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Stories by Ainsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Published:Thursday | March 28, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SATURDAY’s KING’S Plate could be a handicap gift to last year’s 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner, MAMMA MIA, returning with a 10lb weight swing on MONEY MONSTER, the winner of last year’s race. MAMMA MIA and MONEY MONSTER are fresh out of a hot six-...

Published:Monday | March 25, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ANTHONY Nunes saddled three winners yesterday, including 9-1 shot ALLEGIANCE, who closed fast along the rail inside the last half-furlong of the Sir Howard Stakes to nail 4-5 favourite J SPIETH at the wire. Considered the first official 2000...

Published:Saturday | March 23, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

TAMPA Bay Downs’ Pablo Morales and New Yorker Reylu Gutierrez, multiple graded-stakes winning jockeys in North America, make their Jamaica debuts at Caymanas Park on Easter Monday, April 1. Morales and Gutierrez join Panamanian Josue Osorio, as...

Published:Friday | March 22, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

COURSE-SPECIALIST VOLATILITY will square off against RAMBLING ROSE, an equally potent rival at five furlongs straight, in Sunday’s overnight allowance, a quick dash restricted to for horses who are yet to win a race at the level. Arguably two of...

Published:Thursday | March 21, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ONCE BITTEN, twice shy should not be the approach to classy DESERT OF MALIBU in Saturday’s Saint Cecelia Cup after clocking fantastic times from five furlongs straight to a mile, which she won in 1:38.2 when landing the St Elizabeth Distaff last...

Published:Thursday | March 14, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RETURNING FOR Saturday’s Henry W. Jaghai Trophy at six furlongs, it is impossible to look past MAMMA MIA in an overnight allowance after her brave run with 121lb in the Allan E. ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial two Sundays ago. MAMMA MIA jetted CAPTAIN...

Published:Thursday | March 7, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ABILITY, LAST year’s Jamaica Derby winner, Gold Cup second runner-up and Mouttet Mile runner-up, all grade-one events – albeit the derby is age-restricted – has an alibi, the conditions book, to make his second appearance two classes lower, among...

Published:Thursday | February 29, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

THE NAÏVE bet to stake in Saturday’s SVREL Anniversary Trophy is to ignore the red flags and consider SENSATIONAL MOVE much improved, considering his easy victory two Saturdays ago against the same cast in the Reggae Month Trophy. However, if there...

Published:Tuesday | February 27, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RICHARD Stone, who defeated the United States’ Sheldon Spencer in the International Taekwondo Federation bout at last year’s ESPN-televised Night of Champions at the International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, heads a list of...

Published:Monday | February 26, 2024 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ATLANTIC CONVOY and FURTHER AND BEYOND swallowed MAMMA MIA approaching the furlong pole, a two-pronged attack, which not even the photo-finish camera could separate at the wire of yesterday’s seven-furlong Allan ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial. MAMMA MIA...

Published:Friday | February 23, 2024 | 12:22 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ATLANTIC CONVOY has a 14lb weight swing on CAPTAIN CALICO in Sunday’s Allan ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial, four pounds lighter, after giving up 10lb when beaten by five lengths last October. With the weight swing in his favour, ATLANTIC CONVOY could...

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ROUGH ENTRY returns to the scene of his Mouttet Mile victory – well, almost – going seven and a half furlongs in Saturday’s Chairman’s Trophy. To say the five-year-old American is the horse to beat would be the understatement of the year,...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DESERT OF MALIBU returning in tomorrow’s Reggae Month Trophy at five furlongs straight, picking up a paltry five pounds, is the proverbial slap in the face that the condition book presents when ‘races won’ are measured by quantity instead of...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GREEN GOLD RUSH took the widest route of all challengers, after leaving the half-mile marker next-to-last, to outfinish 6-1 chance GET A PEPSI and 88-1 outsider, United States-bred TAURUS BOY, in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday Trophy at six and a half...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PUNTERS should tread carefully in the holiday Ash Wednesday feature in which old rivals LABAN, DUKE and FREEDOM STREET face down-in-class MONEY MONSTER at six and a half furlongs, the trip at which pace often collapses. A challenging event for even...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DIVINE FORCE gets the ideal trip, a mile, in Saturday’s ‘Lindy’ Delapenha Memorial to mow down speedsters I REALISE and FURTHER AND BEYOND, who should cancel themselves on the lead trying to escape each other. A danger to all whenever controlling...

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA-BORN ECLIPSE Award-winning jockey, Shaun Bridgmohan, who has twice won six races on a card in North America, first at Aqueduct in 1998 and at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, 2007, has a great shot at scoring a hole-in-one, partnering Philip...

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RADDESH ROMAN catapulted to the top of the jockeys’ standings yesterday with a six-timer, eight winners at the weekend, following his two-timer on Saturday. Sweeping the James B Dawes Memorial at contrasting odds, SENSATIONAL MOVE at 4-5 and A GIFT...

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GARY Subratie’s SENSATIONAL MOVE should start favourite to win division one of Sunday’s James B. Dawes Memorial after chasing home NEO STAR at nine furlongs and 25 yards on New Year’s Day when making his overnight-allowance debut. SENSATIONAL MOVE...

Published:Thursday | January 25, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

IS THAT A FACT’s brave second-place effort to ATOMICA in the Ian Levy Cup not only franked the United States-bred colt’s Mouttet Mile effort but further exposed how he had managed to go on a four-win streak before being stopped in his tracks by...

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHOULD RHYTHM BUZZ reproduce his December 17 victory in the slop or his prior run against CAPTAIN CALICO, not to mention a strong second-place finish behind imported ATLANTIC CONVOY on November 4, Sunday’s Bonnie Blue Flag at seven and a half...

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

STARTING THE weekend $2.32 million behind leader Gary Subratie, whose out-of-class American, DESERT OF MALIBU, spotted the field a dozen lengths before mowing down MADELYN’S SUNSHINE in last Saturday’s St Catherine Cup, Jason DaCosta has eyes on a...

Published:Monday | January 15, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HOME-course heroes Oshane Haye and Zandre Roye, yesterday warmed up for the January 18-21 Latin America Amateur Championship at Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama by defending their Ocho Rios Charity Golf Tournament title, emerging gross winners on 59...

Published:Thursday | January 11, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RETURNING IN Saturday’s St Catherine Cup at six furlongs with five impressive fast times, from five furlongs straight to a mile, it will take an out-of-this-world performance to deny five-year-old DESERT OF MALIBU. United States-bred DESERT OF...

Published:Friday | January 5, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GOD OF LOVE was far from disgraced last time out behind EMPEROROFTHECATS in the Ahwhofah Trophy at six furlongs on December 10, putting him in good stead to finally break his five-furlong straight jinx in Saturday’s Security Department Trophy. GOD...

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