Veteran trainer Wayne DaCosta succumbs to Covid-19 infection
Written by Leighton Levy. Posted in Horse Racing. | 24 March 2021 | 3386 Views
Tags: Horse Racing, Caymanas Park, Jamaica
Veteran Jamaican racehorse trainer Wayne DaCosta, who was hospitalized in February, has died.
DaCosta, who reports said, was infected by the Covid-19 virus was in intensive care battling complications related to Covid-19 infection.
A mainstay in Jamaica’s racing industry for more than four decades, DaCosta won the trainers' title 18 times, the most by any trainer in the country.
He won the Triple Crown twice times with War Zone in 1996 and She's A Maneater in 2017. He also won the Diamond Mile at Caymanas Park four times, twice with Seeking My Dream and twice with She’s A Maneater.
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