Senor Biscotti lands AnyBet feature

SENOR BISCOTTI yesterday tracked pacesetters SKY IS THE LIMIT and UNCLE NALLY, each cutting the other’s throat, eventually benefiting from a collapsing pace a furlong and a half out to land the AnyBet 12th Anniversary Trophy at six and a half furlongs.

Sprinting three and three-quarter lengths clear of a rallying UNCLE NALLY after SKY IS THE LIMIT started drifting under pressure a furlong and a half out, SENOR BISCOTTI redeemed his credentials for this season’s three-year-old classics after finishing down the track in the Prince Consort Stakes 15 days prior.

Ridden by claiming jockey Tajay Suckoo, SENOR BISCOTTI, who had failed to escape WE JAMMIN by a neck when they first met as two-year-olds last season, could next face the Prince Consort winner and Triple Crown favourite in the Kingston race at seven and a half furlongs should Richard Azan decide to take his chances in the 2000 Guineas prep set for May 9.

SENOR BISCOTTI clocked 1:20.3, going as marginal second choice, sharing odds of 7-5 with favourite UNCLE NALLY, who bothered bred-to-sprint SKY IS THE LIMIT for five and a half furlongs, causing the exhausted filly to drift badly in the stretch run.

Meanwhile, Tevin Foster rode two winners on the 10-race card, including SUDDEN FLIGHT, who notched his sixth straight win out the straight course among $200,000 claimers.

Foster kept SUDDEN FLIGHT’s win streak intact, prevailing by a short head from fast-finishing SPLENDID VISION. The eight-year-old gelding won at five furlong straight, clocking 1:01.4, one of two winning favourites on the Reggae 6, which returned $20,091 after opening with a 9-1 upsetter, CONTROL AGRESSION, who closed fast along the rail to go by 3-5 favourite GREYLIGHTNING close home.

Last year’s Jamaica Derby and St Leger winner, I DREAM AGAIN, won his first race in almost nine months, making all with Robert Halledeen to land the second event at seven furlongs, beating fellow non-winners of four races by three lengths.

United States-bred THOUSAND TREASURES, a non-winner of three races, tried closing in the stretch run but was safely held by the local-bred, who will next race among overnight-allowance runners.

Foster played Reggae spoiler in the third aboard LUCY IN THE SKY, who pulled away from 8-5 market-springer BIG BIG DADDY to pull off a mild 6-1 upset at six and a half furlongs, upstaging even-money favourite MIDNIGHT GALAXY, who finished an inexplicable fifth after being widely used as a banker among $700,000 claimers.

BARNABY franked RIDEALLDAY’s Ian Levy track-record form, the second horse to have returned a winner from the event following SUPERNATURAL POWER’s cracking run at a mile on Saturday. BARNABY powered away from fellow American GIRVANO, who won a dogfight for second with NEO STAR.

Down-in-class SHOOTING STAR stamped his class on $1.5m claimers, closing the Reggae 6 at odds of 5-2, a length clear of 4-5 favourite RANI BANGALA.

The Reggae 6 returns on Saturday, opening with a single-winner bonus of $10.2 million.