Bridgmohan dominates with double Stakes win

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida (CMC):

Jermaine Bridgmohan won two of four stakes races on horses conditioned by Marty Wolfson on Saturday's 13-race card at Calder Race Course.

The Jamaican jockey won the US $85,000 Unbridled Stakes with the favourite Coffee Boy, and returned to capture the US $65,000 U Can Do It Handicap on another favourite First Passage.

The two wins meant that Bridgmohan now has four stakes victories for the year on the Florida circuit - three coming here.

Coffee Boy beat Dream of Atlantis, under Jose Ortiz, by three-quarters of a length in the Unbridled Stakes for three-year-old colts.

The animal covered 1,200 metres in the 10th race on the dirt in one minute, 11.05 seconds.

Responding to the pressure

Bridgmohan chased the pace with Coffee Boy three wide into the stretch, and the animal responded to pressure to wear down Dream of Atlantis to be up late.

First Passage beat Saratoga Tango, another Wolfson trainee, by a half-length in the U Can Do It handicap for fillies and mares three-years-old and up in the next race.

First Passage had a winning time of 1 min, 11.21 secs for the 1,200m trip for her third stakes victory, following captures of the Leave Me Alone and Azalea Stakes last year.

Bridgmohan advanced on the four-year-old, dark bay filly four-wide around the turn, gained the lead at the sixteenth pole, and was fully extended to hold off Saratoga Tango, under Elmer Nunez.

Jose Pinchin, another Jamaican, saddled odds-on favourite Rosalinda, the winner of the US $17,000 fifth race, which went 1,600m for his daughter Tracy.

Ridden by leading jockey Luis Saez, Rosalinda clocked 1 min, 42.76 secs, after setting the pace, and drawing off while being ridden out.