CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia, CMC – Barbadian jockey Reshawn Latchman maintained his place in the top three of the jockeys’ standings at the Charles Town racetrack with a double on Friday’s nine-race card.
He has 32 wins for the season and is third in the standings behind experienced reinsman Arnaldo Bocachica, the leader with 58, and second Marshall Mendez, on 39.
Latchman got his first win aboard the 4-5 favorite Royal Pain by a head in the U.S. $34 900 sixth race over 1 700 meters on the dirt track.
He put Royal Pain in a stalking position, started a challenge leaving the seven-sixteenths pole, and moved to even terms midway on the far turn before he got the four-year-old chestnut colt to grab the edge approaching the head of the lane and dug in through the stretch to clock one minute, 48.29 seconds.
Latchman followed up when he brought the curtain down with another win astride the odds-on favorite Broad Imagination in the U.S. $16 000 final race over 1 300 meters on the dirt.
He moved Broad Imagination to the inside early and was firmly rated to set the pace. Still, the three-year-old bay colt came under pressure leaving the quarter pole, and the horse dug in under steady encouragement to keep the nod through the last strides to finish in 1 min, 23.68 secs.
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