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Surprise winners ensure sizeable Reggae 6 payout
June 02, 2025
WHO lost, not who won, ensured Saturday's Reggae 6 payout of $169,493 was worlds apart from the previous week's paltry $1,223 on six winning favourites.
Though not approaching Labour Day's mandatory payout of $486,325, Saturday's Reggae 6 was tricky from the opening event with 5-2 chance CHIEF DISSIDENT turning tables on five rivals, who had taken turns finishing ahead of him in his six previous races.
If CHIEF DISSIDENT's win was a jolt, MONEY MISER landing the second at 3-1, relegating 3-5 favourite SONNY T AND CHIPPY to third behind runner-up RANI BANGALA, was a widely used banker being floored, emphasising how horses' form can fluctuate whenever they change barns, especially at the claiming box.
Winning easily for O & S Racers out of Adrian Prince's barn on January 18 and chasing MAMMA MIA early February, SONNY T AND CHIPPY's only red flag was being claimed off the win on March 29.
Saturday marked SONNY T AND CHIPPY's third start out of Dale Murphy's barn, returning among $1.5 million claimers, who he had beaten out of sight on March 29. Down-in-class MONEY MISER easily stalked SONNY T AND CHIPPY and RANI BANGALA down the backstretch before running through along the rail in the stretch run.
Hot riders tend to attract blind cash such as ALKEBULAN being installed even-money favourite with leading and champion jockey Raddesh Roman in the third, despite not being nowhere as speedy as CHERRY BLOSSOM, who duly made all at 3-2 at five furlongs straight, another dagger to a suspect Reggae 6 banker.
Though winning easily as a 3-5 favourite, United States-bred MAIN MISTRESS' previous run, beaten into third behind locals IMMEASURABLE JOY and BRENDA BOY, scared the hell out of bettors, who would have normally banked the American off prior efforts, forcing multiple selections in the fourth as opposed to the fifth, which really needed that approach.
Were the weekend column's advice followed, "The fifth is also an event in which multiple selections should be carried, no fewer than six, to include HEIROFFIRE, STORM VALLEY, SIR GANGA JAMUNA, LAST DANCE, LITTLE GROVY THING and MUZZO", 7-1 chance SIR GANGA JAMUNA would have been caught in the dragnet.
However, advice to "bank ALIVE in the sixth" backfired. The rule of thumb re exposed maiden three-year-olds was not adhered to hence NUCLEAR JET, blinkers off and tongue-tie on, second start and first run from Enos Brown's barn, forcibly drove home the reminder at odds of 5-1.
