CITY Flight over-ran Graded Stakes native-bred and imported two-year-olds to win the $1,300,000 Sweet Ruckus Trophy feature to set the stage for businessman and racehorse owner Michael Bernard’s Michros to be champion owner for the 2012 racing season at Caymanas Park yesterday.

Michros cupped the championship by roughly accumulating the sum of $600,000 after winning 23 races to Elite Bloodstock’s 18.

Michros started the day trailing Elite Bloodstock Limited by about a million or so dollars. However, victory was assured when Bernard’s American-bred fillies City Flight and Alphaleta posted victories.

City Flight won the first race on the card and Alphaleta the third, while the local-bred three-year-old filly Linda Rice finished fourth in the fifth to take the Owners’ Championships.

Following the fourth-place finish of Lindo Rice, Bernard said the Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) CEO Franz Jobson informed him and congratulated him for having won the Owners Championship.

“It was a good feeling after receiving the news. There was good reason to be ecstatic. It was a Herculean effort where money was lost, but the objective was achieved. The vision to become champion owner after only a few years in racing was realised,” Bernard said.

Opened as the 1-9 favourite, City Flight, ridden by Omar Walker, ran 1,400 metres in a brisk 1:25.3. It was the filly’s third win from as many starts.

Stablemate and 10-1 shot Olympic Prospect came running on to be second, ridden by Dick Cardenas, with the American-bred and 20-1 chance Proud Song third another 1 3/4 farther back. Fircular Moment, the mount of Paul Francis, completed the frame at 25-1 in the field of seven.