DANE DAWKINS, champion jockey 2022, and title-chasing Tevin Foster each rode two-timers to share honours on yesterday’s 10-race card. Dawkins first rallied 7-2 chance EL RAPIDO to a dead-heat against leading rider Raddesh Roman astride 4-5...
LOYALTY IN sports is a much-debated and often vexing issue, especially for sought-after players, who rival teams and sponsors go all out to woo from humble beginnings, offering the glitz, glamour and dollar of stardom. From Dwight Yorke to Raheem...
GARY SUBRATIE booked two early bird tickets to the Mouttet Mile yesterday with supersonic-like win-and-you’re-in victories by United States-bred DESERT OF MALIBU and local-heroine ATOMICA in the Port Royal Sprint and Jamaica Cup, respectively....
DANE DAWKINS, on winter break from Assiniboia Downs in Canada, continues to hold his own among the pair of Raddesh Roman and Tevin Foster amid the duo’s battle for the jockeys’ crown he won in 2022. Dawkins reeled off a hat-trick of wins on the 11-...
A DISQUALIFICATION stole the spotlight for the second consecutive meet at Caymanas Park – only that there were no garbage bins and debris flung into the winners’ enclosure – after it was announced that title-chasing jockey Tevin Foster’s mount, SHE...
JAMAICA’s MCKAY Security combined martial arts have, so far, netted four of five possible gold medals after day one of the International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (AMA) World Championships in Vienna, Austria. ISKA...
SEAN MORRIS was true to form on Sunday at his old stomping ground of Negril Hills Golf Club, pairing with Romario Anglin to score 65, defending his Negril Charity Golf Tournament title won in 2022 playing alongside John Hayletts. Already invested...
DANE DAWKINS, 2022 champion jockey, on winter break from Assiniboia Downs in Canada, reminded the local colony of his skills by notching a three-timer yesterday, including a searing run with 7-1 outsider RAINSVILLE to nail 1-2 favourite RUN JULIE...
TEVIN FOSTER blanked rival Raddesh Roman with a four-timer on yesterday’s 10-race card, moving to 108 winners, four wins clear, after starting the day locked on 104 in their battle atop the jockeys’ standings. Foster enjoyed winners on either half...
FUNCAANDUN SHOT past fellow American WALL STREET TRADER three furlongs out in yesterday’s Philip Feanny Gold Cup, beating late-closing stablemate IS THAT A FACT by three-quarter length, securing a win-and-you-are-in event for December’s US$250,000...
RADDESH ROMAN stole the show with a hat trick yesterday in his battle with Tevin Foster, notching eight unanswered winners in two racemeets, tying his rival on 98 wins atop the jockeys’ standings. Similar to last Saturday when he rode four...
RADDESH ROMAN dominated yesterday’s nine-race card with a five-timer, sweeping the last four events, including the seven-furlong Thunderbird with MAJOR DANGER, reducing Tevin Foster’s lead atop the jockeys’ standings to two winners in one fell...
DISPLAYING HER 2023 form of five wins from as many starts – albeit disqualified on Mouttet Mile Day – five-year-old American mare DESERT OF MALIBU yesterday dismantled Jason DaCosta’s tag team of MADELYN’S SUNSHINE and IS THAT A FACT to complete a...
SENSATIONAL MOVE won yesterday’s overnight-allowance event as an out-of-class horse should, toying with United States-bred CHOCOMO and GENERATIONAL for the first three furlongs before sprinting clear to win the five-furlong straight sprint in a...
MONEY MISER and BERN NOTICE upstaged Americans, DIGITAL ONE and PROVOCATIVA, who disappointed as howling favourites in divisions one and two, respectively, of yesterday’s O...
JASON DACOSTA’S tag team yesterday pulled off a second relay job on ATOMICA, MAMMA MIA playing rabbit for six furlongs before United States-bred stablemate FUNCAANDUN pounced on the 2022 Jamaica Derby winner coming off the turn in the Distinctly...
ATLANTIC CONVOY and FEARLESS SOUL upstaged established sprinters with come-from-behind wins in yesterday’s divided six-furlong feature, the Arthur Jones Memorial for overnight-allowance runners. Set up by longshot no-hopers, POSING ALREADY and A...
MAHOGANY, 2022 GOLD Cup winner and last year’s runner-up, allowing winner SHE’S MY DESTINY 17lb, confirmed seven furlongs as his pet trip with an easy victory at the distance against open-allowance runners in yesterday’s Poorlittlerichgirl Trophy....
ROBERT HALLEDEEN stole yesterday’s Jamaica Oaks with a measured ride aboard Thornbird Stakes winner BANADURA, ignoring leader SIPPIN ON SUNSHINE for the first half of the 10-furlong event before injecting enough speed to run the field off its legs...
TRAINER JASON DaCosta need not reinvent the wheel in Tuesday’s Jamaica Derby after INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD’s workmanlike victory in last month’s 10-furlong St Leger. The derby being two furlongs longer, it would appear that Anthony Nunes’ St Leger...
FUNCAANDUN and stablemate MAMMA MIA ganged up on ATOMICA, using their 25lb advantages to tag-team the 2022 Jamaica Derby winner in yesterday’s She’s A Maneater Trophy at a mile, completing a 1-2 finish for champion trainer Jason DaCosta. MAMMA MIA...
JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists are aiming at a pre-COVID medal haul when they face the world’s best fighters at the July 4-6 International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open at the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. Returning...
LEADING RIDER Tevin Foster twice survived stewards’ enquiries yesterday, plus an objection from title-chasing rival, Raddesh Roman, to boot home a three-timer, extending his lead to 10 atop the jockeys’ standings at Caymanas Park. Foster, who...
UNITED STATES-BRED I AM FRED made all with champion jockey Reyan Lewis in yesterday’s SVL 23rd Anniversary Trophy feature race, confirming his return to the form he displayed when winning four consecutive top-class events between March and April...
RHYTHM BUZZ split the battling pair of FUNCAANDUN and ABILITY a furlong out to upstage the favourites, at odds of 5-2, with champion jockey Reyan Lewis in yesterday’s Mark My Word Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. Sired by Into Mischief’s 2016...
