On Jockeys’ Guild Day, the six-furlong Graded Stakes/Open Allowance None Such Sprint Trophy, named to honour the exploits of that all-time great speedster and staged as race nine, was the main attraction on the programme of 10 races. Also honoured were a select number of past champion riders, including the recently departed Trevor McKenzie, titlist in 1965, 1966, and 1968.

Pack Plays (USA), declared by Rowan Mathie and piloted by apprentice Emelio McLean, dominated the early fractions, turned for clear, and scored by two-and-a-half lengths, with the computerised electronic timing apparatus registering 1:10.3 when the winning post signalled the end of the gallop.

The opener was a maiden event, restricted to maiden four-year-olds and upwards, with the nine declared riders winless since February 1 this year. Kerry-Gayl Robinson brought the even-money favourite Dreamer, saddled by former jockey Phillip Elliot, from just off the pace to score by a head in the final stride of the seven-furlong gallop.

In race two, a 7 ½-furlong Restricted Stakes for three- and four-year-olds with fewer than four wins, reigning champion Jason DaCosta for the first of three on the day saddled the first two to finish. At odds of 5-1, Prosangue (USA), ridden by Robert Halledeen for the first of a double, led close to home to defeat the front-running stablemate Novia (3-5) by a head.

The promising apprentice Jaheim Anderson had two visits to the winners’ enclosure, the first of which was aboard Paul Swaby’s Native Alliance (3-1), an all-the-way winner of race three. The event was contested over seven furlongs and confined to five-year-olds and up with fewer than two successes.

To close a hat-trick of wide-margin successes, Password (2-5), saddled by Lawrence Freemantle and guided by title-favourite Tevin Foster for the first of a riding double, added another 13 to 12½ and 10-length victories to its two previous starts. Password, a former inmate of the DaCosta outfit, was claimed by Oraldo Chin for $500,000. The event was run as race four, and contested over seven furlongs by a field of eight.

Phillip Parchment winning aboard Sir Ganga Jamuna. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)

Favourite at 2-5, Absolute Blue, entered by Freemantle, fell, resulting in a comfortable 3½-length victory for trainer Dalton Sirjue’s Sir Ganga Jamuna (Phillip Parchment) in the $200,000 tag race five, run on the 5½-furlong course. This was Sirjue’s second from 13 declarations this season and Parchment’s eighth winning mount from 111 opportunities.

Run at 6½ furlongs, race six was the second on the card for the DaCosta/Halledeen trainer/jockey collaboration, with Formality (4-5) a 2½-length winner from in front. With even-money-backed Fidelity scoring by just under one length over the straight course of the three-year-old restricted non-winners of two races. DaCosta confirmed his triple and the Foster double as well, in this seventh event on the card.

Race eight, a maiden event for three-year-olds, run on the extended nine-furlong circular course, Gary Subratie’s Crown Court, with 2023 champion Reyan Lewis executing the riding honours, outstayed the nearest of six rivals by nearly five lengths.

In the closing event for Overnight Allowance campaigners on the five-furlong straight course, Jaheim Anderson, to ensure his riding double was confirmed, coaxed a victory margin of just over three lengths out of versatile Linguist(4-1). Interestingly, the versatile Anthony Nunes-conditioned four-year-old filly won the 10-furlong 2025 Jamaica Oaks. Remarkably, this is Linguist’s success sprinting at five furlongs this season, and she delivered it in good style.

The Training Feat Award is presented to Anthony Nunes for presenting Linguist in the kind of condition to execute the Best Winning Gallop. Whilst Jaheim Anderson picks up the Jockeyship Award for yet another display of judgment of pace, balance, and judicious use of his whip in assisting both of his winners.