McCarthy has big day at Queen’s Cup
Irish-born jockey Jimmy McCarthy enjoyed a big day on Saturday, April 24, at the 15th Queen’s Cup Steeplechase at Brooklandwood Race Course in Mineral Springs, N.C. With Mattie Batchelor, McCarthy was one of two foreign jockeys riding the card, and he came away with two victories and a quality second in the $50,000 Queen’s Cup MPC Chase.
The veteran steeplechase jockey kicked off the afternoon with a 54-length score aboard Edition Farm’s Takmeoutodabalgame for trainer Janet Elliot in the $25,00 BAE Systems Sport of Kings Maiden Hurdle.
Two races later, he rode Carrington Racing Stable’s Here Comes Art to a second-place finish in the $30,000 Queen’s Cup, the afternoon’s stakes race. One race later, he won the $15,000 Dietz & Watson open timber race aboard Lucy Stable’s Westbound Road for trainer Richard Valentine. He also had a third with Don’t Fret in the Trugreen, a training flat race he had won last year with Primero Peru.
In all, the native of Skibbereen in County Cork had total earnings of $33,400 after riding in all six of the National Steeplechase Association-sanctioned races.
