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Multiple 2-1 winners boost Reggae 6 payout
June 30, 2025
A hat-trick of 2-1 winners - NAKAMURA, I AM INTERESTED and United States-bred MISS MARBELLA - ensured yesterday's Reggae 6 mandatory payout, closed by 5-1 chance DODGE THIS LINK, returned a decent $110,258.
Early bettors would have been jolted by recent runaway winner LUCY IN THE SKY's dismal display in the Reggae 6 opener. However, those with ear to ground, as well as odds-watchers, would have noted scepticism in the pool, which had NAKAMURA as a 2-1 market-springer.
I AM INTERESTED and MISS MARBELLA were popular selections as well as 9-2 chance SPRAGGA in the fourth, followed by 2-5 favourite MIDNIGHT RUNNER, before DODGE THIS LINK's form reversal ditched many bets.
Meanwhile, GIRVANO and IMMEASURABLE JOY delivered what the form lines predicted, heart-stopping, come-from-behind victories in their respective divisions of the Hubert Bartley Memorial, reminiscent of the finishes the man himself would have conjured among his 751 career wins and three riders' championships.
United States-bred GIRVANO, closing a two-timer for Jason DaCosta, gave the champion trainer a chest-thumping win against rival Anthony Nunes' SUPREMASI, Robert Halledeen rubbing salt into the wound by showboating shades from the wire, giving leading rider Raddesh Roman a bitter dose of his own medicine.
A grinding middle-distance runner, who warmed up with a flying third-place finish at five and a half furlongs on May 24, 1-5 favourite GIRVANO wore down local-bred SUPREMASI to win division one of the seven-furlong event by a head in 1:27.0, a two-horse race in the stretch run,16 lengths ahead of third-place MR SENATOR.
Nunes, however, would get his chance, IMMEASURABLE JOY weaving past horses to nail 7-1 market-springer ANTARCTICA stealing home under Shane Richardson.
Roman took his weekend tally to seven winners after Saturday's five-timer, moving to 61 winners.
Roman remains acres clear of Shane Ellis, who crept to 29 wins with a two-timer, I AM INTERESTED and PROVIDENT, landing the second and seventh races, respectively.
July opens with back-to-back meets this weekend, featuring the 10-furlong Jamaica St Leger on Sunday in which Guineas winners, filly BURNING HEDGE and colt SENSATIONAL SOUL, will clash in a battle of the sexes in the second leg of the Triple Crown.
