CHARLES TOWN, West Vir­ginia – Bar­ba­di­an jock­ey Re­shawn Latch­man had a mem­o­rable day in the sad­dle on Wednes­day’s eight-race card at the Charles Town race­track.

The 31-year-old had one of his best sea­son on the North Amer­i­can cir­cuit last year and he has start­ed the new sea­son strong­ly, cul­mi­nat­ing with him win­ning half the races on the mid-week card to move in­to the sec­ond in the jock­eys’ stand­ings – eight be­hind long-serv­ing Ar­nal­do Bo­cachi­ca.

Latch­man drove the 9-2 choice Sag Har­bor to a two-length win in the U.S. $21 800 sec­ond race over 1 300 me­tres on the dirt.

He set­tled Sag Har­bor in­side on the first turn and pro­duced the five-year-old, chest­nut horse near­ing the sev­en-six­teenths pole, and his mount im­proved at the rail on the far turn and dug in un­der steady en­cour­age­ment leav­ing the fi­nal turn be­fore rac­ing clear to­wards the wire for a time of one minute, 20.95 sec­onds.

Af­ter fin­ish­ing last in the third race aboard Buy Here Pay Here, Latch­man re­turned with a vengeance and won three in a row to seal his red-let­ter day.

Latch­man steered 5-1 Roy­al Pain to a 1-3/4 lengths win in the U.S. $35 100 fifth race go­ing sev­en fur­longs on the dirt.

Roy­al Pain had the ear­ly lead, but came un­der threat from 3-5 favourite Ic­ing, un­der Justin Lewis, past the half mile pole and gave up the lead briefly on the far turn be­fore Latch­man got the three-year-old, chest­nut colt to re­cov­er and hold firm with steady en­cour­age­ment to fin­ish in a time of 1 min, 27.26 secs.

Latch­man had his most im­pres­sive win in the U.S. $38 700 sixth race when he pi­lot­ed the 13-1 out­sider Like­able to a three-length score over 1 300 me­tres on the dirt.

Like­able was nev­er head­ed in this race af­ter tak­ing over at the quar­ter pole and the five-year-old, bay geld­ing re­sist­ed late pres­sure to clock 1:19.10.

Latch­man fol­lowed up with a 4-1/2 lengths win aboard the 5-1 choice Aim’s Ju­bilee go­ing 1 300 me­tres on the dirt.

He put Aim’s Ju­bilee to stalk off the rail on the first turn and pro­duced the three-year-old, dark bay fil­ly leav­ing the half mile pole and took the lead past the sev­en-six­teenths and drew clear for a time of 1:22.21.

CMC