Husbands’ sizzling form continues

TORONTO, Canada – Veteran Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands maintained his imperious added-money form at Woodbine on Saturday, sweeping both feature races on the 11-race card in front-running style.

The seven-time champion first partnered with hot favourite Owlette to win the CAN$100 000 Victorian Queen Stakes in race seven, and then returned in race nine with 4-1 choice Jean Elizabeth to capture the $100 000 Sweet Briar Stakes

With the success, the 46-year-old Husbands moved his stakes tally for the season to 15 – the most by any rider during the campaign. He lies fifth on 51 wins in the jockeys’ standings with earnings of $2.5 million.

Husbands opened his account in a six-furlong trip with the bay filly Owelette, trouncing the two-year-old fillies by 2-½ lengths in a time of one minute, 10.10 seconds, to land a record fifth Victorian Queen Stakes.

Owelette set a brisk pace, hauling the field through sharp splits of 22.24 seconds for the quarter and 45.51 for the half, with Victorian Moon right alongside on the outside and a gap of two lengths back to She’s a Dream and Bambarra Bay.