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Monday, February 17, 2025

Nuclear Power explodes at Santa Rosa Park

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Kelvin "N"
1800 days ago
20200315
Nuclear Power, the five-year-old Harriram Gobin trained with Venezuelan jockey Wilmer Galviz flying home to win race5, the Santa Rosa  Dash  (GR 111) from his challengers  General JN with jockey Prayven Badrie and  Spokein Yuh Wheel with Dillion Khelawan on the saddle yesterday at Santa Rosa Park Arima.

Nuclear Power, the five-year-old Harriram Gobin trained with Venezuelan jockey Wilmer Galviz flying home to win race5, the Santa Rosa Dash (GR 111) from his challengers General JN with jockey Prayven Badrie and Spokein Yuh Wheel with Dillion Khelawan on the saddle yesterday at Santa Rosa Park Arima.

Ralph Banwarie

An ante-post favourite for last year's Gold Cup run Nu­clear Pow­er showed just why she was placed in that po­si­tion af­ter she won the fea­ture Grade Three - San­ta Rosa Dash race over 1,200 me­tres at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma on Sat­ur­day.

The vic­to­ry was record­ed by a half-a-length to de­ny Gen­er­al JN with the Glenn Mendez trained Spoke In Yuh Wheel, who was a fur­ther half-a-length be­hind. The win­ning time was 1:11..63.

Pun­ters were on the ball and in­stalled the Har­ri­ram Gob­in trained five-year-old grey mare as the even-mon­ey favourite to win the 'Dash' which meant she had to beat the Stew­ards Cup and Sian's Gold win­ner Ear­ly Bird, Horse of the Year 2019, Juice Man and the tal­ent­ed Gen­er­al JN from the John O'Brien barn.

When the starter sent the eight-horse field on its way, Ear­ly Bird the Cham­pi­on Sprint­er of 2019, was first to show and be­fore they raced 100 me­tres, for­mer cham­pi­on sprint­er Whis­per Light pushed his way to the front. The duo was then joined by the Shiv­am Ma­haraj owned Nu­clear Pow­er, along with the speedy Pause­fora­coors. Gen­er­al JN was con­tent­ed to tracked the pace with Spoke In Yuh Wheel and Set Sail as Juice Man had to rid­den along to keep pace.

At the far turn, Ear­ly Bird held a slight ad­van­tage from Nu­clear pow­er with Gen­er­al JN clos­ing as Pause­fora­coors and Whis­per Light tried to keep in touch.

At the cor­ner, Galviz gave Nu­clear Pow­er the of­fice and the fil­ly by Mis­sion Im­paz­i­ble/High Qual­i­ty quick­ened clear im­pres­sive­ly to open a three-length gap on the chas­ing pack head­ed by Ear­ly, Bird, Gen­er­al JN, and Spoke In Yuh Wheel which was be­ing pro­duced with a good run by Dil­lon Khelawan. Pun­ters who backed Juice Man on this oc­ca­sion be­gan to put their tick­ets in the bins the Horse of The Year was push­ing along and mak­ing no progress to­wards the lead­ers.

In­side the fi­nal 100 me­tres, Nu­clear Pow­er be­gan to idle in the lead and Gen­er­al JN and Spoke In Yuh Wheel got much clos­er than ex­pect­ed.

The mar­gin of vic­to­ry does not give a true in­di­ca­tion of the au­thor­i­ty go Nu­clear Pow­er vic­to­ry.

Rid­ing ho­n­ours for the day went to Wilmer Galviz who rode a dou­ble aboard the Har­ri­ram Gob­in trained and Shiv­am Ma­haraj owned pair of Nu­clear Pow­er and Pon­tius Pi­late.

In the first event for the Clas­sic three-year-old, the Richard Fred­er­ick trained CP Jet scored an up­set vic­to­ry in the fourth event for West In­di­an Bred Three-Year-Oldsover 1750 me­tres. The Patrick Boyce owned fil­ly came from last to first to score im­pres­sive­ly by four lengths from Sweet Car­o­line. She has ad­ver­tised her in­ten­tion for the first jew­el of lo­cal rac­ing's "Triple Crown.'

Rac­ing will take a rest this week but re­turn on 28th of March.


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