Kelvin N

Mani­ram "Boboy" Ma­haraj has been hav­ing the qui­etest time of his train­ing ca­reer but last Sat­ur­day, the for­mer cham­pi­on train­er re­turned to form to win two of the eight races at San­ta Rosa Park, Ari­ma.

The largest, sin­gle stake­hold­er in rac­ing had a wel­come re­turn to the win­ner's en­clo­sure, a place he did not fre­quent for the sea­son. Over the years, Ma­haraj would al­ways be in the fir­ing line for the train­ers ti­tle but this year was his worst start in his 50 years of sad­dling hors­es in the Sport of Kings.

How­ev­er, Ma­haraj came back to form on Sat­ur­day, when he sad­dled a dou­ble with My Babes and Cham­pagne On Deck. Clear­ly, the shrewd own­er-train­er, who holds the dis­tinc­tion of breed­ing, own­ing and traing a Der­by Win­ner is back and the rest of the 2009 sea­son could see Ma­haraj re­turn­ing to the win­ner's en­clo­sure fre­quent­ly.

Train­ing ho­n­ours for the day fell to Chadee who sad­dled three win­ners, one more than Mani­ram Ma­haraj, who came to form with a vengeance, sad­dling a dou­ble through My Babes and Cham­pagne On Deck. No jock­ey was able to land two win­ners on the day's eight-race card.