Outsiders rock Reggae 6

A TRIO of consecutive outsiders rocked the back end of Saturday's Reggae 6, sending a $20.7 million single-winner bonus to Ash Wednesday's mandatory payout day, a jackpot which could double on a bumper day for Pick 6 players with a Twilight 6 carryover of $4.1 million.

Robert Halledeen opened the 10-race card with the first of three chalks, Jason DaCosta's 3-5 favourite, LONDON SPIRIT, before AMAZING FORCE won at similar odds followed by another short-priced winner, RUM WITH ME at 2-5.

UNCAPTURED EMPRESS started the storm at 10-1 in the fourth, followed by OH MY GOSH at 5-1 and SPRAGGA landing the coup de grace at 4-1 in the sixth.

Halledeen later returned to leave punters muttering to themselves on the way home, striking in the night pan with 67-1 stunner WHIZZ KIDD, who reversed more than a year of dismal form to send bets crashing.

Running the rail from post-position one, six-year-old WHIZZ KIDD turned for home sixth behind RANI BANGALA, who fought off multiple challenges from WHISKY, ANTARCTICA, ABILITY and MILOS down the backstretch.

Surging forward inside the last half-furlong, WHIZZ KIDD caught RANI BANGALA close home, crashing surviving Twilight 6 and Ketch 9 tickets, resulting in five-of-six and eight-of-nine payouts, $22,941 and $246,247.50, respectively.

Meanwhile, MONEY MARKET closed fast on the stands' side to overhaul lightweight MIGHTY GULLY stealing home in the Reggae Month Trophy at five furlongs straight, completing a second consecutive win since finishing second to Florida invader OF A REVOLUTION in the grade-one Bruceontheloose Sprint on Mouttet Mile Day, December 6.

An impressive winner on Boxing Day, beating overnight-allowance runners at six and a half furlongs, super-fit MONEY MARKET was drawn best with Dane Dawkins on the faster stands' side.

Running against open-allowance company, MONEY MARKET clocked 57.2, a victory which graduates the six-year-old to grade one, franking his Bruceontheloose form.

In contrast, United States-bred OF A REVOLUTION, a strong winner of the Bruceontheloose on his local debut, failed for a third consecutive race to show the speed which he had used to dismiss fellow American DESERT OF MALIBU, before finishing two lengths clear of MONEY MARKET closing from off the pace.

MONEY MARKET won at odds of 2-1 with Dawkins, who joined Raddesh Roman on 11 winners atop the jockeys' standings, notching his seventh winner in three meets following last Saturday's five-timer.