OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (CMC):
Jamaican Jermaine Bridgmohan completed the second jockeys' championship win of his fledgling career on Monday when he comfortably topped the standings at the 2009 Remington Park horse racing season.
On Monday's final day of the four-month season, Bridgmohan scored three wins for a stylish end to his successful campaign here.
The former Calder Tropical champion had also recorded a triple success on Sunday to land six wins in the last two days of the racing year.
Bridgmohan picks up the Pat Steinberg Award as leading jockey in his first Remington Park season.
The 21-year-old native of Spanish Town in St Catherine, Jamaica, won Monday's US$41,410-first race aboard the 2-to-1 second favourite Pleasantly Blessed.
Coming from behind, Pleasantly Blessed finished fast on the outside to win the day's richest event by half-length in 1:38.11.
In the US$8,000 third race over six furlongs, Ww Conquistador (4-1) scored by a head in 1:11.88 with Bridgmohan using another stirring come-from-behind ride.
Bridgmohan completed his three-timer in the US$29,500-seventh race over 1-1/16th miles with the favourite Fire Brewed (5-2) by 3-3/4 lengths in 1:46.76.
Bridgmohan is the younger brother of the more accomplished 30-year-old Shaun Bridgmohan, who scored two wins on Monday at Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
Jermaine Bridgmohan had a brilliant start to his career, landing the 2006/07 Tropical Calder Meet crown in Florida as an 18-year-old in his first full year race-riding.
He captured that Calder title with a record-breaking 110 winners in early January 2007 but was badly hurt in a fall at Gulfstream the following week and was sidelined for several months.
He suffered another fall soon after his return in another setback.