Ainsley Walters, Staff Reporter
SIMPLEXITY, with jockey Trevor Simpson aboard, sprints clear of rivals to win Tuesday's 1000-metre straight sixth race at Caymanas Park. SIMPLEXITY was one of three winners for Simpson on the 11-race Labour Day holiday card. PRINCESS JACQUELINE (left) finished third.- RICARDO MAKYN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
MUSICAL MAESTRO should win his second race in a row tomorrow afternoon by landing the Jamaica Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame feature event at 1200 metres.
The Dwight-Chen-trained four-year-old gelding outsprinted track record holder FLYING TIGER and speedy SI MI TRIAL at 1000 metres straight on May 6, inching away at the end after stalking his speedier rivals onto the main track.
Chen's runner will report significantly heavier, moving from 51.0 to 57.0 kilos for the Open Allowance event, but will be better suited to the round course where he has chased home the likes of QUIET STRENGTH on three occasions in Graded Stakes company this season.
WORKING WELL
Champion trainer Wayne DaCosta's SI MI TRIAL has been working exceptionally well since losing to MUSICAL MAESTRO, ripping 59.2 for five furlongs round last Sunday morning. She has only picked up a kilo and will try running rivals off their legs down the backstretch.
However, her last two efforts have been far from convincing, leading DaCosta to have her treated with lasix after hanging on to beat middle-distance runner JUST SOME THOUGHTS in an ordinary 1:14.1 for six furlongs on April 1.
Returning with lasix last time out, SI MI TRIAL was outsprinted by FLYING TIGER and was left standing when MUSICAL MAESTRO charged at the battling duo inside the final half-furlong.
She will certainly lead but not unmolested as MUSICAL MAESTRO is no slouch and MEDICAL REPORT will have to get involved in the early pace if she's to have any chance. In addition, if EXPLOSIVE PEAK gets a clean break, DaCosta's filly will have the field snapping at her heels as Brian Harding will try saving her for the home run.
Jockey Chris Fearon only needs stalk the speedier runners for the first three furlongs before testing their mettle approaching the home turn from where MUSICAL MAESTRO should prove strongest as he's a muscular gelding, with his main rivals being fillies.
Peter McMaster's EXPLOSIVE PEAK reports pretty light after recovering from a low start to beat Overnight Allowance horses last month. Similar to SI MI TRIAL, she has trained well, but has developed a tardy gate habit, which won't do her any good up in class.
SET TO POST TWO-TIMER
Chen looks set to post a two-timer as his three-year-old debutant in the sixth race, FABULOUS P, is tipped to upstage Philip Feanny's ELECTRO SMART, who stopped the hammer at $1 million at the yearling sale.
FABULOUS P galloped with MUSICAL MAESTRO out of the straight on Monday morning, clocking 1:02.0 behind a half-mile split of 47.4.
ELECTRO SMART is expected to take the bulk of the betting but looks suspect reporting on lasix the first time out and hasn't really impressed at exercise despite clocking 1:01.0 from the gate on Monday.
However, Feanny should also saddle back-to-back winners American-bred FOUND IN THE MIST in the eighth at 1400 metres and HERECOMESFUDGIE in the ninth at 2000 metres.
FOUND IN THE MIST was quietly fancied when debuting at 1200 metres earlier
this month, but was slowly away and ran an even race. She returns treated with lasix and working like a bomb, clocking 1:00.0 for five furlongs round last Monday morning.
