- Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer
Lady Indira wins the fifth race for the Rhoel Rhoden Memorial Trophy for two-year-olds in fine style at Caymanas Park yesterday. She was one of three winners for champion jockey Brian Harding.

Orville Clarke, Freelance Writer

The four contenders for this year's jockeys' championship all rode winners at Caymanas Park yesterday, but reigning champion Brian Harding led the way with three winners to rejoin Wesley 'Callaloo' Henry at the top of the standings.

Starting the day two adrift of Henry, Harding wasted no time in making inroads as he won the opening race aboard 6-5 favourite OLE KING COLE, outfinishing Henry aboard the highly fancied AITCHEMESBEAGLE.

The seven-time Trinidadian champion followed up aboard 2-1 chance LADY INDIRIA in the fifth race for the Rhoel Rhoden Memorial Trophy (1100m) confined to maiden two-year-olds and 3-1 shot KINGSTONIAN in the 11th race over the straight five course for overnight allowance horses.

Course specialists humbled

Both OLE KING COLE and LADY INDIRIA are trained by his guv'nor Anthony 'Baba' Nunes, while KINGSTONIAN, who returned from a 13-month absence to humble the course specialist DOUBLE BOW, is trained by 14-time champion Philip Feanny for popular owner Joseph 'Fudgie' Duany.

Harding thus pushed his season's tally to 56 to draw level with Henry who rode one winner, 8-5 chance SI MI TRIAL in the third race over 1100 metres for open allowance horses. The 4-y-o filly, who last year won the 1000 Guineas, made virtually all, thwarting a strong challenge from stable-companion and 1-2 favourite CLOCK WORK (Charles Hussey) up the lane.

Henry failed by a whisker to ride a second winner when the front running HAWAIIAN DANCER (8-5 fav) was caught on the line by the highly fancied MOST WANTED in the ninth race.

Hussey rode two winners for his family in BLACK RIVER (5-2) and RED RIVER CAT (1-1 fav), while Trevor Simpson booted home 4-5 favourite TOTAL MOTION (made all) in the day's feature for the Ossie Steele Memorial Cup over 1100 metres. Owned by Leo's Stables and trained by Steadman Curtis, TOTAL MOTION won by 5 1/2 lengths in a field of 11.

Harding and Henry are co-leaders with 56 wins, followed by Simpson and Hussey with 49 wins each.

Meanwhile, two more apprentices from the batch of 15 which recently graduated from the Jockeys' School rode their first winners. They are Jason Simpson aboard 4-1 chance LATIN KING in the second race over the circular nine course and Harriston Lewis aboard the 19-1 outsider CRUSADER'S RALLY in the closing conditional race for maiden three-year-olds.

They join Omar Walker (3), Javour Simpson (2), Kevin Blake and Oral Bennett as the new apprentices to have ridden winners.

The Pick-9 proved elusive for an eighth consecutive raceday, the carryover to Wednesday being a whopping $5.8 million.