 Yeah, we're at the track covering the sport of Kings, coming up this week. The Winston Finer Griffiths Classic honoring a Jamaican riding legend at K-Manus Park serves up an upset result in a big margin win for the 30-to-1 shot, essential quality. Champion trainer John O'Bran sweeps Trinidad and Tobago's Independence Cup at Santa Rosa Park, stakes wins at Fort Erie for Barbadian Jockeys, Christopher Husband's the leading rider and Jason Hoyt. There's a new champion jockey at Central Mile Race Track in Edmonton, Canada. He is Jamaican Dane Nelson, plus the weekly stats on Caribbean success on the North American continent, or opening story from Jamaica. Where the Winston Finer Griffiths Classic was the main event at K-Manus Park, in tribute to the five-time champion jockey, a guard of honor for the retired 64-year-old Icon, who is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most classic wins at 44, among his car-combessed 1,664 wins. Winston Griffiths O.D. rode a record five triple crown winners, and is now a race horse trainer, Jamaica's netball World Cup bronze medal winners, also special guests at K-Manus Park Saturday. Nine starters for the nine-and-a-half furlong run, where the top contenders Princess Sharon, the three-horse, a good third in the St. Leisure at 7-to-2, number four coming off two straight wins, burlap at three-to-one, in the five-box money miser, the four-to-five favorite, following second-place finishes in three of the classics, the Guinness, the St. Leisure and the Derby, and the 7-horse, the Oaks runner, a power from above, the five-to-two second favorite. Kevin Burnside has the race called, picking them up, approaching the home turn, the front running outsider, essential quality, with a commanding and comfortable lead, while the fancied entries struggled to keep pace. Money miser will have to do more running, also coming on, that's rich and rich, power from above, and then comes life is life, and still left at the back California goal, but it is essential quality, really traveling nicely, about four lengths, five, six, maybe more in front of Princess Sharon racing in second, also coming on, that's power from above, money miser begins to get rolling, but might be too late, it is essential quality, in the Winston, Phanagraph, it's OD classic in front, essential quality, taking them pillar to post, essential quality is in front, and will win easily in the end, by about six lengths. For the second week in a row, Radish Roman rides the feature race winner, last weekend runaway Algo was favorite in the She's Amani to trophy, this time a massive upset aboard essential quality, the 25-year-old Roman on a roll, he has won on every card for the last five race days in a row. The three-year-old Phyllis' third win from eight starts this year, essential quality owned and trained by Oral Hayden at 30-to-one, impressively lands the Winston-Grivitts classic, Princess Sharon at 7-to-2, a distant second by nine lengths, two minutes, three seconds, the winning time for nine and a half furlongs. Turn it out at Tobago, celebrated its 61st anniversary of Independence last Thursday, and champion trainer, John O'Brien, marked it royally with his Philly Princess Aruna leading a 1-2-3 finish for him in the Independence Cup on turf at Santa Rosa Park. O'Brien's 2022 Dabu winner Soca Harmony and Crown Prince, who combined to sweep the triple crown series last year, both well-backed at 2-to-1, but the betters knew why they made Princess Aruna their stable mate, the even-money favorite. She was fifth here in the nine furlong run, as John Rupert, in the come box, tracks her rapid gain on the leaders. What a ride by apprentice Tristan Phillips, the race perfectly measured by the leading rider, Mitra Samlal's Princess Aruna fourth in the Dabu last year, gets her biggest career win and is undefeated in five starts now on turf. Princess Aruna at even-money wins the Independence Cup by a length and three-quarters over her stable mates Crown Prince and Soca Harmony for the sweep by O'Brien, winning his third straight Independence Cup after Apocalypse and Stroke of Luck, the winning time 152.82 for nine furlongs on the Santa Rosa turf. Let's head up north now to Canada, where the Barbadian Jockeys, Christopher Chin's husbands and Jason Jetley Hoyt, uncorked stakes wins on Monday afternoon at Fort Erie in Ontario. Aboard the one-to-five favorite Nicolau in the 35,600 push and boots Cup stakes, champion Jockey husbands was confident here in third, stalking the leaders into the home stretch. Three-quarters in one, eleven and two, and it's Wilbur Forrest looking to go gate to wire, Nicolau swings to the outside to make a bid, running up to half lit at the head of the lane, it is Wilbur Forrest, he's opened up three lengths, Nicolau trying to rally down the outside, he has his turn of foot unleashing now, it's Wilbur Forrest and Nicolau duking it out in the push and boots, Nicolau ranges up to Wilbur Forrest and takes control, it is Nicolau, clearly superior in the push and boots, Nicolau by two-and-a-half, Wilbur Forrest resilient second. Husbands are two-timer Cineboya Downes champion and perfectly on course for a third straight title at Fort Erie, TNT fans may also remember husbands as a 16-year-old winning the 2006 Trinidad Derby aboard Sarah's music. He was patient behind the front running Wilbur Forrest and says the five-year-old Gelding gave him a lot when he was asked. Undefeated at Fort Erie, three-and-oh at the track now, Nicolau wins the push and boot stakes by two-and-three-quarter lengths as the one-to-five favorite, clocking one-minute 44.31 for the eight-and-a-half furlong run on turf for trainer Kevin Buttigieg. Hoyt got his win in a photo finish to the horse people's luminary cup stakes aboard the seven-to-five favorite Sheba Town, who is fifth here on the rail and closing. Finding room on the inside past the eighth pole, Hoyt brilliantly roused the four-year-old Philly to snatch the win, citing an adjustment he made to go for the rail run and it worked perfectly. The seven-to-five favorite, Sheba Town by a nose over the 72-bed, Gimbala, the winning time for the six-and-a-half furlong horse people's luminary, won 1886 on a fort Erie afternoon that saw the 60-year-old Trinidad Emile Ramsami and Barbada and Kevin Nicoles also winning. We knew it would happen at some point and it has. Dane the warrior-cheap Nelson, a four-time champion jockey in Jamaica, now a champion rider in Canada at Central Mile, where he had two previous run-up finishes. On Friday's final day of the racing season, here is Nelson aboard his last win on the campaign aboard the favorite beautiful mess in the allowance optional-claiming second race. The three-year-old Philly winning by ten lengths, the 39-year-old Nelson closing out a dominant season at Central Mile and emerging champion jockey after taking second place finishes at the Edmonton racetrack in 2019 and 2022. Nelson would move south in Alberta later that weekend for two stakes wins at Lethbridge. With his 40-win season, Nelson finished four in front of Jose Ossensio for his first jockeys title in Canada, Barbadian Enrico Prescott, a nominee for Canada's Outstanding Apprentice Sovereign Award in 2022, placed fifth with 30 wins. Upfinishes as well for two other Barbadians, Desmond Brown and Deshaun Gaskin at ninth and tenth. Our usual week, a tally of wins for Caribbean men in the USA and Canada before we go, since our last show, I've counted six to two wins, among them five victories at Emerald Downs for the Barbadian jockey, Rocco Boyne, including a Saturday triple. Boyne also had three wins this week at Thistledown. The Barbadian trainer, Safi Joseph Jr., had three weekend wins at Goldstream Park. Malmohan, the Jamaican jockey, with four weekend wins at Canterbury Park. And there was an Assiniboya Downs star week for Antonia Whitehall, the Barbadian leading rider there. Five wins for him this week, including a four-timer on Wednesday. And the Jamaican, Lars Allen, he had four wins at Lethbridge, including a stakes tramp. We've been at the track covering top stories and exciting races in the sport of kings. Check us out again next week.