Mex­i­can rid­er Ed­er Frayre surged to the top of the field in Di­vi­sion 1 of the To­ba­go In­ter­na­tion­al Cy­cle Clas­sic Fri­day morn­ing, show­ing tremen­dous en­durance and sta­mi­na to emerge vic­to­ri­ous in Stage 2 to win the gru­elling 90 kilo­me­tres race which start­ed and fin­ished at Shaw Park.

T&T's Ak­il Camp­bell, com­pet­ing for Team Heat­wave, fin­ished in sec­ond spot, more than two min­utes be­hind the Mex­i­can, post­ing a time of (2: 14. 49.98) and USA's Sam Smith, rid­ing for Bike Works p/b Fred Beans, fin­ished third in the stage in the time of 2:14.50.16.

Frayre, who rep­re­sents the Le­gion of Los An­ge­les team, has so far stamped his class on the clas­sic and af­ter he stormed home as the run­ner-up po­si­tion on Thurs­day’s open­ing 20-kilo­me­tre race, showed con­sis­ten­cy by im­prov­ing on this per­for­mance to cross the fin­ish line in a com­mend­able time of two hours, 12 min­utes, 23.98 sec­onds (2:12.23.98). In an event that took the rid­ers through along the Claude Noel High­way, un­to the Mil­ford Road in Low­lands and then back to the start in a 10-lap cir­cuit.

Vet­er­an Emile Abra­ham con­tin­ued to pro­duce jaw-drop­ping per­for­mances with his fourth-place fin­ish in 2:14: 50.27, re­mind­ing all of his pedi­gree as the win­ner of a sil­ver medal in the men's in­di­vid­ual road race at the 2007 Pan Amer­i­can Games. He now oc­cu­pies the third over­all po­si­tion af­ter two days of the Clas­sic, hav­ing crossed the fin­ish line in the sixth po­si­tion on Thurs­day morn­ing (2:33.52.97).

Jonathan Brown of Mi­a­mi Blaz­ers, who en­tered the day as over­all leader af­ter win­ning the first stage of the event, fal­tered in the con­di­tions and pace set by the front run­ners and had to set­tle for sixth place yes­ter­day in a time of 2:14.51.24 min­utes, but still re­mains in sec­ond place over­all and in con­tention for the clas­sic’s crown.

Oth­er no­table per­for­mances came from Gavin Hlad­ly (Heat­wave) in 2:14.50.83, Ma­teo Cas­tane­da (Raiders) in 2:14.51.94, T&T's Liam Trepte (Raiders) in 2:14.52.27 and An­drew Scara­no (Team Phar­ma­co/JLD) who se­cured po­si­tions fifth, sev­enth, eighth and ninth re­spec­tive­ly.

Mean­while, in Di­vi­sion 2 - which com­prised elite males, u-19 men and women, and mas­ters - Ja­di­an Neaves surged to the lead for the over­all ti­tle with a win­ning time of 1:11.52.91

Syn­del Sama­roo, the ris­ing T&T sprint ace took the run­ner-up spot in 1:14.35.971, with An­dre Greene (1:14.36.374) in third and Alexi Ramirez (1:14.37.528) fin­ish­ing in an en­cour­ag­ing fourth place.

The clas­sic con­tin­ues to­day start­ing with Stage Three start­ing and end­ing at Post Of­fice Junc­tion on Wil­son Road, with the Scar­bor­ough Cri­teri­um with a start time of 8 am. The course will take cy­clists north on Wil­son Road on Gar­den side Street, right on Cas­tries Street, right on­to Wil­son Road fin­ish­ing at the junc­tion mak­ing 60 laps on a flat and fast sur­face.