It was as if the racing gods ordained it. Talented Tony K used his well-known speed and was finally able to concoct a concentrated effort with a gate to wire win in the Lotto Sprint Trophy over five and a half furlongs (1,100m) on Saturday at Caymanas Park.

Talented Tony K, a past winner of the Lotto Classic run for the Governor’s Cup could not have chosen a better time to showcase his undoubted speed.Under the finesse handling of visiting Panamanian jockey Dick Cardenas for trainer Patrick ‘Wacky’ Lynch,

Talented Tony K broke on top and made every post a winning one as he won convincingly by one and a quarter lengths, being unchallenged from start to finish as a 10-1 betting option.It was

Talented Tony K’s second visit to the winning circle for the season, as since his win on March 29, he has had two dismal runs, finishing in last place on both occasions going six and a half furlongs (1,300m) and five and a half furlongs (1,100m).By virtue of Saturday’s win, the six-year-old bay horse by

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Ocean Liner now boasts a record of eight wins, two seconds and five thirds from 28 starts, for lifetime earnings of over $8.6 million.

Campesino (Robert Halledeen), was slowly into the stride and had to play catch up for most of the way. He came with a strong attempt at victory in deep stretch to finish second as the 8-5 second favourite in the small field of six runners. The improving

Chace the Great (Dane Dawkins) also came on good for third money.Although the final time of 1:05.1 for the five and a half furlongs (1,100m) Graded Stakes race wasn’t anything to brag about, the run by

Talented Tony K was a clear and loud indication that he is back to himself.“The plan going into any race is to win and so the plan coming into this race was to win. This horse has really good speed and he used it perfectly today (Saturday) to win this race.“He is a good horse and he ran really well to get the win. When I asked him to go up the straight, he gave me everything necessary to win,” Cardenas said.