Full of fresh, raw vitality, Patriarch put down another electrifying performance to win the Juvenile Sprint, one of the two-year-old events carded for the Burger King-sponsored Superstakes Day 12-race programme at Caymanas Park on Saturday, and left his connections agog with excitement and hugely expectant.

Running undefeated for the third time and bred for speed, the Casual Trick bay colt covered himself with great acclamation for another inviting front-running display to win the event in a smart 1:19.1, achieved under foreboding splits of 22.3, 45.2, 1:11.3 to win by 4 ½ lengths.

Trainer Anthony Nunes was more than pleased with the colt and said afterwards: “I am quite pleased with the performance, but from here on, I will take it gradually step by step. He is not really bred to get a distance of ground, but we will take the decision to gradually increase the distances to get him to seven furlongs at the end of the month and by a mile in December.”

Questioned about the colt’s sharpness, Nunes responded: “Well, he is naturally sharp. That is how he is. In the mornings he has a lot of speed. My job is to get him to stay six and a half furlongs and beyond. This is the whole idea behind his progression. It’s part of a process and we will see where it takes us from here.”

Patriarch looks like a champion, runs like a champion, and Elias Haloute, who bred the colt and shares ownership with fellow Trinidadian Stephan Narinesingh, was on hand to watch and said: “Nobody sets out to breed anything less than a champion. You feel very proud when you are privileged to own a horse that always exhibits the characteristics of a good racehorse. Patriarch has always exhibited some unique characteristics as good racehorses do. And you learn to spot these racehorses in their personality very early. From his personality, Patriarch has turned it into performance, and we are extremely proud of him. Especially as I own the mother. I also have Bilingual out of the mother and now we have Patriarch. We are blessed to come into a mare like that. And to own Patriarch is a great honour,” he said.

Narinesingh, who sees Jamaica as his second home, said he was “pleased to share the moment of success of Patriarch with Haloute here at Caymanas Park and not on the phone”.

The irony of it all is that Electrifying is the dam of Patriarch, and she was the first horse that was co-owned by both Haloute and Narinesingh.

Narinesingh recounted that Electrifying had her problems as a racer, “but she ran her heart out to win races, even in pain. She’s really an outstanding thoroughbred”.