The opening meeting of the final quarter of the 2026 racing season offered ten races, including the featured Open Allowance Pinktober Trophy.
This was staged as race nine and contested by a field of six over the 6 ½ furlong course. Originally, four-time champion and reigning trainer Jason DaCosta declared Richard Halledeen, but who was later replaced by Tevin Foster, to partner 8-5 favourite Pepper Stepper (USA).
For the third of four wins on the card, Foster, this season’s leading reinsman, had Pepper Stepper (USA) sprinting out of the gates to establish the early advantage, which became 5 ½ lengths at the finish. The progressive three-year-old colt won unchallenged, and his immediate future looks rosy. DaCosta, for his two wins on the card, had saddled one-length winner Maverick (2-1), with Robert Halledeen to win race six, run at seven furlongs for three-year-old non-winners of two races.
Earlier, Foster had claimed victory in race three with 2-1 bet Slam Sharp, who won the Restricted Allowance III programmed for four-year-olds & upwards yet to win four races. This was second -generation horseman Michael Marlowe’s eleventh win from 137 starts this season.
Modern Monarch (10-1), a winner by half a length, was saddled by owner/breeder Carl Anderson to score the seven-furlong Restricted Allowance IV fifth event for horses four years and upwards with fewer than three wins.
Foster’s third was actualized in the nightcap over the five-furlong straight gallop. This was with the Lawrence Freemantle conditioned 8-5 favourite Ability getting home by a neck in the $350,000 claiming contest.
Race one over 3 ½ furlongs for short sprinters valued at $200,000 went to 12-1 bet Atomic Energy. Declared by owner/trainer Cashbert Khwalsingh, with apprentice Ramon Nepare the rider.
At the same price of 12-1, Life Is Light outstayed five rivals to win race two by six lengths over the extended nine-furlong circular course. This was a Restricted Allowance V for four-year-olds and upwards yet to win two races.
Saddled by Gary Griffiths, Life Is Light's victory was the first of three on the card for apprentice jockey Jahiem Anderson, boosted by a chance ride aboard Hit N Run (8-5) in race four for trainer Joseph Thomas to win a sixth race from 32 declarations this year. Hit N Run won by nearly four lengths for three successes from only five runs in 2026 to confirm Anderson’s second.
Anderson closed his personally memorable three-timer by two lengths aboard the Anthony Nunes Linguist (5-2) entry, in the Overnight Allowance seventh for three-year-olds and upwards run over six furlongs.
Race eight, a 6 ½-furlong three-year-old Maiden Condition Race, saw Chedwrick Humor(1-2), trained by Fitzgerald Richards, win by a head with the expert assistance of 2022 champion jockey Dane Dawkins.
