T&T sprint­er Jereem Richards was in omi­nous and un­stop­pable form on Sun­day at the New Bal­ance In­door Grand Prix which was held at the Ocean Breeze Ath­let­ic Com­plex on Stat­en Is­land, New York in the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca.

'The Dream' as he is af­fec­tion­ate­ly known, pro­duced a per­son­al best time of 45.83 sec­onds in sprint­ing to the gold medal of the Jesse Lou­bier Memo­r­i­al Men's 400m me­tres event, hold­ing off a com­pet­i­tive field that saw three out of the top four run­ners ei­ther pro­duc­ing per­son­al best or sea­son's best times.

Run­ning out of lane four, Richards led from start to fin­ish, de­spite be­ing trailed close­ly by Amer­i­can Ver­non Nor­wood, the even­tu­al sil­ver medal win­ner who pro­duced a sea­son's best time of 46.06 sec­onds.

Amer­i­can Kah­mari Mont­gomery, who was one of three Amer­i­cans in the top five of the event was third for the bronze medal, pro­duc­ing an equal­ly quick 46.24 sec­onds, while Cana­di­an Phil Os­ei grabbed fourth in a new sea­son's best time of 46.59 sec­onds. An­oth­er Amer­i­can Noah Williams se­cured the fifth po­si­tion in 47.08 sec­onds.

Mean­while, an­oth­er T&T run­ner Rue­bin Wal­ters could on­ly man­age a sev­enth-place fin­ish in the men's 60-me­tre hur­dles of the same event.

Wal­ters didn't get the start he had hoped for but still fin­ished with a sea­son's best time of 7.76 sec­onds. The race was won by Amer­i­can Grant Hol­loway in 7.37 sec­onds, with his com­pa­tri­ots dom­i­nat­ing the oth­er four po­si­tions. Trey Cun­ning­ham (USA) took the sil­ver in 7.47 sec­onds, De­von Allen (USA) third in a sea­son's best 7.51 sec­onds, while Daniel Roberts (USA) 7.60 and Fred­die Crit­ten­den (USA) 7.71 sealed the fourth and fifth po­si­tions.