EDMONTON, Alberta (CMC):

Champion jockey Rickey Walcott and Quincy Welch shared four wins to lead a familiar Barbadian dominance on Friday evening's card at Northlands Park.

Walcott and Welch, easily the most successful jockeys at Canada's Alberta racetracks this decade, scored two wins each, while Walcott's younger brother Rico Walcott and Desmond Bryan also won Friday to give Barbadian riders six wins on the nine-race card.

In the first race for two-year-olds over 3-1/2 furlongs, Rickey Walcott won with the 4-1 chance Dandy Dora by 3-1/2 lengths in 39.20 seconds.

Walcott, champion at Northlands Park for the past three years in a row, also easily won the ninth race over 1-1/16th miles with the favourite What the Devil (5-2) by 7-1/4 lengths in 1:46.00

Five-time champion Welch landed the fifth race over 6-1/2 furlongs in a thrilling finish with Prospect Begonia at odds of 6-1.

In a stirring finish that saw four horses flash past the winning post within half-length of each other, the classy Welch snatched victory with Prospect Begonia by a neck in 1:17.40 over the 3-2 favourite Sparhawk.

Impressive win

Bad Hat (4-1) was only a nose further back in third with fourth place finisher CR Jag (4-1) a neck behind Bad Hat.

Welch impressively won the eighth race over six furlongs with the four-year-old gelding Ecton's Gem in 1:11.60.

A 5-1 bet in the eight-horse field, Ecton's Gem was held off the pace early and came flying — four wide — in the homestretch to snatch victory by a neck under Welch, who was champion here every year from 1999 to 2004 with the exception of 2001 when Perry Winters was champion.

Young Rico Walcott won the CAN$11,500 sixth race over six furlongs with Toga Cat (3-1) by three lengths in 1:12.00.

Desmond Bryan picked up his fourth win of the season with the favourite Oh Who Knows (5-2) by four lengths in the CAN$7,100 third race over 6-1/2 furlongs, scoring in 1:20.20.