NIPSTER ran through along the rail, approaching the final furlong, going past 46-1 outsider, TREVOR’S CHOICE, to win yesterday’s Saint Cecelia Cup by three lengths, beating 4-5 favourite, SIR ALTON, into fourth place. SIR ALTON, who entered the...
LAST year’s Jamaica Derby winner, KING ARTHUR , toyed with JAMAI RAJA for the first half-mile, before taking charge of yesterday’s World Vet Day Trophy race, completing a mile in 1:39.3. Considering he set his own pace, KING ARTHUR won comfortably...
TOONA CILIATA welcomed Horse of the Year NIPSTER to grade one with an avenging victory in yesterday’s Chairman’s Trophy, virtually making all the running, under constant hounding, to stave off late-charging SENTIENT by a neck. Breaking sharply from...
ACTION ANN recovered from interference down the backstretch to split rivals a furlong out and outfinish SECRET IDENTITY, landing yesterday’s Hot Line Stakes by a well-measured neck, a telling performance off a 10-week lay-up ahead of next month’s...
DUKE, running in the colours of Trevor James’ Success Farms, closed from off the pace to nab 7-5 favourite PATRIARCH, stealing home in the SVREL 4th Anniversary Trophy feature event at five and a half furlongs. Acquired by private treaty from...
FORMER sprint champion, CHACE THE GREAT, might have lost his early speed but closes strongly in his races, which will serve him well from his stands’ side draw in this afternoon’s five-furlong straight overnight-allowance sprint, the Sydney Watson...
CHAMPION apprentice Oshane Nugent produced a textbook stalking ride, piloting 3-2 chance FATHER PATRICK to a second straight win in landing yesterday’s six-furlong St Catherine Cup. Reporting off a strong victory at seven furlongs among overnight...
PUNTERS were left in the dark yesterday and will start today’s 11-race card no better off, as the jockeys’ championship battle between Dane Nelson and Anthony Thomas has seemingly been thrown into a stalemate. Locked on 84 winners apiece entering...
DANE Nelson yesterday moved within a hair’s breadth of Anthony Thomas, booting home a four-timer, reducing his rival’s lead to one atop the jockeys’ standings, with three meets to close the season. Thomas had no answer to Nelson’s onslaught, which...
MAHOGANY skirted Eros’ six-and-a-half furlong track record yesterday, clocking 1:16.1, to get within three-fifths of a second of the 27-year mark set by the country’s greatest sprinter ever. Returning off a six-week break and reverting to middle-...
WAYNE DaCosta’s colt, TOMOHAWK, despite his lack of pace, could be a real threat to the filly, ANOTHER AFFAIR, should the pace collapse in this afternoon’s nine-furlong and 25-yard Restricted Stakes. Running at 111lb, TOMOHAWK, who won at the...
SIR ALTON’s disqualification in yesterday’s open allowance/graded stakes cost title-chasing Wayne DaCosta approximately $700,000 and a chance to grab the trainers’ championship lead from title-holder Anthony Nunes. In a dramatic finish to the $2...
TITLE-chasing Dane Nelson, booted home three winners yesterday, slashing Anthony Thomas’ lead atop the jockeys’ standings to four, while helping champion trainer Anthony Nunes extend his stakes advantage over Wayne DaCosta. Nelson won aboard two...
ROY ROGERS revelled in the slop, defying near topweight to repel JAMAI RAJA before running away with yesterday’s Kenneth Mattis Memorial at nine furlongs and 25 yards. Partnered by claiming apprentice, Raddesh Roman, ROY ROGERS battled JAMAI RAJA...
KING ARTHUR started the day as a non-winner-of-three races and went home as the 18-1 Jamaica Derby winner, scoring a thrilling half-length win over St Leger winner, NIPSTER, and the game filly, ANOTHER AFFAIR. WOW WOW, the 9-5 favourite, and St...
DEEP BLUE SEA’s party, three wins in his last four starts, should be crashed by seasoned non-winner-of-four campaigner, FORMAL FASHION, in today's seventh race at five and a half furlongs. Speedy DEEP BLUE SEA has been all the rage since her...
LEADING rider, Anthony Thomas, and trainer Wayne DaCosta are expected to continue their rich vein of form this afternoon with SIR ALTON set to easily brush aside overnight allowance runners in the closing event. The hot duo combined yesterday for...
ALEXA’S LODGE benefitted from six-time champion jockey Omar Walker’s peach of a ride and numerous traffic problems suffered by third-past-the-post, AWESOME TREASURE, to land yesterday’s Miracle Cure Sprint by a thrilling short head. Speedy PRINCESS...
THIS afternoon’s six-furlong Ronron trophy is a neutral battleground for SIR ALTON and EROY to renew rivalry. The foreigners met as two-year-olds last December at five furlongs straight, EROY a disqualified winner on his November 8 debut, at six...
TOP three-year-olds NIPSTER, GREEN GOLD RUSH and DOUBLE CROWN – face off this afternoon at nine furlongs and 25 yards in the Royal Dad Trophy after finishing within a half-length of each other behind EROY at a mile on August 15. A warm pace is...
ABOVE AND BEYOND yesterday wore down a game ANOTHER AFFAIR to land the Jamaica Oaks, crowning a bumper day for trainer Anthony Nunes and leading rider, Dane Nelson. Always a two-horse affair between 1000 Guineas winner, ABOVE AND BEYOND, and runner...
PATRIARCH used his blinding speed to coast unmolested into the lane, before quickening away, and stayed on strongly for a three-quarter length win ahead of CHACE THE GREAT in yesterday’s open allowance sprint at Caymanas Park. Friday’s showers had...
THE SKIES opened yesterday and lightning struck the same horse, JON MARSHALL, for the second time in 17 months at Caymanas Park after its rider, apprentice Anthony Allen, was found with what sources said appeared to be an electrical device inside...
WITH little to choose between WOW WOW and MAHOGANY, sharing 14 consecutive victories, reinsmanship could make the difference in this afternoon’s 2000 Guineas at a mile. Robert Halledeen is a forceful rider and will try stealing a march with WOW WOW...
CHAMPION trainer Anthony Nunes yesterday saddled his second two-timer in as many meets at Caymanas Park, watching super-fit UNIVERSAL BOSS chase down rivals at five furlongs straight, and GRAYDON staging a mighty last half-furlong rally to...
