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Brazilian jockey Dayversom Barros,the latest addition to Macau's riding ranks, got off to a great start by kicking home a double on Friday night's sand program at Taipa.
Barros was stepping out for only his second race day at the Taipa track.
He made a flying start in race one the Class 4 over 1510 metres with a win on Grateful Favors for the combined stable of Tommy Tse and Louis Ho.
In a daring move Barros set Grateful Favors alight from the six hundred to pinch a big break approaching the home turn; both Snowball (Luis Corrales) and Destney (Oscar Chavez) chased hard in the run home but the bird had flown with Grateful Favors holding on to win his sixth race in the enclave.
Barros again teamed up with the Tse and Ho yard to score a massive win on Simply Impeccable who overcame a wide run in transit to destroy his opponents with a six and a half length victory in the Class 2 over 1350 metres.
Simply Impeccable, a son of Street Cry, has done a fine job since arriving in Macau with Fridays night's victory win number three comprising two on the sand and a win at his Macau debut on a soft turf track.
Prior to being exported to Macau Simply Impeccable had won a maiden at Matamata in New Zealand and placed four times from 14 starts when trained by Danica Guy.
Barros is a much travelled rider having ridden in 10 different countries including Brazil, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Dubai and the UK.
The 30 year old, on a four months contract with the Macau Jockey Club, rides comfortably at 119 pounds will be in great demand with trainers after Friday night's effort.
Problem horse Tavezbac scored his second win in the enclave with a gritty effort in taking out the Class 2 & 3 over 1510 metres under French rider J B Hamel.
Prepared by Stanley Chin, Tavezbac won a maiden race over 1400 metres at Ruakaka in June last year from only two runs in New Zealand, when trained by Chris Gibbs.
The son of Tavistock arrived in Macau in December but it has taken Stanley Chin seven months to get the gelding to the racetrack.
Tavezbac has been a real handful to get onto the barriers and even threw his rider Eric Cheung and had to be withdrawn at his first attempt to race to race in Macau.
Whilst still a problem horse to load into the gates Tavezbac has really turned the corner form wise having won two from his past three runs, on both occasions with J B Hamel in the saddle.
In Friday's win the gelding was part of the lead in a race run at a good tempo and found plenty under pressure when challenged by the race favorite the Japanese import Ares Spear (Luis Corrales).
Tavezbac was drawing away on the line to score by one and three quarters of a length from Ares Spear, with Eastern Paradise a neck away in third.