TORON­TO – Bar­ba­di­an rid­er Patrick Hus­bands com­bined with 9-5 choice Fash­ion­ably Fab to crush the three-year-old fil­lies and win the CAN$100 000 Ash­bridges Bay Stakes at Wood­bine in Cana­da.

In one of two added-mon­ey races on the day’s nine-race card on Fri­day, the 50-year-old stalked the pace with the dark bay fil­ly be­fore ac­cel­er­at­ing in the stretch and pulling away to win by 6-1/2 lengths in a time of one minute, 44.34 sec­onds.

Favourite Tito’s Call­ing fin­ished sec­ond while 33-1 long­shot Seat­tle Cause­way ran third.

“To­day I tried to make sure I didn’t take a hold of her. I tried to ride her like the best horse,” Hus­bands said af­ter­wards.

“I just kept her in the clear and she got the job done. She turned out to be a nice fil­ly.”

Seat­tle Cause­way broke well to lead the field, pro­duc­ing frac­tions of 25.28 sec­onds for the quar­ter and 49.67 for the half-mile, with Fash­ion­ably Fab on her flank, 5-1 bet Veri Giz­mo just off the pace in third and Tito’s Call­ing and Souper Sin­clair bat­tling for po­si­tion.

The race quick­ened at the three-eighths pole, Hus­bands tak­ing aim at the leader and Tito’s Call­ing tak­ing clos­er or­der.

Fash­ion­ably Fab then head­ed Seat­tle Cause­way on the fi­nal turn and came away with the lead, dom­i­nat­ing the stretch run with a su­perb turn of speed to be with­out a chal­lenger at the wire.

The vic­to­ry was the third suc­ces­sive stakes win for Fash­ion­ably Fab fol­low­ing her con­quests in the Ron­deau Bay at Fort Erie on Sep­tem­ber 12 and the Eter­nal Search on Oc­to­ber 22 at Wood­bine.

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