Missmyrtleboyrichie romps Dye Job feature
AMERICAN-BRED colt Missmyrtleboyrichie drew clear of rivals turning for home and romped the $865,000 Dye Job Sprint feature by seven lengths at Caymanas Park on Wednesday.
Also highlighting the nine-race midweek card were Welsh Souter, who saddled his 100th winner with Spongy Spongy in the sixth, and jockey Tadeus Simpson, who rode Spongy Spongy to gain his first victory at Caymanas Park.
The son of five-time champion jockey Trevor Simpson, the 22-year-old younger Simpson began his riding career in the United States and was having his 10th ride at Caymanas Park before opening his winning account.
US-trained Tadeus had secured two second-place finishes in his first nine rides.
Meanwhile, Free Fall, the even-money favourite ridden by Javour Simpson, came from behind with a late flourish to overhaul Dolla Win close home to win the $492,000 Grooms’ Association Of Jamaica Trophy secondary feature by an even length.
Dolla Win, ridden by Omar Walker, went clear in mid-track and looked the likely winner nearing the finishing line, but his mount seemed to go lame and Simpson produced Free Fall on the far outside to deny Walker of his 100th win of the season.
When Walker earlier won the principal feature aboard Missmyrtleboyrichie, it was accepted that Walker had ridden his second century of winners in a season in his fourth Jockeys Championship title.
However, it was later disclosed that Roll The Dice, his winning mount of October 23, was disqualified at the Jamaica Racing Commission on Tuesday, which meant he started the day on 98 wins, and not 99.
In winning the Dye Job Sprint, Missmyrtleboyrichie ran 1,200 metres in a time of 1:12.2 among Restricted Stakes native-bred and imported two-year-olds to register his fourth consecutive win from six career starts and handed Walker his 99th win of the season. Twelve ran.
Dance So Sweet lost only by one length to Missmyrtleboyrichie when they last met over the distance on November 6 and now that was having a weight advantage coming into the event it was dubbed the battle between the American-bred colt and filly.
As it turned out, though, Dance So Sweet, ridden by Ellis, had no answer to Missmyrtleboyrichie as he returned a completely different animal and turned the race into a fiasco for the filly, who failed to respond to the massive improvement shown by Missmyrtleboyrichie.