NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – Patrick Husbands, on winter break from Woodbine in Canada where he is champion jockey, scored the sixth win of his stint at Fair Grounds when he landed the fifth race on Monday's card.

The Barbadian 34-year-old rider finished fast astride the 6-to-1 bet Woodford Girl and won the one-mile run by 3-1/4 lengths.

Husbands, who only arrived here mid-January – seven weeks after the meet started – after a short trip home to the Caribbean, is currently just outside the Top-20 on the riders' list.

Jamie Theriot is the leading rider with 68 wins, followed by Robby Albarado (53) and Jamaican Shaun Bridgmohan (51).

When Husbands landed the US$39 750 Maiden Special Weight fifth race, he was scoring his first win here in just over a week.

Displaying one of his trademark patient, come-from-behind rides, Husbands held the three-year-old filly at the back of the field while the favourite Coeur d'Arc led from early.