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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Learie lands his Ombre Rose

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Kelvin "N"
1403 days ago
20210917
Learie Seecharan

Learie Seecharan

Learie Seecha­ran has re­turned to the win­ner's en­clo­sure at Hast­ing Race­course. The Twen­ty-five-year old Trinidad and To­ba­go's jock­ey en­tered the win­ner's cir­cle for the fourth time when he guid­ed the win­ner's en­clo­sure on Mon­day night in the fi­nal event on the day's sev­en-race card at Hast­ings Race­course in Cana­da.

Two weeks ago Learie cel­e­brat­ed his third win of the 2021 rac­ing sea­son. Last week Mon­day, he al­so en­tered the win­ner's cir­cle when he guid­ed Om­bre Rose to vic­to­ry.

Learie re­peat­ed the per­for­mance last night when he guid­ed Om­bre' Rose to a com­fort­able six lengths vic­to­ry in the fi­nal event over One and One-Six­teenth Mile on the dirt in the Claimer for a purse of $12,000.

The Mark Clouti­er trained fil­ly Om­bre' Rose was well sup­port­ed at odds of 7-5 as the favourite and again won im­pres­sive­ly.

Just like in the race which she won two weeks ago Om­bre Rose Rose was first to show un­der Seecha­ran by was be­ing pressed by the 2-1 shot Princess Soiree with Time­less Shrug close up in third with Done That con­tent­ed to ob­serve from the rear. Go­ing to the far turn, Learie Seechran asked his Om­bre' Rose to hold her po­si­tion at the head of af­fairs as Princess Soiree chal­lenge the lead. It was here that Done That moved aside Time­less Shrug and be­gan to close.

How­ev­er, with two fur­longs to race Om­bre Rose and Seecha­ran quick­en up and the fil­ly be­gan to glide away from Princess Soiree as Done That con­tin­ued to run. A con­fi­dent Seecha­ran asked his mount to go win her race with a fur­long to race and the Roy and Dix­ie Ja­cob­son owned fil­ly quick­ened away from the Princess Soiree and Done That. In­side the fi­nal fur­long, it was one-way traf­fic as Om­bre' Rose drew five lengths clear of Done That which moved in­to sec­ond ahead of Princess Soiree which was weak­en­ing. At the line Om­bre' Rose was an im­pres­sive win­ner in the time of 1:46.47. Done That fin­ished sec­ond with Princess Soiree for third. Om­bre' Rose added to her maid­en suc­cess in style while giv­ing Learie Seecha­ran his fourth win­ner.

Twin-broth­er Lenny Seecha­ran who fell two weeks ago, vis­it­ed the doc­tor yes­ter­day. He has rid­den fif­teen win­ners thus far, will be seek­ing to im­prove his record when he rides in three races on Tues­day Night. Learie will al­so be in ac­tion in three events.

The Seecha­ran's twin broth­ers Lenny and Learie (Jnr) have both shown good form at Hast­ings Race­course and are look­ing for­ward to a good rac­ing year.

The twins made their rac­ing de­buts to­geth­er as 19-year-old ap­pren­tice jock­eys at San­ta Rosa Park in Trinidad on March 28, 2015. Lenny made his way to Hast­ings in 2017 and has re­turned there every year there­after with Lenny cop­ping the Ap­pren­tice Ti­tle in 2019.


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