Brian Harding - file

ARIMA, Trinidad (CMC):

Champion jockey Brian Harding went winless Saturday and lost ground in Trinidad and Tobago's jockeys' championship race.

Leading jockey Ricky Jadoo had one victory to climb to 25 wins and Harding slipped to third as he was overtaken by in-form apprentice Keishan Balgobin.

Balgobin registered a double triumph that vaulted him into second spot on 19 wins, one ahead of Harding and Venezuela's Luis Rodriquez, who share third on 18 wins.

Jadoo got his victory with the three-year-old colt Raw Pleasure in the seventh race, scoring by 8-1/4 lengths in the 1100-metre sprint, stopping the clock at one minute, 06.20 seconds.

Balgobin secured his wins in the fourth and eighth races.

Narrow win

He won narrowly with the five-year-old mare Rohana in the fourth race and beat Jadoo's mount Contango by half-length to win the eighth race astride the three-year-old filly Soca Diva.

The afternoon's main event, the Allowance sixth race over 1600 metres on turf, went to the five-year-old mare My Tale under Rodriquez.

My Tale won the US$7,214 event by 6-1/2 lengths in 1:37.00.