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Douglas Whyte finished joint fifth (31 points) in the World Super Jockeys Series which concluded Sunday at Hanshin Racecourse in Japan. Craig Williams crowned Champion (47 points) of the Series.
Whyte was out of luck on his first two rides
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in the four-legged series on Saturday but did better on Sunday by winning the final leg, the Golden Spur Trophy over 1800m on dirt, on a three-year-old colt named Dynamic Grow.
The perennial Hong Kong champion had earlier finished seventh in the third leg, the Golden Saddle Trophy.
Whyte, however, made the best of some outside rides on the Sunday card and he won the fifth race on Roll Of The Dice for trainer Katsuhiko Sumii, winner of the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Mile with Hat Trick in 2005 and who also trained the Melbourne Cup quinella a year late with Delta Blues and Pop Rock.
Whyte returns to action in Hong Kong at the Cathay Pacific International Jockeys' Championship (CXIJC) at Happy Valley on Wednesday 5 December when he needs just two more winners to equal the local record of 946 victories set by Tony Cruz.
Making the same journey from Japan for the CXIJC are last weekend's Japan Cup hero, Yasunari Iwata, who tied with Whyte in fifth place and Andrasch Starke, who finished 10th in the Series.
此外，韋達今日在另外部份場次亦客串上陣並且獲得贏位各一，於第五場泥地 1400米策騎 角居勝彥馬房的 Roll of
the Dice 勝出，第八場泥地 2000米策 Hiraboku Osho 跑獲第三名。角居勝彥曾於 2005年憑「三連冠」奪得國泰航空香港一哩錦標，又曾於 2006年憑「密州怨曲」、「搖滾樂」包辦墨爾本盃冠、亞軍。
德國代表薛達祺的總成績排在第十位。他與韋達、岩田康誠均會角逐 12月 5日星期三在跑馬地舉行的國泰航空國際騎師錦標賽。韋達只欠兩場頭馬便可與告東尼所創下的香港騎師 946次冠軍紀錄看齊。
