Ramsammy chalks up another stakes win at Woodbine

TORONTO: Top Trinidadian jockey Emile Ramsammy logged his seventh Stakes win of the 2003 Woodbine when he captured the Seagram Cup on Sunday aboard the outstanding six-year-old horse Wake At Noon.

Wake At Noon, Canada’s 2002 Horse of the Year, won the CAN$136,500 Seagram by 2-3/4 lengths over Anglian Prince and gave Ramsammy his fourth consecutive Stakes triumph in as many weekends. Sent postward as the 8-5 favourite, Wake At Noon and Emile Ramsammy made every pole a winning one.  “I knew he was going to be on his game today. The race turned out the way we wanted it to. He had a nice easy lead again today,” Ramsammy said. “He just had nobody to pressure him. He just kept going,” added the 40-year-old Ramsammy, who won the Colin, Izvestia, and Bull Page Stakes races in the previous weeks. Wake At Noon won four stakes races last year on his way to double Sovereign Awards, named Canada’s top sprinter as well as Horse of the Year.  Ramsammy, a two-time champion jockey of Canada, has 52 wins so far this season and is lying fourth in the jockeys’ championship table behind Todd Kabel (85), Patrick Husbands (76) and McAleney (54). Husbands had one win on the card, pushing 2-1 favourite To the Chapel to victory in the first race by two lengths.