$120 ticket holder among winners of $10m Reggae 6 payout - Rideallday turns table on Legacy Isle to win Mouttet Mile

SATURDAY's Reggae 6 mandatory payout, which hit the $10m mark - thanks to 99-1 outsider, THE SOUL WARRIOR - included a winning ticket staked for a measly $120.

The Reggae 6 started as predicted, GOOD CONSCIENCE landing the opening event as a 2-1 favourite, before THE SOUL WARRIOR upended bettors.

Partnered by Roger Hewitt for Donovan Russell, THE SOUL WARRIOR, a $350,000 August 1 claim, reversed his dismal form to split horses at the wire, winning a three-way photo by a nose ahead of CHESNEY with 3-2 favourite ROCK-OLA a neck away in third.

FRED THE MASTER's disqualification in the third, awarded to LINGUIST, knocked off bettors, who had used the Jason DaCosta runner as a banker in the third.

DON WESI, RANI BANGALA and DIESEL TRAIN were all fancied runners in races four through six, respectively, closing a whopping payout for winning tickets.

AVENGED LOSS

Later in the afternoon, RIDEALLDAY avenged October's Gold Cup loss to LEGACY ISLE, powering past his drifting rival a furlong out to hand 14-time champion trainer Philip Feanny a second Mouttet Mile triumph in three years and a win on Jamaican soil for visiting United States Hall of Famer jockey, Javier Castellano.

Sent to post as the 5-2 second choice behind Anthony Nunes' Florida invader, NAUTICAL STAR, three-year-old RIDEALLDAY went after LEGACY ISLE and PACK PLAYS leaving the half-mile marker, racing wide from post-position 11 in the 16-horse field vying for the US$300,000 event.

LEGACY ISLE, runner-up to FUNCAANDUN last year, had left the gate sharp, blazing 23.1 for the first quarter and 45.0 for the half-mile after a brief exchange with PACK PLAYS on the lead.

Sent clear of PACK PLAYS by Emisael Jaramilo, LEGACY ISLE appeared to have flown the coop with a three-length lead swinging into the home turn. Joining PACK PLAYS on the home turn, RIDEALLDAY still didn't appear on Jaramilo's radar until Castellano angled his mount towards the rail.

GLASS CHIN

Jaramilo, who had partnered LEGACY ISLE last year when caught at the wire by FUNCAANDUN, rallied the five-year-old in mid-track when RIDEALLDAY came calling along the rail. However, unlike the seven-furlong Gold Cup when the winning post intervened, LEGACY ISLE's glass chin at a mile was exposed by the Mouttet Mile for a second straight year, made worse by a six-furlong split of 1:10.0 and 1:23.2 a furlong from home.

Slowing considerably and drifting right under pressure, LEGACY ISLE surrendered to RIDEALLDAY, who charged home nine lengths clear, winning in 1:36.4, a Mouttet Mile record, two seconds faster than FUNCAANDUN's 1:38.4 when winning by a short head last year.

FUNCAANDUN, who only made the final cut on earnings after late withdrawals by Jamaica Derby winner, I DREAM AGAIN, and last year's derby runner-up, RUN JULIE RUN, closed for third place, worth J$4m to champion trainer Jason DaCosta, slashing arch-rival Anthony Nunes' J$8m gain with OF A REVOLUTION, who won the Bruceontheloose Sprint.

Nunes was aiming to land the feature double, the Bruceontheloose and J$45m Mouttet Mile with

NAUTICAL STAR for One Guyana Racing. However, NAUTICAL STAR, a sparingly raced five-year-old flown in from North America, could not emulate OF A REVOLUTION's win, outsped down the backstretch and flat in the stretch run, finishing ninth as the 2-1 favourite, crashing Nunes' hopes of dethroning DaCosta, champion trainer since 2022.