OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Despite missing three days of the 15-day meet and riding only 62 horses, jockey Kendrick Carmouche won the Aqueduct spring riding title with 19 wins, one more than Dylan Davis. Davis, who won the winter meet title, won 18 races from 104 mounts at the spring stand. Trevor McCarthy and Manny Franco finished in a tie for third with 15 wins, while apprentice Jose Gomez was fifth with 13 wins. Franco, who won three stakes at the meet, led all riders in purse money won with $1,192,773, about $20,000 more than Davis. For Carmouche, it was his second riding title on the New York Racing Association circuit. He won the 2020 fall riding title. Between a three-day careless riding suspension and dark days, Carmouche went 10 days without riding a horse (April 10 through 20). He won six races over the final week, including four wins on Saturday, one via disqualification in a race that Davis had finished first. :: For the first time ever, our premium past performances are free! Get free Formulator now! “I’m proud of myself that off a 10-day sit-down I come back and started winning again and I ended up winning the meet the last couple of days,” Carmouche said. “Just grateful for all the trainers and everybody that put in the work and gave me the support and confidence to ride these horses.” Chad Brown won the trainer’s title with 13 wins from 39 starters and led all trainers in purse money won with $1,018,560. Todd Pletcher (8 for 30), Jeffrey Englehart (7 for 23), Rudy Rodriguez (6 for 34) and George Weaver (5 for 16) rounded out the top five. “I’m proud of my team, everyone contributed,” Brown said. “The [New York] horses had some winners out of that group, the Payson horses, and Consumer Spending was at Palm Meadows. So everyone contributed, the horses and co-workers and when that happens at a meet the result is you have a really proud boss and that’s how I feel right now.” Brown’s main client, Seth Klarman’s Klaravich Stables, finished as leading owner with 7 wins from 23 starts. Daryl Abramowitz went 4 for 5 and five outfits had three wins. Racing on this circuit moves to Belmont Park on Thursday.