Kelso jockey Jake Dickson hits 20-win mark
Kelso apprentice jockey Jake Dickson notched up his 20th win south of the border at Redcar on Sunday.
That latest first-placed finish, dropping his claim from 7lb to 5lb, was on Financer for his employers, Tim Easterby’s Malton stables in North Yorkshire, at the Teesside track at odds of 15-8.
The 19-year-old guided his mount, a five-year-old bay gelding, across the finishing line half a length ahead of fellow Scot Danny Tudhope on 4-5 favourite Be Patient, trained by North Yorkshire’s Ed Bethell, in the Sky Bet Go-Racing-in-Yorkshire Summer Festival Handicap, securing its £7,328 top prize.
He was one of two Borders riders in a field of four contesting that one-mile-two-furlong race, the other being Hawick’s Jason Hart, bringing up the rear on Nepal for North Yorkshire’s Ivan Furtado.
Dickson’s Sunday success was his third in the space of four days, following on from wins at Pontefract in West Yorkshire last Friday and Thirsk in North Yorkshire the day before, and his fourth of the month to date.
The former was on 5-6 favourite Hansteen for John and Sean Quinn’s Malton yard in the one-mile-four-furlong Babs Woolford Memorial Apprentice Classified Stakes, finishing eight lengths clear of Joe Bradnam on Muhib for Lincolnshire’s Olly Williams, to land a payout of £3,402.
The latter was in the saddle of 4-5 favourite Hatamoto for Easterby in the eight-furlong By Chen Presidential Apprentice Handicap, edging out Hawick jockey Rhys Elliott on Leelawadee, trained by County Durham’s Michael Dods, by a short head to earn prize money of £4,711.
Dickson’s other July win was on Didaar at Nottingham on Saturday the 4th at 7-2 for Suffolk trainer Gihan Arnolda over a mile and two furlongs, earning £3,402.
He’s now targeting another 30 first-placed finishes to take his apprentice’s claim down from 5lb to 3lb.