ED­MON­TON – Trinida­di­an jock­eys Bri­an Boodram­s­ingh and Kei­h­ton Nat­era, along with Bar­ba­di­ans Desmond Bryan and N’Ri­co Prescod, all logged wins on Fri­day’s ab­bre­vi­at­ed card at Cen­tu­ry Mile in Al­ber­ta, Cana­da.

Nine races were orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for the evening’s pro­gramme at the west­ern Cana­da oval but the last two were scrapped due to equip­ment mal­func­tion.

The quar­tet, how­ev­er, made the most of the races up for grabs. Vet­er­an Bryan, 52, led off the Caribbean ef­fort when he cap­tured the cur­tain-rais­er, car­ry­ing 2-1 chance Ms Mi­ni War­rior to a 1-1/2 length win in a 350-yard dash for three-year-old and up­ward quar­ter hors­es.

Boodram­s­ingh, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s reign­ing cham­pi­on jock­ey, won race four in for­tu­itous cir­cum­stances with Force to Rekn With when favourite Miss­czech, with Ja­maican rid­er Dane Nel­son aboard, was dis­qual­i­fied af­ter fin­ish­ing first.

In a 5-1/2 fur­long sprint for the three-year-old and up­ward fil­lies and mares, Nel­son thought he had tak­en the five-year-old mare to vic­to­ry on­ly to have the stew­ards in­ter­vene and squash the re­sult due to in­ter­fer­ence.

Force to Rekn With, who missed out by a head, was award­ed the win with Miss­czech placed sec­ond.

Prescod made his pres­ence felt in race five over 5-½ fur­longs when he com­bined with 5-1 chance To­ri­ador to edge out the three-year-old and up­wards by a neck.

To­ri­ador, a sev­en-year-old brown geld­ing, set the pace from the break but was forced to fend off the fast-fin­ish­ing 2-1 bet Asy­oube­lieve be­fore tak­ing the win.

Nat­era fol­lowed up in a five fur­long sprint in race six when he made all the run­ning aboard 3-1 chance Lil Zap­per to dis­miss the three-year-olds and up­ward by a half-length.

CMC