WIN­NIPEG – Bar­ba­di­an An­to­nio White­hall was crowned cham­pi­on jock­ey at the Assini­boia Downs race­track in Cana­da for the third time in his ca­reer in Man­i­to­ba, Cana­da on Wednes­day.

The 29-year-old closed the rac­ing sea­son with a dou­ble win on the sev­en-race mid-week card at the cen­tral Cana­di­an race­track to end with 56 wins from 284 mounts and clinch the ti­tle he pre­vi­ous­ly won in 2018 and 2020.

It was the sec­ond time in five days that White­hall had a dou­ble win af­ter he did the same thing on Mon­day’s race card, and this en­abled him to end the sea­son lead­ing the mon­ey list among the colony of jock­eys at the track with CAN $687 380 – no one else to­talling in ex­cess of half mil­lion dol­lars.

He got his first win of the day by a neck aboard the 6-5 favourite Lucky Chuc­k­ee in the CAN $10 226 claim­ing fifth race over 1 100 me­tres on the dirt.

Lucky Chuc­k­ee du­elled for the lead on the out­side of Witt’s Ro­jo, un­der Trinidad & To­ba­go jock­ey Stan­ley Chadee, dur­ing the first half of the race, but White­hall got the four-year-old, dark bay geld­ing to edge away in the stretch for a time of one minute, 05.45 sec­onds.

White­hall again had to go to work when he drove the 2-1 favourite War­rior’s Map to vic­to­ry by the slimmest of mar­gins – a nose – in the CAN $13,200 claim­ing fi­nal race over one mile on the dirt to fit­ting­ly bring the sea­son to a close.

He raced War­rior’s Map near the back of the nine-horse field for the first half of the race be­fore he got the six-year-old, bay horse to take a short lead three-wide ear­ly in the fi­nal turn and hold on in the stretch to clock 1 min, 40.65 secs.

Al­so win­ning on the card was Bar­ba­di­an jock­ey Re­nal­do Cum­ber­batch for the 24th time this sea­son to fin­ish sev­enth in the stand­ings, com­pa­tri­ot Shavon Belle got his 11th win to end 13th, and Ja­maican Arthur Bud­hu got his 10th to close 11th.

CMC