TORONTO, Canada – Veteran Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands maintained his imperious added-money form at Woodbine on Saturday, sweeping both feature races on the 11-race card in front-running style.
The seven-time champion first partnered with hot favourite Owlette to win the CAN$100 000 Victorian Queen Stakes in race seven, and then returned in race nine with 4-1 choice Jean Elizabeth to capture the $100 000 Sweet Briar Stakes
With the success, the 46-year-old Husbands moved his stakes tally for the season to 15 – the most by any rider during the campaign. He lies fifth on 51 wins in the jockeys’ standings with earnings of $2.5 million.
Husbands opened his account in a six-furlong trip with the bay filly Owelette, trouncing the two-year-old fillies by 2-½ lengths in a time of one minute, 10.10 seconds, to land a record fifth Victorian Queen Stakes.
Owelette set a brisk pace, hauling the field through sharp splits of 22.24 seconds for the quarter and 45.51 for the half, with Victorian Moon right alongside on the outside and a gap of two lengths back to She’s a Dream and Bambarra Bay.
Impse husban' spoil my woodbine life yes. wen tellin you I bex!:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
deh bring in dem 2 latin bwoy an dem..the Potoghee Da Sliva and the pay'ol fella Contreras and start gih dem all the horses.
Husban get real bex' an ah 'top ride fuh real..din care. and I doh trus dem fellas start lose money now. Husban' not winnin' and I cyay understand dem new impse and dem. the god dam racing change an' piss orf and refuse to adjust.
so i stop betting woodbine. this is the fus' year since den I see Husban' riding good again. the owner/trainers stiffed husbands..deh stop gih him good rides jess like dat. racism
Richard Dos Ramos receive the good news : he was at home, recovering from an injury suffered on the second day
of racing at Woodbine racetrack this spring, when John Whitson (mapoui racist), vice-president
of thoroughbred racing at Woodbine told him he had just won :
the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award, given to riders who have made significant contributions to horse racing in Canada.
It's an honour given to elite riders who have attachments to Canada