It turned out to be a stroll in the park for the Hamark Farms-owned Crucial Appeal, as the speedy colt easily brushed aside a relatively good field to win an Overnight Allowance event for three-year-olds and upward over 1,000 metres straight at Caymanas Park yesterday.

Claiming apprentice O’Brien White was asked to do the duties by trainer Patrick Lynch and with a mere 50.0 kilogrammes, Crucial Appeal (Crucial Trial – Late Appeal by Appealing Guy) made no mistake and obliged as the 4-5 favourite to register his third win from eight starts this season.

Crucial Appeal broke well but was surprisingly held off the pace led by the fleet-footed Winchester (Dushane Gordon up) for most of the way. When asked to go by White, with just two furlongs to run, the four-year-old chestnut colt responded well and that was that for his eight rivals as he cruised to a comfortable one-and-three-quarter-length victory.

The fast-finishing New Kingston, with Shamaree Muir in the saddle, was second ahead of the Richard Azan pair of Janiboutuce (Jemar Jackson astride) and Edison (Romario Saunders getting the leg up) in third and fourth positions, respectively.

Bred by Edison Chai, Crucial Appeal posted a blistering 0:57.0 seconds for the distance raced on a fairly wet track after a brief drizzling of rain.

“It was an easy race, no problems whatsoever. This horse is fast so I just held him off the pace a bit and by the time we reached the two-furlong point I knew that we would be in front so the victory was expected,” White said in the winners’ enclosure.

White completed a double when he piloted the Anthony Nunes-trained Lock And Loaded to another easy win in the ninth race, spanking Also Correct (Dick Cardenas astride) and Raja Saragi (Robert Halledeen up) by three-and-a-quarter lengths in a reasonable 1:27.1 minutes for 1,400 metres.

Meanwhile, former champion jockey Dick Cardenas (78) increased his lead in the jockeys’ championships by two when his steered Terra Marique to victory in the eighth race over 1,000 metres, as two-time defending champion Dane Nelson, who was winless on the 10-race programme, remains on 76 wins.

Cardenas, who was disqualified aboard Hologran Shadow in the seventh race on August 16, was reinstated as the winner after owner O’Neil Phillips’ appeal was successful.