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Friday, April 4, 2025

Whitehall wins $100 000 Speed to Spare, Prescod rides double

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Sport Desk
585 days ago
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Barbadian rider Antonio Whitehall.

Barbadian rider Antonio Whitehall.

ED­MON­TON – An­to­nio White­hall tast­ed added-mon­ey suc­cess on Sat­ur­day’s lu­cra­tive card at Cen­tu­ry Mile when he com­bined with 3-1 choice Great Es­cape to win the CAN$100 000 Speed to Spare Cham­pi­onship Stakes in Cana­da.

Go­ing a mile and fourth for the three-year-olds and up­ward in one of the day’s sup­port­ing fea­ture races, White­hall guid­ed the four-year-old brown geld­ing to a 1-3/4 length win in a time of two min­utes, 04 sec­onds flat.

Trinida­di­an jock­ey Bri­an Boodram­s­ingh was sec­ond aboard rank 45-1 out­sider Itsmy­day while Ja­maican Dane Nel­son took 7-1 bet Gla­va to third, bare­ly hold­ing off favourite At At­ten­tion with An­to­nio Reyes aboard.

Gla­va and an­oth­er 64-1 long­shot Rail­way tus­sled through the quar­ter run in 22.58 sec­onds and the half in 46.66, be­fore Gla­va dis­missed his ri­val to open up a near two-length lead on the far turn.

White­hall raced Great Es­cape just off the pace ear­ly on but then went in pur­suit of the lead­ers, catch­ing Gla­va in the stretch and pulling away in the fi­nal yards to win hand­some­ly.

Bar­ba­di­an jock­ey N’Ri­co Prescod al­so grabbed some of the spot­light at Cen­tu­ry when he won twice on the pro­gramme.

He opened his ac­count in race three over a mile and five-eighths when he paired with 4-1 bet Lone­some Cat to trounce the three-year-olds and up­ward by 2-1/2 lengths.

Long­shot Pren­ton led briefly at the start be­fore Lone­some Cat picked up the run­ning leav­ing the Grand­stand Turn and nev­er re­lin­quished it.

Prescod re­turned in race sev­en with War Gi­ant, car­ry­ing the favourite to a nar­row win over the three-year-olds and up­ward, go­ing sev­en fur­longs.

Nine-to-one choice Scho­choh, 8-1 bet Sharp Dressed Beau and 5-1 chance Es­tifraad all con­test­ed the lead ear­ly on be­fore Prescod brought his eight-year-old chest­nut geld­ing from well off the pace to edge the field by a neck.


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