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Published:Sunday | November 6, 2022 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

GOD OF LOVE trounced overnight-allowance runners for the second time in six months, clocking 59.4 to beat BATON ROUGE at five furlongs round yesterday, again proving himself a cut above the level unless facing an out-of-class open allowance or...

Published:Sunday | October 30, 2022 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MAMMA MIA made all the running with Robert Halledeen to land yesterday’s six-furlong Cash Pot ‘Only One for Me’ trophy for two-year-olds at odds of 5-1, repeating her win over MOJITO to stay unbeaten in two starts. The Soul Warrior-Princess Geeta...

Published:Sunday | October 23, 2022 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MAHOGANY WON an eventful Gold Cup by three lengths yesterday, getting first run on leader SHE’S MY DESTINY coming off the home turn to land his 13th race from 21 starts at odds of 5-1. Billed as a marker event for the US$125,000 December 3 Mouttet...

Published:Sunday | October 16, 2022 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ALEXA’S SECRET closed from seventh position at the top of the straight to chase down RAMBLING ROSE, winning yesterday’s fillies-only Titania Trophy by a short head from late-closing BABYLIKE. Sent off the 7-5 favourite to frank the form of return...

Published:Sunday | October 9, 2022 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CALCULUS BENEFITED from an expected speed attack on RUNAWAY ALGO to collar the quick United States-bred colt a half-furlong out in yesterday’s Mark My Word Trophy, winning his third route race in a month. Last year’s Jamaica Derby winner, CALCULUS...

Published:Sunday | October 2, 2022 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S RICH sporting history has made the island a selling point for travel agents in the Americas, 80 of whom tee off in the eighth Annual Latin American Travel Advisors Golf Tournament at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary,...

Published:Sunday | October 2, 2022 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA DERBY winner ATOMICA made a smashing debut among older horses, dismissing SHE’S MY DESTINY to clock a stakes record, 1:10.4, in yesterday’s I’msatisfied Trophy. One of four winners on the 10-race card for the jockey-trainer combination of...

Published:Sunday | September 25, 2022 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LAST YEAR’S Jamaica Derby winner, CALCULUS, outbattled a game I AM FRED to win Saturday’s Menudo Trophy at 10 furlongs by a length and three-quarter, confirming his status as the country’s top-rated distance runner. Stalking the pace from third,...

Published:Sunday | August 14, 2022 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JORDON REIGN’S outmuscled CURLIN’S AFFAIR and his own stablemate, SHE’S A WONDER, to seal a hat-trick of wins, notching a two-and-a-quarter length victory in yesterday’s Reggae Trophy at five furlongs straight. United States-bred JORDON REIGN’S...

Published:Sunday | August 7, 2022 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

A WELL-TUNED ATOMICA yesterday turned the tables on colts and geldings in the Jamaica Derby, using sheer pace to run her St Leger conqueror, BLUE VINYL, off his legs for the entire 12 furlongs. Reporting for the derby with a scintillating seven-...

Published:Sunday | July 17, 2022 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

IAN PARSARD’S United States-bred JORDON REIGN’S and his imported-in-utero stablemate, BIG JULE, scored impressive victories in yesterday’s co-features on Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame Day. Sparingly raced JORDON REIGN’S completed back-to-back...

Published:Sunday | June 12, 2022 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MONEY MONSTER reported in unbeatable fashion yesterday, making every post a winning one at a mile to upstage four-year-olds MINIATURE MAN and AMY THE BUTCHER in the Alsafra Trophy, a non-restricted overnight allowance event. A long-time but hard-to...

Published:Sunday | May 15, 2022 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

KING ARTHUR, the 2020 Jamaica Derby winner, produced a storming rail finish with Omar Walker to run away from the battling trio of FATHER PATRICK, DUKE and LURE OF LUCY, collaring the sprinters a furlong out in yesterday’s six-furlong Lady Geeta...

Published:Sunday | May 8, 2022 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

GARY SUBRATIE’S ATOMICA annihilated the opposition in yesterday’s Portmore Guineas prep, registering a twelve-and-a-quarter length victory, rendering the fillies’ mile classic a mere formality come June 4. Now unbeaten in four starts, the Nuclear...

Published:Sunday | April 24, 2022 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

PHILIP FEANNY’S imported pair of EXCESSIVE FORCE and I’VE GOT MAGIC revelled in conditions that handed them featherweights in yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy, completing the stable exacta by running topweight FURTHER AND BEYOND off his legs at a mile on...

Published:Sunday | April 17, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LEADER JASON DaCosta opened the Easter Carnival yesterday with a two-timer, including 12-year-old HOVER CRAFT, who outstayed Anthony Nunes’ SUPREME SOUL at nine furlongs and 25 yards, thwarting his rival’s bid to make up ground in the trainers’...

Published:Sunday | April 3, 2022 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ATOMICA RECOVERED from a bumpy start to outclass Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes winner, GOLDEN WATTLE, by seven widening lengths in yesterday’s Thornbird Stakes, as if asking, “Who’s next?”, in the 1000 Guineas prep. Sent to post as an unbeaten 3-5...

Published:Sunday | February 20, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred EXCESSIVE FORCE outran hot 3-5 favourite, BIG JULE, at nine and a half furlongs in yesterday’s Facilities Department Trophy, pointing three furlongs out and staying on strongly in the stretch run. BIG JULE’s backers were left...

Published:Sunday | February 13, 2022 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

GO DEH GIRL matched SHE’S MY DESTINY, stride for stride, before quickening away from the local-bred inside the final furlong of yesterday’s Security Department Trophy race, leaving the 2-5 favourite floundering, finishing fourth in the five-furlong...

Published:Sunday | February 6, 2022 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

EAGLE ONE attacked topweight FATHER PATRICK coming off the home turn and outstayed his old rival up the straight to easily win yesterday’s Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six and a half furlongs. Running in receipt of 15lbs from FATHER PATRICK, EAGLE...

Published:Sunday | November 28, 2021 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

BRINKS OVERHAULED speedy filly PRNCSSHOOTINGSTAR a furlong and a half out in yesterday’s Pick 3 Super Challenge to remain unbeaten in two starts, landing the seven-furlong event for two-year-olds by three and a quarter lengths. An impressive seven-...

Published:Sunday | September 12, 2021 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ANOTHER Nunes-DaCosta showdown looms in Wednesday’s Kenneth Mattis Memorial following SANTORINI’s upset of BILLY WHIZZ in last Saturday’s Winston ‘Fanna’ Griffths Classic. Nunes, hell-bent on a second defence of the crown he spent almost a decade...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2021 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

GARY Subratie’s PRETTY CASH lasted home by a head from Anthony Nunes’ fast- finishing KING’S MAGICIAN in yesterday’s ninth event, extending his stakes lead in the trainers’ championship, which hung by a $2,025 thread at the start of the afternoon....

Published:Friday | April 9, 2021 | 12:21 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DANE Nelson had to dig deep astride 1-5 favourite, FURTHER AND BEYOND, for a short-head victory over 6-1 chance, BILLY WHIZZ, in yesterday’s seven-furlong Prince Consort Stakes. Forced to dictate the backstretch pace in a race void of speed,...

Published:Friday | March 26, 2021 | 12:25 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CAPTUREMYSHIP is nicely in at the weight, 117lb, getting seven pounds from DUKE but giving up possibly two to in-form foreigner SOLID APPROACH, who is hunting a fourth straight win at five furlongs straight on Tuesday. The seven-year-old course...

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