Trinidad Derby winner Soca Harmony joins Jagdeo Racing Stables
Soca Harmony is expected to light up horse racing in Guyana
Trinidad Derby Stakes winner Soca Harmony is among three horses imported to Guyana on Monday morning. She arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri after flying all the way from the horse-racing nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
Coming from the Santa Rosa Park in Arima, this five-year-old bay horse, daughter of J’Ouvert and Soca Rhapsody owned by Lester Moore, has now joined the Jagdeo Racing Stables on the Corentyne Coast in East Berbice, Region Six.
Soca Harmony has participated in 22 races in Trinidad from age two to age five; and she has won nine (9), finished second in seven (7), third in four (4), and fourth in two.
She has never been out of the money in her 22 starts, with earnings of $308,148.25.
The 2023 Stewards Cup winner was joined on the flight by four-year-old filly Theory of Colour, and dark/bay two-year-old filly St Vigeur/ Market Rally – who is a sister of the now four-year-old filly Red Ruby, who won two Derby contests last year for Jagdeo Racing Stables.
She has an unraced three-year-old chestnut sister in the country. She was bought last year by Fazal Habibulla as a two-year-old. All three horses are related to the sensational T&T-based Princess Aruna, who lost her unbeaten winning streak on the turf earlier this month. That was only her first turf defeat.
Soca Harmony, a black-type, multiple-graded winner formerly trained by champion trainer John O’Brien, is one of the most versatile horses to be imported from Trinidad to race in Guyana. She is the only Trinidad-bred horse to have won the 2,000-metre Trinidad Derby Stakes and Grade One 1,200-metre Stewards Cup.
Her dam Soca Rhapsody is a Jamaican-bred mare who also produced Soca Symphony — which was imported by Slingerz Racing Stables but did not get to show her true potential as she suffered an untimely death.
Theory of Colour, formerly trained by Glenn Mendez, is an improving filly. Both Theory of Colour and Soca Harmony could be seen in action on Sunday, February 25 at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice.
