score at Mountaineer

CHESTER: Caribbean riders Andrew Ramgeet and Ossie Pereira, both current top-ten riders at Mountaineer Park, shared three wins on Saturday evening. Jamaican Ramgeet captured the sixth and eighth races, both for trainer James Dodgen, while Pereira, originally from Trinidad and Tobago, won the fourth event on the ten-race card.

In the fourth race, Pereira, who rode over 50 winners to be second in the last Mountaineer Park season, had to work hard to score with the hot 2-5 favourite I Said No in the US$25,000 six-furlong sprint. The three-year-old filly stumbled badly at the start and after being hustled up on the inside to secure a competitive position, rallied gamely down the stretch and registered a win by a neck after a tense deep-stretch battle with the 5-2 second favourite Susie Q. I Said No covered the trip in one minute 17.13 seconds for trainer Charles Lake and gave Pereira his 12th win of the season for fourth in the standings.

Ramgeet, who has suffered a slight slump in recent weeks, piloted the four-year-old filly Wet N Wild to a clear win in the US$16,000 sixth race over one mile. The 2-1 favourite Wet N Wild stalked the leaders under Ramgeet, took control entering the home-stretch and widened her lead for a five length triumph in 1:46.16, ahead of Moon Bay Dancer, with leading jockey Scott Spieth aboard. Ramgeet secured another convincing win in the eighth race, a US$19,000 sprint over 5-1/2 furlongs. He settled the five-year-old gelding Let the Fuhr Fly on the lead early and unleashed the four-year-old gelding in the home-stretch for a 5-1/2 length victory in the six-horse field. Let the Fuhr Fly, a 6-1 chance in the small field, recorded a time of 1:06.43 and gave 10th placed Ramgeet his sixth win of the new season.