Quincy Welch (File Photo) - Poised for 7th consecutive Stampede Park jockeys' title

CALGARY, Alberta, CMC - Quincy Welch advertised his prolific form again Sunday with three wins at Stampede Park including the Mount Royal Stakes aboard the favourite Dancing Allstar.

 

Welch captured the CAN$53,550 Mount Royal Stakes and two other events on the nine-race card to record a remarkable fourth triple success in the last five race days.

 

Champion here for the last six years in a row, Welch is now perfectly poised to retain his jockeys’ championship title.

 

With just six weeks remaining in the season, he has 45 wins to lead arch-rival and fellow Barbadian Rickey Walcott by 21 wins.

 

Walcott failed to ride a winner on Sunday and remains second on 24 victories. Stephan Heiler is third on 17 wins.

 

Welch's compelling form saw him open his Sunday account with the 7-to-5 favourite Ubettorubet winning the CAN$18,032 first race over six furlongs.

 

The three-year-old filly led the eight-horse field and won by 2-1/2 lengths in one minute 11.80 seconds.

 

The 29-year-old champion rider got his next win in the Mount Royal Stakes for three-year-old fillies with the 2-5 favourite Dancing Allstar, Canada's champion two-year-old for 2007.

 

He pushed the three-year-old filly to an easy front-running victory in the six-furlong sprint, scoring by 5-1/2 lengths in one minute 10.20 seconds.

 

Littlemiss Allison (2-1), with Walcott up, was second.

 

Welch completed a remarkable fourth three-timer in a week by capturing the CAN$16,224 eighth race over six furlongs with the 7-5 favourite Maria's Touch by 2-3/4 lengths in 1:10.20.

 

Welch also had triple successes last Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday and has now ridden 18 winners in the last seven race days.

 

Rico Walcott and Desmond Bryan also won on Sunday as Barbadians maintained their prominence at the downtown Calgary racing facility.

 

Walcott, the younger brother of Rickey Walcott, steered the 8-1 bet Koloa Victor to victory by a length in the CAN$11,536 second race over six furlongs in 1:12.00.

 

Bryan won the CAN$12,300 ninth race over six furlongs by a neck with the outsider Pistachio.

 

Going off at odds of 21-1, Pistachio fought off the 14-1 shot Filly’s Gone Wild in deep stretch and won narrowly in 1:11.00.

 

Stampede Park Top-10 riders

 

1 Quincy Welch 45 wins

2 Rickey Walcott 24

3 Stephan Heiler 17

4 Shannon Beauregard 15

5 Rico Walcott 14

6 Real Simard 10

6 Ron Blinston 10

8 Daniel Boudreau 7

8 Perry Winters 7

8 Desmond Bryan 7

 

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