Don Kwesi takes shot at Distinctly Irish redemption

DON KWESI, the most improved local-bred in training, should make amends for his rather odd disqualification in last month’s Poorlittlerichgirl by landing Saturday’s Distinctly Irish Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards.

Sent off at even-money in hunt of a fourth win this season in the Poorlittlerichgirl after slugging his way through the lower ranks last year, DON KWESI caught Mark My Word Trophy winner, RUN JULIE RUN, the 2023 Jamaica Derby runner-up, with a knockout punch, beating the five-year-old mare into third but was disqualified after Jaheim Anderson weighed in lighter than he had gone out for the seven-and-a-half furlong event.

Had he kept the Poorlittlerichgirl, DON KWESI would have graduated to grade one, celebrating his second open-allowance win in three months, a remarkable feat for Barrington Bernard’s runner, who was never a contender in last year’s three-year-old classics.