CALGARY, Alberta – Young Barbadian jockey Rico Walcott has climbed to fifth spot in the Stampede Park jockeys' championship after winning four times in the last two race days.

Rico, the younger brother of top jockey Rickey Walcott, scored two wins Wednesday to complement his double success on the previous race day Sunday.

His recent successes propelled him from eighth to fifth in the jockeys' table.

Leading Barbadian jockey Quincy Welch and Jamaican Kenyatta Davis also scored wins on Wednesday as Caribbean riders swept half of the eight-race card.

Rico Walcott kicked off his double by landing the CAN$6 800 fourth race over six furlongs with the 2-to-1 second favourite
Dream Queen.

The four-year-old filly shot to the front under Walcott at the far turn and quickened impressively to score by 4-1/2 lengths in one minute 11.00 seconds.

Walcott also scored in the CAN$16 536 seventh race over six furlongs with the four-year-old filly Bank Deposit (2-1) by half-length in 1:11.20.

On Sunday, Rico Walcott had won the CAN$6 900 second race
in a huge upset with the 27-1 outsider Koloa Victor and he also captured Sunday's CAN$7 200 sixth race with Special Ruckus.

Meanwhile, Welch moved further ahead in the jockeys' title race when he won the CAN$6 500 eighth race over six furlongs with the seven-year-old gelding Fleeting Glance by three-quarters of a length in 1:11.20 at odds of 7-1.

With 25 wins so far this season, Welch is seven ahead of his nearest rival Rickey Walcott (18), with Stephan Heiler and Shannon Beauregard sharing third on 10.

Rico Walcott (9) and Real Simard (8) are fifth and sixth, respectively.

Davis got his win with in the CAN$6 500 third race over six furlongs with the favourite Ms Copper Futures.

Going off at odds of 3-2, the four-year-old filly battled to a narrow victory under David in 1:13.00, edging the 4-1 chance Shantico at the finish. (CMC)