TORONTO – Caribbean jockeys have assumed their customary position in the top frame of the Woodbine riders' championship standings a month into the 2008 season at Canada's premier racing facility.

Trinidad and Tobago's Emile Ramsammy is second with 13 wins, while Barbadians Patrick Husbands and Jono Jones also hold Top Five spots.

James McAleney is leading rider with 14 wins, one ahead of Ramsammy, followed by Eurico Da Silva (12), with reigning champion Husbands fourth on 11 wins and Jones joint fifth on ten.

Husbands and Ramsammy were among the winners at the latest race day on Sunday.

Ramsammy, a two-time Woodbine champion who was third in last year's title race, scored his win in the CAN$47 882 second race over seven furlongs with the three-year-old gelding Hot As Ice.

A 7-to-2 second favourite in the eight-horse field, Hot As Ice led the field and won by two lengths in one minute, 23.27 seconds.

Husbands, whose outstanding season last year earned him a fifth Sovereign Award as Canada's Most Outstanding Jockey, used the five-year-old gelding No Dilettante to win the CAN$69 522 fourth race over six furlongs.

No Dilettante showed good speed to lead and won by half-length in 1:09.43 under Husbands, who rode 149 winners last year including 21 stakes triumphs en route to his fourth Woodbine jockeys' title.

There was also a victory for Trinidadian jockey Anthony Stephen, who scored by three-quarters of a length on the 9-1 shot Cianorte, in the CAN$31 200 first race over 1-1/16th miles in 1:46.81. (CMC)