TORONTO – Top Barbadian jockey Patrick Husbands scored a double and led a haul of five wins by Caribbean jockeys at the latest Woodbine horse racing meet.

Husbands, a four-time Sovereign Award winner as Canada's Jockey-Of-The-Year, captured the fourth and seventh races on the card, while his Barbadian colleague Slade Callaghan, Trinidad and Tobago's Emile Ramsammy and Jamaican Shane Ellis also registered wins.

The double by Husbands took him to within one of 50 victories so far this season. With 49 victories, he is fourth in the jockeys' standings, behind Emma-Jayne Wilson (73), Justin Stein (56) and James McAleney (51).

Husbands got his first win of the afternoon with the 8-to-5 favourite Cross Checker in the fourth race, scoring by 1-3/4 lengths in the 7-1/2 furlong event.

He completed his double with the 3-1 second favourite Quiet Action, a two-length winner of the seventh race. Ramsammy, a two-time Sovereign Award winner, drove the four-year-old filly Murani to an upset win in fifth race.

Always close to the pace in the Maiden Special Weight CAN$69 600 (BDS$127 000) event, Ramsammy roused Murani for a winning run at the top of the homestretch and won by three quarters of a length at odds of 18-1, edging Callaghan's mount Yes She's Lovely (19-1) at the finish.

Callaghan had won the first race by 1-1/4 lengths aboard the 4-1 bet Carysfort Light, and Ellis registered a stunning upset win in the CAN$72 300 (BDS$130 000) allowance tenth race with the five-year-old gelding Sunshine Canyon.

Ellis, a former Jamaica champion jockey, measured his race perfectly, pouncing on the leaders entering the final turn and driving his mount to a 1-3/4 length victory at odds of 42-1. (CMC)