During breakfast, Charmaine Bailey was in her office at Couples Tower Isle. Bumping into her on the way to dinner, approaching 8 p.m., she was busy fluffing cushions in colourful lounge chairs outside the piano bar, as though she was at home in her...
UNITED STATES-BRED MADELYN’S SUNSHINE’s returned for a second outing after a five-month break to wire overnight-allowance rivals at six furlongs, going pillar to post with leading rider Reyan Lewis in yesterday’s Kaz Hoshay Trophy at six furlongs....
MAHOGANY YESTERDAY consoled his connections for failing to defend his Gold Cup crown by halting United States-bred IS THAT A FACT’s win streak with a satisfying runaway victory at five furlongs. Caught by SHE’S MY DESTINY inside the final half-...
CANADIAN-IMPORTEE AMERICAN TAP easily outclassed overnight-allowance runners on debut in yesterday’s Nigel B Nunes Memorial, making every post a winning one at odds of 1-2, clocking 58.2 at five furlongs straight in announcing herself to open-...
BLUE VINYL made a mockery of rivals in yesterday’s Mark My Word Trophy, a gate-to-wire romp, clocking 1:54.2 for a ridiculously easy victory at nine furlongs and 25 yards. Effortlessly making it two wins and a flying short-head loss to impressive...
PERFECT BREW exploded midway the stretch run of yesterday’s I’msatisfied Trophy to blast past the United States-bred pair of I’VE GOT MAGIC and JORDON REIGN’S, clocking 1:12.1 on a fast track at six furlongs. Ante-post favourite IS THAT A FACT’s...
I REALISE shook off BRINKS three furlongs out, turned back MORIMOTO in the stretch run, leaving enough in the tank to survive 99-1 outsider RAINSVILLE’s late rail charge to land yesterday’s Bridge 99FM Cup by a neck. Reporting off a five-month lay-...
I’VE GOT MAGIC dismissed his overnight-allowance rivals by eight and a half lengths yesterday, a third run off an eight-month lay-up, suggesting he is rounding into shape for top-class grade one, the level at which he had placed a respectable 10th...
CHAMPION TRAINER Jason DaCosta and jockey Reyan Lewis made up for uncharacteristically quiet back-to-back days of racing last weekend by collectively winning a half of yesterday’s 10-race card. Lewis booted home his first career five-timer, combing...
THERE’S A saying in racing: Weight stops trains. Well, one of racing’s oldest adages was again proven yesterday, local mare SHE’S MY DESTINY slamming the brake on a seemingly runaway train, United States-bred RUNAWAY ALGO, derailing the American’s...
RADDESH ROMAN’S front-running tactics aboard Oral Hayden’s ESSENTIAL QUALITY from stall one, followed by a crippling half-mile move, left classic-placed stablemates PRINCESS SHARON and MONEY MISER gasping three furlongs out in a 30-1 upset of...
RUNAWAY ALGO yesterday cemented his status as the country’s top-rated horse. Carrying topweight 126lb at a mile, he demolished fellow United States-bred I AM FRED by eight lengths to clock 1:38.0 in the She’s A Maneater Trophy. Raddesh Roman...
LEADING RIDER Reyan Lewis, and champion trainer, Jason DaCosta, rebounded from THALITA’s Jamaica Derby disappointment by landing the two biggest purses on yesterday’s nine-race card with grade-one speedster SHE’S MY DESTINY and OUTBIDDDER, the $6.1...
GUINEAS-WINNER MAMMA MIA added the Jamaica Oaks to her résumé in impressive fashion yesterday, making every leap a winning one after bounding out the gate like a scared hare with Philip Parchment. Quickly claiming the rail, heading into the...
UNITED STATES-BRED RUNAWAY ALGO frolicked on an unmolested lead with 115lb before sprinting clear of fellow American I AM FRED in the stretch run to easily win yesterday’s Eros Trophy at seven furlongs for trainer Dale Murphy and owner Lanmark Farm...
YESTERDAY’S RESUMPTION of live racing at Caymanas Park was a case of as-you-were on the track with champion trainer Jason DaCosta, his main owner Carlton Watson, and stable rider Reyan Lewis, closing the six-race card in style. Hobbled by a...
LAST WEEK’s ST Leger-winning combination of champion owner Carlton Watson, last year’s top trainer, Jason DaCosta, and red-hot jockey, Reyan Lewis, struck again yesterday with United States-bred IS THAT A FACT, who made all at 4-1 to upstage 3-5...
PORTMORE TRIAL Stakes winner, THALITA, got the perfect pace to stalk, capitalising on a woeful run from howling favourite, MOJITO, to upset rivals in yesterday’s Jamaica St Leger, winning by six lengths at odds of 9-1. Rebounding from having to...
REYAN LEWIS maintained his hot streak yesterday, booting home four consecutive winners on the 10-race card, including a hat trick for Jason DaCosta, extending their respective dominance atop the jockeys’ and trainers’ standings at Caymanas Park....
RUNAWAY ALGO toyed with DUKE down the backstretch before pulling away with Raddesh Roman stroking the United States-bred runner’s mane from a furlong out in yesterday’s Thunderbird Trophy, clocking 1:24.3 at seven furlongs. Putting aside his recent...
PERFECT BREW swooped down on tearaway leader FURTHER AND BEYOND a furlong out before pulling off for a convincing victory, landing yesterday’s Alsafra Trophy in 1:38.0, completing a three-timer for champion jockey Dane Dawkins. FURTHER AND BEYOND,...
PHILIP PARCHMENT’s knack of handing champion owner Carlton Watson his first winners in major races continued yesterday when he rallied 6-1 chance MAMMA MIA to outbattle stablemate and 1-5 favourite, THALITA, also owned by Watson, to land the 1000...
EMPEROROFTHECATS, running with Richard Henry’s eight-pound claim and five-furlong straight track bias in his favour on the faster stands’ side, made every post a winning one with 112lb, relegating howling favourite RUNAWAY ALGO to fourth in...
RUNAWAY ALGO destroyed open-allowance runners in yesterday’s Seeking My Dream, clocking a blistering 1:30.4 for seven and a half furlongs, the exact time he posted at the distance last September. The writing was on the wall from the off with...
MINIATURE MAN easily took control of yesterday’s Yvonne Mattis Cup three and a half furlongs out, peeling off from D HEAD CORNERSTONE, DADDY JONES, BIG BIG DADDY and STOMP THE RHYTHM, who afterwards chased the out-of-class runner to the wire with...
