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Published:Thursday | March 3, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DEJAE’S BOY stepped up in class from a third-place finish, as a $1 million claimer, to notch a stinging 19-1 upset in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday Trophy for overnight-allowance runners, taking up the running a half-mile out from 1-2 favourite SHE’S...

Published:Thursday | March 3, 2022 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ALL THINGS being equal, Saturday’s SVREL Fifth Anniversary Trophy appears the best race assembled on paper so far this season. Stablemates PATRIARCH and GOD OF LOVE taking on old rival FATHER PATRICK, sneaky LABAN benefiting from an eye-catching...

Published:Tuesday | March 1, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHE’S MY DESTINY’s hat-trick bid hit a brick wall at five furlongs straight on February 12 – GO DEH GIRL’s splits of 22.2, 33.3 and 45.2 - not the 34.3, 46.3 and 58.3 she had used to cripple rivals in back-to-back middle-distance races, appearing...

Published:Thursday | February 24, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CALCULUS CARRIED topweight and outfinished ONEOFAKIND, under a cheeky ride from Shane Ellis, in the Alexander Hamilton at a mile last month. A two-pound swing for Saturday’s rematch in the Miracle Man, at nine and a half furlongs, seemingly gives...

Published:Monday | February 21, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GENERATIONAL, picked up for $550,000 by Rowan Mathie on December 27 from Anthony Nunes’ annual fire sale, in defence of his trainers’ title, yesterday won four levels higher, outfinishing RAS EMANUEL at five and a half furlongs at odds of 8-1....

Published:Friday | February 18, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ALEXA’S LODGE returns off tricky lay-up, almost three months, facing a dangerous bunch, but could pull off the coup in Sunday’s Millard Ziadie Memorial at five and a half furlongs. A smooth run-on sprinter, ALEXA’S LODGE, now a five-year-old mare,...

Published:Thursday | February 17, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BIG JULE’s performance last time out, 1:37.4, the fastest mile run all year, lowering KING ARTHUR and ONEOFAKIND’s joint mark of 1:38.0, was no kid’s play after carrying splits of 47.2, 59.4, 1:11.4 and 1:24.0. Back from a two-month break, looking...

Published:Monday | February 14, 2022 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PATRIARCH used blazing speed, splits of 22.4, for the opening quarter, and 45.0, for the first half-mile, to obliterate rivals in yesterday’s five-furlong straight Customer Service Department Trophy race, easily winning his second open-allowance...

Published:Friday | February 11, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PATRIARCH and GOD OF LOVE should have things their way in Sunday’s Customer Service Department Trophy, an open allowance at five furlongs straight in which the stablemates will be hard to separate after their exacta performance in the St Catherine...

Published:Thursday | February 10, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHE’S MY DESTINY, who has clocked She’s A Maneater-like times in two victories since returning off a five-month lay-up on Boxing Day, continues to chew up the exercise track and has only the clock to beat with 112lb in Saturday’s Security...

Published:Monday | February 7, 2022 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEGALITY ran the favourites off their legs, bringing down the curtains on yesterday’s nine-race card at odds of 7-1, disputing the lead with CRAFTY AND READY before taking charge of the seven-furlong Allan E. ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial. A seasoned...

Published:Friday | February 4, 2022 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CURLIN’S AFFAIR could very well close out a four-timer in Sunday’s Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial at seven furlongs after his impressive victory against United States-bred CLASSICAL ORB, and last year’s classic-placed SANTORINI, at nine furlongs...

Published:Thursday | February 3, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

FATHER PATRICK has a great chance of closing out a hat-trick of wins but has to be perfectly ridden to defy topweight, going a furlong longer, in Saturday’s Eileen Cliggott Memorial. The six-year-old gelding already has the right jock, Oshane...

Published:Monday | January 31, 2022 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SECRET IDENTITY outsped the United States-bred pair, GO DEH GIRL and ONE DON, going all the way in yesterday’s George HoSang Trophy for overnight-allowance runners, notching back-to-back wins at five and a half furlongs. Breaking sharply with...

Published:Friday | January 28, 2022 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LAST year’s Guineas-placed filly, SECRET IDENTITY, should again use her pace to run rivals into the ground in Sunday’s George HoSang Trophy at five and a half furlongs. Since reverting to sprints at the back end of last season, SECRET IDENTITY has...

Published:Friday | January 28, 2022 | 12:05 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ACE MILER, ONEOFAKIND, has a crucial seven-pound advantage on last season’s three-year-old star, CALCULUS, who makes his four-year-old debut in Saturday’s Alexander Hamilton Trophy being run from his rival’s backyard – the mile chute. As St Leger...

Published:Wednesday | January 26, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

TRAINERS AT Caymanas Park yesterday morning aborted their threat of withholding nominations for this weekend’s Saturday-Sunday meet, accepting promoting company Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited’s (SVREL) counter-offer of a “one-...

Published:Monday | January 24, 2022 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENIOR Superintendent Christopher Phillips, head of the St Catherine South Police Division, said law enforcers are on the hunt for two other suspects for the October 30, 2021, shooting death of Flow technician Keran McCollin after his refusal to...

Published:Thursday | January 20, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HAVING SPENT his get-out-of-jail card between open allowance and graded stakes, placing third and fourth to out-of-class KING ARTHUR in consecutive races, before finishing fifth behind HOVER CRAFT outstaying EROY at nine furlongs and 25 yards,...

Published:Tuesday | January 18, 2022 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NATIONAL player Sean Morris and Delroy Johnson emerged gross-score winners among a field of 98 players at Sunday’s Couples Resorts Ocho Rios Charity Golf Tournament, staged at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary. Mark Newnham and Jodie...

Published:Monday | January 17, 2022 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ROBERT Halledeen notched his sixth winner in three race meets at Caymanas Park yesterday, including an overnight-allowance sprint with overwhelming favourite ONE DON for trainer Gary Subratie, joining Dane Dawkins on seven atop the standings....

Published:Saturday | January 15, 2022 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GARY Subratie, who started last Saturday’s 10-race card with a whopping hat-trick, including meet-opening 21-1 outsider, T BRADY, should land tomorrow’s restricted overnight allowance with United States-bred ONE DON after being beaten in a similar...

Published:Thursday | January 13, 2022 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

EAGLE ONE, a winner two runs down in class last week, could strike again with the handicaps in his favour on return to open-allowance company in Saturday’s St Catherine Cup at six furlongs. A grade-one winner last June, beating stablemate KING...

Published:Thursday | January 6, 2022 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AFTER a see-saw battle, which was effectively decided in the penultimate race of last season, the Anthony Nunes-Jason DaCosta rivalry has reared its head two meets into the new year with importees GO DEH GIRL and EAGLE ONE squaring off for their...

Published:Thursday | December 30, 2021 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SUPREME SOUL, the 2019 Triple Crown winner, has a chance to score his first victory in almost 18 months, having imported BEST DAUGHTER EVER as his lone obstacle in Saturday’s Fan Appreciation Day Trophy at his favoured nine furlongs and 25 yards....

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