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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Mendez can stop O'Brien in Feature

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Kelvin "N"
1806 days ago
20200801
Champion Jockey Brian Boodramsingh pushed his charge Apocalypse, trained by John O’Brien, past his challenger General JN on rails with Kerron Khelawan to win race five, the Modified Benchmark Handicap for three-year-old horses rated 80 and over out at Santa Rosa Park, Arima on July 4.

Champion Jockey Brian Boodramsingh pushed his charge Apocalypse, trained by John O’Brien, past his challenger General JN on rails with Kerron Khelawan to win race five, the Modified Benchmark Handicap for three-year-old horses rated 80 and over out at Santa Rosa Park, Arima on July 4.

Sports Desk

For­mer cham­pi­on train­er Glenn Mendez will at­tempt to stop cham­pi­on train­er John O'Brien who will at­tack with hors­es in to­day's fea­ture event over 1,600 me­tres on the turf course at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma.

The fea­ture Hand­i­cap for Three-year-olds Hors­es Rat­ed 80 and Over will see nine hors­es fac­ing the starter in what promis­es to be a com­pet­i­tive fea­ture.

Head­ing the field is the Glenn Mendez trained, Horse of The Year 2019, Juice Man who has been al­lot­ted 50 ki­los in the event. Juice Man will be part­nered by Ricky Jadoo and if this horse takes to the turf, this race is as good as fin­ished. With 50 ki­los Juice Man is primed to star in the event. Mendez will al­so have the tal­ent­ed Spoke In Yuh Wheel in the line-up and he will be rid­den by Learie C Seecha­ran with 51 ki­los. This one has an out­stand­ing chance in the event. He will cer­tain­ly stay well and if Juice Man fails to fire he could land the spoils for Mendez.

Cham­pi­on train­er John O'Brien's three-pronged at­tack with Gen­er­al JN, Apoc­a­lypse and Thisones­for­ron. Ker­ron Khelawan will be astride the top-weight Gen­er­al JN who will car­ry 58 ki­los but this horse is un­proven on the turf.

Cham­pi­on jock­ey Bri­an Boodram­s­ing will part­ner Apoc­a­lypse who will car­ry 52.5 ki­los and this horse must have a re­al­is­tic chance if tak­ing to the turf.

How­ev­er, the nine-year-old Thisones­for­ron which will be rid­den by ap­pren­tice Ki­mal San­to must have an out­stand­ing chance of win­ning this event. He is not the force of old but showed enough last time out, to let you know that with 52.5 ki­los he could up­set them all es­pe­cial­ly if the turf is good to soft or soft­er.

The tal­ent­ed Root of Jesse who is well treat­ed with 51 ki­los must have a great chance on his best form. Train­er Har­ri­ram Gob­in at­tacks the event with two runers in Com­mand­ing Fash­ion and Stock­yard. The for­mer has shown lit­tle in her in the last few starts while Ronald Ali will part­ner the sta­ble's main hope Stock­yard which is al­lot­ted 52 ki­los.

There will be sev­en races on to­day's pro­gramme and post time is 1:05 pm.


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