THANKSGIVING MIGHT be two months away, but Team 6 had their turkey on Tuesday, three birdies in a row, rallying from second to beat day-one joint leaders Team 20 by one stroke in the 18th US Travel Advisors Golf Tournament at Sandals Golf and...
FORMER national player Jonathan Newnham yesterday watched as the 18th US Travel Advisors Golf Tournament teed off at a venue he knows all too well – Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary – freshly minted as resident pro in charge of the...
CALCULUS, last year’s Jamaica Derby winner, went on an afternoon stroll in yesterday’s Kenneth Mattis Memorial at nine furlongs and 25 yards, dismissing stablemate AWESOME TREASURE a half-mile out before staying on in workmanlike fashion to easily...
POINTING to a full field of 150 participants down to tee off in this morning’s 18th annual United States Travel Advisors Golf Tournament at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett on Saturday said the...
CALCULUS will be a no-brainer banker on every ticket punched Sunday, scandalously down two groups among overnight-allowance runners after failing by a half-length to catch KING ARTHUR in the Grade One Eros Trophy six weeks ago, allowing the 2020...
WERE A line to be run through MAHOGANY’s loss to RUNAWAY ALGO, reporting lightly trained off a seven-month break in mid-April, it would be reasonable to say the five-year-old gelding’s last true defeat was December 2020 when finishing fourth in the...
THOUGH HE failed to win a classic race, BRINKS regained form in time to claim runner-up spots in the 2000 Guineas and Jamaica Derby, plus a third-place run in the St Leger, to put his miserable early season performances behind him, again showing...
RICHARD Azan’s POWER RANKING and ARTESIA upstaged favourites in back-to-back races yesterday, handing the veteran trainer the two biggest purses on the 10-race card. Omar Walker made a decisive move with 9-2 chance ARTESIA down the backstretch to...
RACING among horses who have never won an overnight allowance, United States-bred THE GOOD WITCH is technically down in class for Sunday’s ninth event at seven furlongs, beaten three times in July by runners now campaigning in open allowance/graded...
LEADING RIDER Dane Dawkins and champion Anthony Thomas square off on Saturday aboard JORDON REIGN’S and KING ARTHUR, respectively, in what should be a cracker for the She’s A Maneater Trophy at a mile. Dawkins has been unrelenting in his quest for...
D HEAD CORNERSTONE used his classic form, fourth in the St Leger and Jamaica Derby, to outstay UNRULY DUDE in yesterday’s Caymanas Park 1959 feature race at a mile, collaring the speedster a half-furlong out before pulling away for a comfortable...
SPENCER Chung’s imported maiden, REAL BOSS, had her petticoat exposed on last, a flying second to PERFECT BREW at seven furlongs after being broadsided shortly after the start and all but tailed off down the backstretch. Fitted with blinkers for...
EAGLE ONE belongs nowhere near overnight-allowance runners, having beaten open allowance/graded stakes in February, afterwards holding his own in subsequent races at the level, including a four-length finish for fourth behind JORDON REIGN’s 1:12.3...
IAN PARSARD stablemates, imported JORDON REIGN’S and last year’s classic-winning filly, SHE’S A WONDER, are down to meet in Saturday’s Reggae Trophy at five furlongs straight, with two pounds separating her from the gelding. JORDON REIGN’S is on a...
OUR ANGEL confirmed her status as the second-best filly in the country with a convincing victory in yesterday’s 10-furlong Jamaica Oaks, thwarting bids from GOLDEN WATTLE and SILENT MISSION in a five-length win over joint 2-1 favourite SUNSET...
IF THERE was ever a horse to have benefitted from the classic season starting two months later, instead of let’s-get-it-over-and-done-with April to July, Robert Pearson’s OUR ANGEL can take a bow heading into Sunday’s Jamaica Oaks at 10 furlongs....
ATOMICA’s FLASHY 1:25.3 at exercise last Sunday has reignited the filly versus colt saga for Saturday’s Jamaica Derby despite BLUE VINYL’s convincing victory at 10 furlongs in the St Leger a month ago. Unbeaten in five starts heading into the St...
IAN PARSARD’S MAHOGANY used his terrifying mid-race pace early in the stretch run to kick clear of natural sprinters, GOD OF LOVE and LABAN, for a predictable five-and-a-quarter length win in yesterday’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission...
AFTER flirting with a third track record on his last outing, posting 1:30.2 to get within a second of Sky Train’s 1983 mark of 1:29.2, MAHOGANY returns at five and a half furlongs in Monday’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Trophy...
EROY’s out-of-class win in the Hubert Bartley Memorial a month ago, unchallenged in a downpour, scooting home 10 lengths clear with topweight 126lb, clocking 1:31.0 for seven and a half furlongs, spells danger for all and sundry in Saturday’s Eros...
CURLIN’S AFFAIR reports ready for work in Saturday’s overnight allowance, armed with a doctor’s certificate explaining his last-place finish behind JORDON REIGN’S at six and a half furlongs on June 18. The Perfect Curlin-Nuclear Affair colt raced...
TITLE-chasing rider Dane Dawkins lit up yesterday’s nine-race card with a four-timer including an upset 7-1 victory aboard Richard Azan’s PELICULA in the Terremoto Trophy feature event at 10 furlongs for three year olds, restricted to imported...
D HEAD CORNERSTONE’s fourth-place run in the 10-furlong Jamaica St Leger, his sixth outing since debuting in May, confirmed the Bern Identity-Soul of the Heart colt’s stamina, which should make him a winner at the distance in Sunday’s Terremoto...
GARY SUBRATIE’S DUKE reports nine pounds heavier after his June-25 win at five and a half furlongs over imported DOUBLE DIVA, hunting back-to-back grade one victories against similar foes. However, DUKE’s chances in Saturday’s six-furlong...
LEADING trainer Jason DaCosta landed a three-timer, and rival Anthony Nunes, last year’s champion conditioner, closed yesterday’s nine-race card with 17-1 upsetter, DEVONTE, in the John Clifton Wright Memorial feature event. DaCosta, well clear of...
