August 21, 2007
Robbie King Jr. Wins Six at the Fort

FORT ERIE, August 21…Jockey Robbie King Jr. solidified his hold as king of the Fort Erie riders with a record-tying six-win performance Tuesday afternoon.

King became just the fourth jockey in the track’s 110-year history to ride a half dozen winners in the same day. The feat was last accomplished by Gary Stahlbaum in 1977. Hall of Famer Sandy Hawley did it four times in the 1970s. Al Coy set the record in 1958.

“We were on live stock all day and we had a bit of luck too,” King said after climaxing his run with a 6 ¾ length win aboard Frezacon ($6.20) in the eighth race. The four-year-old gelding trained by Myckie Neubauer equalled a 39-year-old track record by speeding 6 ½ furlongs in 1:15 4/5.

The 43 year-old native of Ottawa won the day’s first three races aboard While the Catsaway ($3.70), A Real Good Man ($8.00) and The Preetzah ($4.40). He also won the sixth on Champagne Prospect ($6.70) and the seventh aboard Utmost Respect ($7.80).

He just missed his seventh winner when Kerry Fair came up a head short of catching Cielavia at the wire in the ninth race. King also finished third in the fifth race and was out of the money in the fourth and the tenth.

The Fort’s defending champion jockey now has 61 wins for the season, 11 wins ahead of Chad Beckon.

Live racing resumes on Saturday, post time 1:05pm.

Daryl Wells
Media and Communications
1-800-295-3770 ext. 3204
e-mail: dwells@forterieracetrack.ca