Fifty-two-year old cham­pi­on jock­ey of T&T Ricky Jadoo took the 2018 Jock­ey's Cham­pi­onship ti­tle af­ter a gru­elling bat­tle with Bri­an Boodram­s­ing which end­ed on Box­ing Day last year. Jadoo took the ho­n­our when he re­pelled the chal­lenge of Boodram­s­ing to hold on by one win.

Jadoo cre­at­ed his­to­ry by be­com­ing the old­est jock­ey to win the Trinidad Der­by, when he pi­lot­ed the Glenn Mendez trained Mer­lin Sam­lals­ingh owned Cape Canaver­al to vic­to­ry on Re­pub­lic Day - Sep­tem­ber 24th.

Glenn Mendez be­came the cham­pi­on train­er in both cat­e­gories, Wins and Earn­ings, as he pro­duced Cape Canaver­al to win the Der­by in im­pres­sive fash­ion.

The cham­pi­on own­er was again Shiv­am Ma­haraj who has now as­sumed con­trol of this award. Ma­haraj thir­ty-two hors­es scored 34 wins for earn­ings of $1,386.9998 in­clud­ing the Gold Cup which was won by his Nu­clear Pow­er.

How­ev­er, the race­horse which topped the Earn­ing’s cat­e­go­ry was the John O’Brien trained Gen­er­al JN which was beat­en in the Der­by by Cape Canaver­al. Gen­er­al Jn scored four vic­to­ries and fin­ished one sec­ond and one fourth from six starts to earn $296,316 for the year. Cape Canaver­al which has raced un­beat­en in four starts was just some $23,000 back in sec­ond.

2018 RAC­ING STA­TIS­TICS - ‘TOP 5’

HORS­ES *1st * 2nd * 3rd * 4th * Earn­ings

G Gen­er­al JN * 4 * 1 * 0 * 1 * $296,316.00

Cape Can­ev­er­al * 4 * 0 * 0 * 0 * $273,745.00

Streak­ing Far * 3 * 3 * 2 * 2 * $211,465.00

Nu­clear Pow­er * 2 * 2 * 2 * 0 * $190,102.00

Princess Suri * 4 * 2 * 0 * 0 * $175,352.00

JOCK­EYS

Ri­car­do Jadoo *34 * 28 * 29 * 29 * $1,373,464.00

Bri­an Boodram­s­ing *33* 27* 27* 22* $1,075,618.00

Ronald Ali *27* 16 * 23 * 20* $915,401.00

Dil­lon Khelawan *26* 27 * 29* 14 * $1,014,466.00

Ri­co Her­nan­dez *24* 21 *20* 20 * $835,220.00

OWN­ERS

Mr. Shiv­am Ma­haraj *34 * 30 *28 *27 *$1,386,896.00

Mr. Dave Chadee *32* 32 * 23 *26 *$1,100,369.00

Er­rol Sta­bles *14 * 11 * 12 * 7* $529,131.00

Mr. Jer­ry R Narace * 7 * 3 *3 * 5 * $441,549.00

Mr. Mer­lin Sam­lals­ingh* 6 * 5 * 2* 2* $429,681.00

TRAIN­ERS

Glenn Mendez *47* 45 * 40 * 29* $2,033,337.00

John O’Brien *39 * 27 * 27* 23 * $1,526,316.00

Harold Chadee *32 * 32 *23 * 26 *$1,100,359.00

Har­ri­ram Gob­in *26 *20 * 25* 16 * $954,317.00

Shaf­fique Khan * 19 *17* 16 * 22 * $691,204.00