Orville Clarke, Freelance Writer
HUSSEY AND FRANCIS
PAUL FRANCIS and veteran Charles Hussey, third and fourth in the standings, shared the riding honours with three winners each at Caymanas Park yesterday.
Francis reeled off the last three including 12-1 upsetter SHOW N'TELL in the new-look Jockey Club Stakes over 1400 metres.
The two-time champion apprentice also won aboard 3-1 chance ANAMALANIA for in-form Anthony 'Baba' Nunes, upstaging her lesser fancied stable companion SOY MOJER in a driving finish, before capping a great day in the saddle with an easy victory aboard 9-5 favourite POWER CRACKER for trainer Joseph Thomas in the closing race to push his season's tally to 38.
Hussey, who a week earlier was conferred with the national honour, the Order of Distinction (OD), breezed through the first part of the programme with a quick triple.
This comprised the two-year-old debutante SUPER NATURAL for leading trainer Wayne DaCosta at 1-9 in the first race for the Dr. David Levy Plaque, stable-companion DEARDREAMER at 8-5 in the third for the Keith Binns Plaque and 4-5 favourite TOBAGO for his brother Percy Hussey and mom, Ruth, in the fourth race for the Howard Hamilton Plaque.
SHOW N'TELL FIGHTS BACK
Hussey, a four-time champion jockey, continues to hold down fourth place with 36 winners.
SHOW N'TELL came from last to first to win the Jockey Club Stakes, which prior to this year was contested exclusively by native bred three-year-olds. However, last year it was abandoned and when it was rescheduled some weeks later, only five three-year-olds took the field.
This year, CTL applied to the Jamaica Racing Commission to open the race to three-year-olds and up and to change the status to an overnight allowance race as well. The result 10 faced the starter yesterday.
Though not the best away as the 6-5 second favourite KAMIR under leading all-time jockey Winston Griffiths made most ahead of RUN PAPA RUN and PRINCESS CHIO-NESO, SHOW N'TELL made good headway on the outside to straighten not far adrift in fourth.
But KAMIR, who was racing for the first time since flopping as the favourite in the 2000 Guineas on April 2, never looked fluent in the run to the furlong pole and was overhauled by the fast-finishing SHOW N'TELL midway through the last furlong.
At the wire, SHOW N'TELL, who won in the good time of 1:25.3, had 1 1/2 lengths to spare over KAMIR with the even-money favourite AD INFINITUM (outpaced) under Trinidadian jockey Brian Harding staying on for third on the inside, a farther 2 1/2 lengths away.
SHOW N'TELL, who finished a disappointing sixth to UNTOUCHABLE as the 3-2 favourite on the previous Saturday when contesting the Joseph Ashenheim Memorial Bowl over 2000 metres, is owned, trained and bred by Paul Fung.
The winner is a four-year-old bay colt by Prime Rate Powers out of Bump 'N' Whine. He had previously won over 1700 metres on April 30 with Francis at the helm.
Trainers DaCosta and Nunes shared the training honours with two winners each, while Harding rode two winners in JACK EM UP (6-1) and top weight THE MINISTER (2-1) for Nunes and Elias Haloute in the open allowance race.
