Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Cana­da-based ap­pren­tice jock­ey Lenny Seecha­ran last week won the Hast­ings Race­course’s 2019 Cham­pi­on Ap­pren­tice ti­tle.

The 23-year-old won 18 races to be­come the cham­pi­on, as he end­ed with two more wins than Jose Asce­nio with ten and six more than his twin-broth­er Learie Seecha­ran with six.

The Trinida­di­an broth­ers had been tipped to ex­cel by sev­er­al train­ers and top jock­eys at the race­course and have cer­tain­ly lived up to that billing.

Dur­ing the last card, Lenny land­ed Ex­pen­sive Taste for train­er Mike An­der­son and his broth­er en­sured there was a dou­ble for them when he land­ed Mar­shal Swin­dle at odds of 15-1, al­so for An­der­son. Lenny then went on the land Silent Ea­gle at odds of 4/1 for train­er An­di­azi Collins.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia about the achieve­ment, Lenny said, “I was hap­py to have rid­den the two win­ners for train­er (John) Snow as the hors­es trav­elled well in the race and picked up when I asked him to run. My in­ten­tion was to get as much ex­pe­ri­ence as I can and land as many win­ners as pos­si­ble for the 2019 sea­son.”

Lenny thanked God for his suc­cess and his agent for the tremen­dous job which he did. He al­so thanked his valet for his ef­fort with both his broth­er Learie and him­self and the train­ers who gave him the hors­es to help him win the Hast­ings Cham­pi­onship.

Both Seecha­rans are ex­pect­ed to do T&T proud again as the lo­cal rac­ing sea­son con­tin­ues.

Last year, the iden­ti­cal twin broth­ers-act moved out Hen­rik and Daniel Sedin, the Swedish twins who played for the Van­cou­ver Canucks in the NHL, from the Cana­di­an sport­ing lime­light. The pair have tak­en the British Co­lum­bia sports scene by storm with their per­for­mances in the lat­ter part of this year. Both Lenny and Learie had been rid­ing Sat­ur­days and Sun­days for the past three months of the thor­ough­bred sea­son at the Hast­ings Race­course.

The twins made their rac­ing de­buts to­geth­er as 19-year-old ap­pren­tice jock­eys at San­ta Rosa Park in Ari­ma on March 28, 2015. Lenny made his way to Hast­ings in 2017 and af­ter fin­ish­ing in the mon­ey 30 times in­clud­ing five wins, he con­vinced Learie to join him for the 52-day meet this sea­son. They ex­celled on the open­ing day, Lenny fin­ished sec­ond and third in his two mounts and Learie wound up third in his on­ly ride of the day.