In the opening event on the nine-race card and run at 1,820 metres, 8-1 bet Eazy Peazy turned out in unbeatable form by conditioner Phillip Lee. Under smart handling from the improving, two-kilo claiming jockey Shavon Townsend, the four-year-old bay colt, a progeny of Casual Trick, made all the running to score by three lengths convincingly.

Race two signalled the start of a good day for title-chasing Raddesh Roman, seven behind leading protagonist Tevin Foster on 98. For the first of two success on the day, former 14-time champion Philip Feanny saddled the first two to finish the 1,500-metre contest. Unbelievable Force (USA) with Roman astride won by nearly five lengths ahead of stablemate Firecracker.

Former inmate of the leading Jason DaCosta stable, Lion Of Ekati (USA), ridden by Aaron Chatrie, started at odds of 9-5 and did trainer Winston Morris a good turn with a romp exceeding 16 lengths over the 1,400 metres of race three. In race four over the same trip, it was a 12-½ winning advantage from in front by 5-2 bet Sir Wong Don (Shane Richardson) declared by Alford Brown.

In race five, champion Reyan Lewis rode 6/1 shot Playfair into the winners’ enclosure where Anthony Nunes awaited after the colt mild upset successful gallop over the 1,300 metres. In race six, Roman secured his second as maiden Faith Downie (7-1) won the 1,100-metre exertion from in front for trainer Victor Williams’ first of the season.

The Raddesh “Sneaky Fox” Roman show was to resume in spectacular fashion. US import Pack Plays (1-2) with winning the Mouttet Mile as its primary objective looked not only out of class but possibly out of country. The US-bred three-year-old colt, a winner on the first of five starts in the USA and conditioned by Vincent Maine, skated in 12½ lengths clear in a time of 1:17.3 for 1,300 metres for Roman’s third.

For Roman’s fourth, near four-length winner of the featured 1,400-metre Thunderbird Trophy, Major Danger (1-1) was the second for trainer Feanny, who also saddled 18-1 bet runner-up Fearless Soul (Paul Francis) to repeat the “one-two” finish of the second event.

Clearly, from his perspective, Roman’s fifth had to be even more satisfying than the previous four combined. Having lost two close finishes, one through disqualification and the other by being outridden by the visiting Panamanian reinsman Victor Sanchez, Roman had sweet revenge in the 1,400-metre race nine aboard Spencer Chung’s James (5-2). In a duel inside the last 200 metres James wore down Sanchez’s front-running 9-5 favourite She’s Myhedgefund to score by three parts of a length.

The Training Feat Award is presented to Victor Williams for the performance of the inexperienced three-year-old maiden filly Faith Downie, who was having only her third racecourse appearance but delivered the Best Winning Gallop. Roman cops yet another Jockeyship Award as to the five-timer his full skill set was required.

Jockey Raddesh Roman heads to the scales for the fifth time. (Photos: Naphtali Junior)

Eazy Peazy (Shavon Townsend atop) wins the opening event.