CAL­GARY, Cana­da – Dane Nel­son rode off with two added-mon­ey vic­to­ries as part of a four-timer as the Ja­maican dom­i­nat­ed Sat­ur­day’s ten-race card at Cen­tu­ry Downs.

Fresh from his ti­tle con­quest at Cen­tu­ry Mile in Ed­mon­ton ear­li­er this month, the 39-year-old made the head­lines at the west­ern Cana­da oval by win­ning the CAN$50 000 Al­ber­ta Fall Clas­sic Distaff in race three with favourite Dance Shoes and the $50 000 Al­ber­ta Pre­mier’s Fu­tu­ri­ty in race four with an­oth­er favourite It­sall­go­od­man.

In ad­di­tion, Nel­son cap­tured race two over six fur­longs with favourite Miss­czech be­fore al­so tak­ing race sev­en over a mile and six­teenth with 19-1 out­sider Rock­til­ly­oudrop.

Bar­ba­di­an Damario By­noe al­so tast­ed suc­cess, com­bin­ing with favourite Jeff Fa Fa to win the $50 000 Red Di­a­mond Ex­press in race eight.

Go­ing 6-1/2 fur­longs, By­noe made all the run­ning with the four-year-old chest­nut geld­ing to beat the three-year-olds and up­ward by 3-3/4 lengths in a time of one minute, 15,26 – a new track record.

How­ev­er, it was Nel­son who took the plau­dits in an ex­cep­tion­al out­ing. He opened his ac­count on the card when he pi­lot­ed the four-year-old Miss­czech to a 5-1/4 length score, beat­ing the three-year-old and up­ward fil­lies and mares with a gate-to-wire per­for­mance.

Nel­son then notched his first stakes suc­cess, pair­ing with five-year-old chest­nut mare Dance Shoes to col­lar the three-year-olds and up­ward.

Grace­ful Spir­it, the 29-1 long­shot, led through the half-mile un­der Bar­ba­di­an Da-Sean Gaskin be­fore Nel­son chal­lenged on the back­stretch, grabbed the lead on the far turn and pulled away to win by three lengths in a time of 1:44.36.

Nel­son quick­ly fol­lowed up in the Al­ber­ta Pre­mier Fu­tu­ri­ty, steer­ing the geld­ing It­sall­go­od­man to a crush­ing 8-1/4 length vic­to­ry over the two-year-old Al­ber­ta breds in a time of 1:17.07.

Thir­ty-to-one long­shot JJ’s Ca­per led ear­ly be­fore It­sall­go­od­man took over the run­ning leav­ing the back­stretch to dom­i­nate the stretch run.

Paired with Rock­til­ly­oudrop, Nel­son com­plet­ed his haul, this time car­ry­ing the five-year-old bay geld­ing to a nar­row win over the three-year-olds and up­ward, hold­ing off favourite De­coy by a neck at the wire.

CMC