Published:Saturday | November 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
WESTERN WARRIOR made every post a winning one in yesterday's 1820-metre United Racehorse Trainers' Association trophy feature event, beating DONTAE by a length, finishing ahead of his rival for the third consecutive race.Lightweight jockey Wesley...
Published:Friday | November 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
WESTERN WARRIOR's searing speed around the bends clearly separates him from his five rivals, all of whom will stay the distance but don't have the pace to beat him at 1820 metres in this afternoon's United Racehorse Trainers Association of Jamaica (...
Published:Wednesday | November 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
MR AMBASSADOR easily won yesterday's 1300-metre Cecil C. Charlton Memorial feature race, finishing almost four lengths ahead of 7-1 outsider DINNER BY SEVEN. Partnered by three-kilo claiming apprentice, Oneil Scott, MR AMBASSADOR went off as the...
Published:Tuesday | November 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
STORMING, an 82-1 upset winner on October 25, faces an old rival, MR AMBASSADOR, in this afternoon's Cecil C. Charlton Memorial at 1300 metres.MR AMBASSADOR beat STORMING, by almost four lengths, at 1200 metres on July 1. However, she was slowly...
Published:Saturday | November 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
SHE'S A MANEATER yesterday repelled a determined challenge from BIGDADDDYKOOL in the stretch run, handing Wayne DaCosta victory in the $3.5 million Burger King Superstakes - the missing jewel in a stellar career spanning 16 trainers' titles at...
Published:Friday | November 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
WITH inclement weather forecast to affect the entire island today, riding tactics for this afternoon's $3.5m Burger King Superstakes will be crucial. More important, however, is which of the three fancied horses - SHE'S A MANEATER, BIGDADDYKOOL, and...
Published:Monday | November 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
DEFENDING champions Calabar High School are basking in their fifth hold on the McKay Security Jamaica Taekwondo Association High School League, which they won 4-1 over St George's College.Calabar vice-principal Calvin Rowe presented team captain...
Published:Saturday | November 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
LIGHTNING LILY scored a determined 13-1 upset over Anthony Nunes' pair, BLUE TRADITION and DONTAE, winning yesterday's 1500-metre restricted stakes by a widening three and a quarter lengths.Conditioned by former champion trainer Philip Feanny,...
Published:Thursday | November 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
MARTIAL ARTIST Sheckema Cunningham departed the island yesterday, bound for the World Association of Kickboxing Association World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with eyes set on gold medals in continuous and points sparring.Cunningham, 32, won...
Published:Tuesday | October 31, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
DOWN in class and going the minimum trip, not to mention a favoured rail draw at post-position one, and jockey Shane Ellis, who has the patience of Job, CRUCIAL APPEAL has most appeal in this afternoon's eighth race at 1000 metres.CRUCIAL APPEAL...
Published:Saturday | October 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
BILINGUAL yesterday spoke one language - class - a near three-length win, after being eased close home by hot Panamanian jockey Dick Cardenas in the one-mile Errol 'Big Sub' Subratie Memorial overnight allowance feature race.The 1000 Guineas and...
Published:Wednesday | October 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
SIR BUDGET used superior speed, guided by a confident ride from hot claiming apprentice, Anthony Thomas, to easily win yesterday's open allowance sprint at Caymanas Park by just over a length.Returning to open allowance for the five-furlong round...
Published:Tuesday | October 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
The two hottest jocks at Caymanas Park, Panamanian Dick Cardenas and two-kilo claiming apprentice Anthony Thomas, are astride the favourites for this afternoon's open allowance at five furlongs round - DWAYNE STAR and SIR BUDGET, respectively....
Published:Sunday | October 22, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
Olympian Kenneth Edwards recently signalled his intentions for selection to Jamaica's combined martial arts team by dominating the American Taekwondo Association Delaware 2017 Regional Tournament in Wilmington, Delaware.Canada-based Edwards not only...
Published:Saturday | October 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
PANAMANIAN jockey Dick Cardenas booted home three winners in yesterday's, 10-race card, including SIEMPRE BUENO, in the 1200-metre Ahwhofah Trophy, maintaining his terrific strike rate since returning to Caymanas Park mid-September.The 2011 champion...
Published:Friday | October 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
A CLASSIC campaigner two years ago before going off on a lay-up from which he returned in May, five-year-old SIEMPRE BUENO hunts his first overnight allowance win against nine rivals in this afternoon's 1200-metre Ahwhofah Sprint. The chestnut horse...
Published:Thursday | October 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
RACEHORSE grooms at Caymanas Park are agitating for a wage increase, restive after not having had a pay movement in three years on a disputed weekly income of $3,250 per horse, a seven-day-per-week job, grooms' president Fabian White told Racing...
Published:Monday | October 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
UNITED STATES-bred CHOO CHOO BLUE yesterday powered away from HOUDINI'S MAGIC and a winded CHACE THE GREAT, a half-furlong out, to score a convincing win in the $1.75 million Gold Cup.The four-year-old filly sat third in the cat bird seat down the...
Published:Sunday | October 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
CHACE THE GREAT's climb to Grade One could not have come at a better time for the four-year-old gelding, coinciding with today's feature, the 1400-metre Gold Cup.Traditionally one of the epic races on the local calendar, attracting the best of Grade...
Published:Saturday | October 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
PATRIARCH yesterday thwarted a strong stretch challenge from ANOTHER VIGOROUS to land the 1200-metre Cash Pot 'Only One For Me' Trophy, drawing first blood in the Supreme Ventures Limited Two-Year-Old Series.The speedy bay colt shot to the front...
Published:Friday | October 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
FLASHY two-year-olds PATRIARCH and ANOTHER VIGOROUS face off this afternoon in the 1200-metre Cash Pot Only One for Me Trophy race, the first leg of the $12m Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL) Two-Year-Old Series, a trilogy of races which ends with the...
Published:Saturday | October 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
SHE'S A MANEATER yesterday made minced meat of ANOTHER BULLET, pouncing on the five-year-old colt at the top of the lane, after running four wide into the straight, and wasted no time in pulling away to land the 1500-metre Fontainbleu Trophy by...
Published:Friday | October 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
TRIPLE CROWN winner SHE'S A MANEATER will this afternoon prove whether she's a three-year-old bully or the real deal when she faces 10 open allowance horses, including five-year-old, ANOTHER BULLET, who she beat by four lengths at a mile in June...
Published:Friday | October 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
LUIS Fonsi's 'Despacito', English translation, 'Slowly', may be the summer's hottest song but the Latin American visitor arrivals to Sandals Jamaica, courtesy of Copa Airlines, have been nothing but slow. In fact, according to Bruno Chaquio, the...
Published:Saturday | September 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters
BILINGUAL yesterday outclassed WESTERN WARRIOR in the stretch run to score an easy win at a mile, clocking 1:39.0 on her second race back from a near five-month lay-up.Beaten by speedy LOOSE CANNON at five and a half furlongs two weeks ago, on her...
