Dubai: Jockey Connor Beasley was celebrating winning the feature race at Jebel Ali Racecourse for the second successive meeting, after booting home the Ahmad Bin Harmash-trained Ormindo in the Shadwell Farm Handicap.

Settled at the back of the 12-runner field for much of the seven-furlong trip, Beasley got to work on the seven-year-old son of Discreet Cat approaching the final 300 metres. Ormindo responded with a quick change of gears to overtake leader Mushaakis (Tadhg O’Shea) and held on for a comfortable length victory over Above Normal, the mount of Richard Mullen.

A fortnight ago Beasley delivered a similar effort aboard Brabham, also trained by Bin Harmasn, to land the afternoon’s feature event.

Bin Harmash was a former assistant to Mubarak Bin Shafya who trained the ex-Godolphin horse for two seasons in 2013-2014.

Beasley said that the fast pace in the race played to Ormindo’s liking.

“They went a good pace which suited my horse,” he said. “Once he got to the hill he galloped all the way to line.

“He’s so genuine. When I asked him the question he responded and just kept finding more.

“He’s consistent and I’m sure he’ll get a mile.”

Meanwhile, apprentice jockey Sean Davis partnered his first winner in the UAE wen steering the Satish Seemar-trained Invisible Strike to win the American University of Sharjah Handicap.

Davis, from Maynooth in County Kildare, Ireland, had previously finished runner-up on three occasions from 38 rides this season.

“It’s nice to get off the board,” said the teenager who is a graduate of RACE, Ireland Racing Academy and Centre of Education. “Maybe we can get a couple more before we go home.”

Commenting on Invincible Strike, who led from three furlongs to score by 2 ¼ lengths from Pictograph, Davis said: “He’s very straightforward, he has the tendency to go forward and make the running.

“You could always hear them coming and I just wanted to keep his mind on the job,” added the jockey in reference to his use of the whip during the closing stages of the 1600m contest.

Patrick Cosgrave ensured that he retains the lead in the UAE jockey’s championship, when riding a double for in-form handler Helal Al Alawi.

The first of these, an easy win at that, came aboard Rothenburg in the Zayed University handicap over 1800m and was followed up by Shillong’s narrow victory in the Derrinstown Stud Handicap.

Commenting on Rothenburg’s win on the Street Cry colt’s first outing at Jebel Ali, Cosgrave said: “I think he could be a good horse next year. He needs to be taken along slow.

“He travelled well, better than he did last time out at Meydan. He’s a big scopey horse and I was very impressed with his last furlong.”

Rothenburg did not get off to the best of starts and needed to be ridden strongly to get into the race, prompting Cosgrave to say: “On dirt races you can’t give away anything at the start. And he’s a horse that never gives himself an easy race. In my eyes, he’ll be a very nice horse next year.”