Sudden Flight maintains winning streak

TEVIN Foster kept Sunday's Reggae 6 banker SUDDEN FLIGHT's win streak intact, prevailing by a short head from fast-finishing SPLENDID VISION, aboard the eight-year-old gelding, who notched his sixth straight win out the straight course among $200,000 claimers.

SUDDEN FLIGHT won at five furlong straight, clocking 1:01.4, one of two winning favourites on the Reggae 6, which returned $20,091 after opening with a 9-1 upsetter, CONTROL AGGRESSION, who closed fast along the rail to go by 3-5 favourite GREYLIGHTNING close home.

Last year's Jamaica Derby and St Leger winner, I DREAM AGAIN, won his first race in almost nine months, making all with Robert Halledeen to land the second event at seven furlongs, beating fellow non-winners of four races by three lengths.

United States-bred THOUSAND TREASURES, a non-winner of three races, tried closing in the stretch run but was safely held by the local-bred, who will next race among overnight-allowance runners.

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Foster played Reggae 6 spoiler in the third aboard LUCY IN THE SKY, who pulled away from 8-5 market-springer BIG BIG DADDY to pull off a mild 6-1 upset at six and a half furlongs, upstaging even-money favourite MIDNIGHT GALAXY, who finished an inexplicable fifth after being widely used as a banker among $700,000 claimers.

BARNABY franked RIDEALLDAY's Ian Levy track-record form, the second horse to have returned a winner from the event following SUPERNATURAL POWER's cracking run at a mile on Saturday. BARNABY powered away from fellow American, GIRVANO, who won a dogfight for second with NEO STAR.

Down-in-class SHOOTING STAR stamped his class on $1.5m claimers, closing the Reggae 6 at odds of 5-2, a length clear of 4-5 favourite RANI BANGALA.

The Reggae 6 returns on Saturday, opening with a single-winner bonus of $10.2 million.