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Bangarang fattens Reggae 6 purse
April 28, 2025
CLAIMING rider Richie Shakes gave Sunday's Reggae 6 payout some respectability by booting home debutant BANGARANG at odds of 4-1 in the opening event, the longest shot for a $10,070 dividend.
Consecutive favourites, RUN JULIE RUN and BERN NOTICE, afterwards set the stage for a meagre Reggae 6 payout, winning at odds of 2-5 and 4-5, respectively.
RUN JULIE RUN, the brave filly who lost last year's Jamaica Derby by a half-length to CROWN CHASER, yesterday posted a routine victory in the Legal Light Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards, booking her ticket back to grade one after being beaten at the level by ATOMICA in November's Jamaica Cup.
After two failed attempts in three weeks against foreigners, who she had avoided in December's Mouttet Mile, RUN JULIE RUN got relief in the Legal Light against inferior company.
With her job made easier by stablemate GEOLITHIC, who dragged former stablemate NEO STAR down the backstretch, RUN JULIE RUN sat third off the fray with Reyan Lewis before going second a half-mile out.
Pointing on GEOLITHIC three furlongs out from along the rail, RUN JULIE RUN straightened in charge but was soon hounded by a rallying NEO STAR. Showing her undisputed class, already proven in grade one against ATOMICA, RUN JULIE RUN sprinted clear to win by two and three-quarter lengths in 1:57.0 ahead of INSPIRE FORCE closing from downtown.
LINGUIST, SILVER FOX and ANOTHER MISSION rounded off the Reggae 6, which returns on Saturday with a single-winner bonus of $3.9 million.
