FORT ERIE – Two-time reign­ing cham­pi­on Christo­pher Hus­bands and ex­pe­ri­enced Trinida­di­an rid­er Steve Jadoo shared ho­n­ours at Fort Erie in Cana­da on Tues­day when they both logged braces on the sev­en-race card.

Bar­ba­di­an Hus­bands, 32, won with fa­voruite Niko­laou in race one over a mile and 70 yards be­fore re­turn­ing to cap­ture race three over a mile and six­teenth with an­oth­er favourite More Savvy.

Not to be left out, the 30-year-old Jadoo scored in race five over six fur­longs with 8-1 choice Crafty Con­quest and fol­lowed that up with vic­to­ry aboard 3-1 chance Jibaro in a 5-½ fur­long sprint in race six.

With the suc­cess, Hus­bands moved to 22 wins for the sea­son to stretch his lead at the top of the stand­ings, eight clear of Ja­maican Kirk John­son and Pierre Mail­hot.

Jadoo has made on­ly six starts for the sea­son, win­ning three times.

Hus­bands opened his ac­count when he steered five-year-old chest­nut geld­ing Niko­laou to a com­fort­able 1-½ length vic­to­ry over the three-year-olds and up­ward, af­ter stalk­ing the pace­set­ter Grand Giz­mo and pro­duc­ing a strong stretch run.

His sec­ond win was a dom­i­nant one, mak­ing all the run­ning with five-year-old bay mare More Savvy to stun the three-year-old and up­ward fil­lies and mares by six lengths.

Jadoo was suc­cess­ful in his first out­ing of the af­ter­noon, stalk­ing aboard six-year-old geld­ing Crafty Con­quest be­fore head­ing pace­set­ter Sum­mer Re­treat at the top of the stretch and run­ning on to reach the wire 1-1/4 lengths clear.

He wast­ed lit­tle time reach­ing the win­ners’ cir­cle again, this time part­ner­ing with four-year-old geld­ing Jibaro to edge the three-year-olds and up­ward by a neck, in a gate-to-wire ef­fort.

CMC