Eighty-four declared horses reported to the starter on the 10-race card of which seven came under starters’ orders in the featured renewal of the 1,000-metre straight Reggae Trophy. With two top-class sprinters — progressive, US-bred Jordon Reign’s (Dick Cardenas) and the versatile She’s A Wonder a dual Classic (1,000 Guineas and Oaks 2021) heroine — trainer Ian Parsard was relatively certain to be in the winners’ enclosure.

Jordon Reign’s (3-5) winner of six of eight career starts, three of which came over today’s distance, had the speedy American filly Go Deh Girl sharing the lead for 600 metres. Once asked to put the field under pressure to change up through the gears, no serious threat emerged and Jordon Reign’s, a four-year-bay gelding, ended the gallop conservatively two and a half clear at the winning post. Improving sprinter Curlin’s Flight (13-1) was a half a length ahead of She’s A Wonder who was third.

Dale Murphy, owner and trainer of Pure Heart (7-2), first past the post in the 1,100-metre opener, had many anxious minutes to confirm the first of a double as the panel of Operation Stewards deliberated over an incident which resulted in Christopher Manmdeen aboard Kunama in fourth appearing to take evasive action when the winner shifted off the rails. The officials eventually deemed that nothing was amiss. Given jockey Aaron Chatrie’s well-chronicled misfortune in similar circumstances in the past, the sigh of relief was more than audible when the “no-change-to-the-order-of-the-finish” was announced.

After expensive flops when backed at relatively short odds in her last six races, Anngelos (3-5), out for the first time in the care of Renex Burrell, won the 1,400-metre second event with leading reinsman Dane Dawkins setting up for a four-timer.

In race three, five-year-old Plutologist won on its 31st career appearance for trainer Lorne Kirlew’s fourth success from 18 starts this season. Infrequently engaged four-kilo claiming jockey Daniel Thompson was very animated in his post-race expressions of gratitude.

For the second occasion it was Dawkins’ time again in the fourth. Run over 1,000 metres straight, it was former six-time champion jockey Omar Walker’s turn to feel the brunt of the winning rider’s current form. In a shoulder-to-shoulder affair inside the last 100 metres, Dawkins aboard the Steven Todd-conditioned 4-5 favourite Fresh Cash ended with an advantage of a neck over the Walker-ridden Broken Light (5-2) when the winning post called time on the gallop.

The third win of the Dawkins show was delivered in some style as he waited on the bridle in third over 1,100 metres as frontrunners Balazo (Shane Richardson) and Lala Diva (Anthony Thomas) over-competed for the early headlines. The latter, after sprinting clear 200 metres out, was punished in the final stages by the well-timed late challenge of the Henry Harrison Jnr-conditioned City Counsel (6-1) by a half a length.

Half an hour later Dawkins equalled his best day in the saddle. In closing a four-timer for the second time this season. Patrick Lynch’s Charmin Beauty (9-5) delivered a late challenge, timed well enough, for a win margin of just over one length in the 1,000-metre round sixth race restricted to three-year-old maidens.

Dale Murphy’s double was closed in authoritative fashion as reigning champion Thomas, for his first of two on the day, rode maiden three-year-old filly Fearless Fire, to an uncontested victory margin of six and a half lengths in race eight run over 1,000 metres round.

Thomas was back for another frontrunning wide-margin success in the 1,600-metre seventh aboard Jason DaCosta’s lightly raced, but free-scoring four-year-old filly She’s My Destiny (1-2) this time by just over six lengths, claiming her sixth success from nine appearances. DaCosta, the season’s leading conditioner, also saddled Johncrowjeff (3-1) ridden by Jerome Innis to win the 1oth and closing event over 1,000 metres straight.

The Training Feat Award is presented to Henry Harrison Jr for the performance of City Counsel in winning at the higher $550,000 claiming level, up from $400,000, in her first outing for the stable. The mare delivered the Best Winning Gallop under exceptionally good handling from Dawkins who claims the Jockeyship Award.