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Stories by Ainsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2026 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Lascelles Logan, president of the St Thomas Football Association, said Restaurants of Jamaica’s sponsorship of under-17 teams has eased the tremendous burden of providing nutrition to young players on match days. “These youngsters will one day...

Published:Monday | March 16, 2026 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHE’S THAT GIRL won yesterday’s Trevor ‘Slicer’ Simpson Trophy by almost a dozen lengths, clocking a fast 59.4 at five furlongs round, completing back-to-back overnight allowance victories in 15 days. Considered a classic contender in 2024 before...

Published:Friday | March 13, 2026 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NOT having to face any open-allowance runner slipping down in class, speedy SHE’S THAT GIRL has dodged a bullet in Sunday’s Trevor ‘Slicer’ Simpson Trophy at five furlongs round, her first shot at overnight-allowance winners. MINIATURE MAN, who...

Published:Thursday | March 12, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SUPERNATURAL POWER aims at a third open-allowance win in six months after exposing her grade-one credentials with fourth-place finishes in last year’s Gold Cup and Mouttet Mile. KIcking off for her four-year-old season, with Raddesh Roman back in...

Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2026 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Akin to John F. Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what can you do for your country”, Custos Joseph Issa’s call for parishioners to be proactive has given legs to the novel St Ann Custos Commando initiative. Two significant...

Published:Tuesday | March 10, 2026 | 1:47 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Olympian Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Sunday thanked the sponsors who enabled her foundation to stage the Pocket Rocket Foundation’s Six-A-Side Football Competition for a 10th year, culminating in an All-Star team of 13 players and two coaches being...

Published:Saturday | March 7, 2026 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Criminologist and forensic-reconstruction expert, Dr Jason McKay, has stated that Jamaica needs to be thankful, proud and supportive of the various state agencies’ collective roles that led to former Member of Parliament (MP) Jolyan Silvera...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2026 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Lascelles Logan, St Thomas Football Association president, has hailed McKay Security’s record-breaking $1-million Major League prize money as a “major boost” amid the firm’s overall $5.1m sponsorship package of the parish’s football. Speaking at...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s 36-strong team to the April 4-10 Carifta Swimming Championships in Martinique on Friday received a $400,000 sponsorship boost from Main Event Entertainment Group, much to the appreciation of the Aquatic Sports Association of Jamaica (ASAJ...

Published:Monday | March 2, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LIGHTWEIGHT claiming rider Tajay Suckoo yesterday wrapped the weekend of racing at Caymanas Park with a runaway win aboard 4-5 favourite SHE’S THAT GIRL in the closing event for the Omar Walker Trophy, his fourth winner in two days, following a...

Published:Friday | February 27, 2026 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

COOKIE DAY N NIGHT gets a pace to stalk and pounce in Sunday’s Omar Walker Trophy at five and a half furlongs after being used up and run off his legs from the one hole at seven and a half furlongs late January. A sprint for horses who have never...

Published:Thursday | February 26, 2026 | 12:18 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Saturday’s feature events, the Billy Williams Memorial and OTB Appreciation Trophy, should both be treated with caution, middle-distance events set for the late double in which closers will be lethal at seven furlongs and six and a half,...

Published:Thursday | February 26, 2026 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Whereas Jamaica’s basketball team continues its quest for a first-ever FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 spot, facing Bahamas this evening in Group B Americas qualifying, the country has already made a historic mark, getting a “close to 100 per cent”...

Published:Friday | February 20, 2026 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CALIFORNIA CROWN has no chance of winning Saturday’s Chairman’s Trophy. Yet, the speedster’s role, a pace-setting rabbit for stablemates INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD, GIRVANO and PROVIDENT, will determine the winner of the event. The bullseye will be on PACK...

Published:Thursday | February 19, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

United-States bred WALL STREET TRADER yesterday defied topweight 126lb to mow down DON KWESI approaching the furlong pole, landing the Ash Wednesday Trophy in out-of-class fashion, franking his upset victory over two-time Mouttet Mile runner-up...

Published:Tuesday | February 17, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DON KWESI, the most improved local-bred of last season, makes his overnight-allowance debut in the midweek Ash Wednesday Trophy after flattening foreigners, AMERICAN AVIATOR and FRED THE MASTER, in back-to-back races. Though cutting back in...

Published:Thursday | February 12, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MIGHTY GULLY returns with the scale and five furlongs straight as bonuses, sweetened by Tajay Suckoo’s four-pound claim, making her seasonal debut in Saturday’s Reggae Month Trophy after a brave run in December’s Bruceontheloose at six and a half...

Published:Friday | February 6, 2026 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BARNABY, seventh-place finisher in the 2024 Mouttet Mile, who humbled two-time Horse-of-the-Year ATOMICA in back-to-back races last season, clocking a stakes record 1:43.4 in the Ian Levy at eight and a half furlongs, returns unbeatable off a near...

Published:Thursday | February 5, 2026 | 12:19 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Perfectly drawn at post-position 11, stalking-sprinter CHAMPION BUBBLER returns to her happy hunting ground, five furlongs straight, at which only a sub-59.0 will deny the seven-year-old United States-bred mare in Saturday’s George HoSang Trophy....

Published:Wednesday | February 4, 2026 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

New Raiders Football Club won a historic court action against the beleaguered St Catherine Football Association (SCAFA) last Friday. Justice David Batts upheld an injunction barring the parish’s governing football body from finalising its 2024-2025...

Published:Thursday | January 29, 2026 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BRUCEONTHELOOSE Sprint grade-one winner, Florida invader OF A REVOLUTION, should avenge his shocking grade-two Miracle Man Cup loss to fellow American GIRVANO when they lock horns in Saturday’s Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six and a half furlongs....

Published:Thursday | January 29, 2026 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Still in awe and shock at the extent of damage wreaked by Hurricane Melissa in the western half of Jamaica last October, TotalEnergies Jamaica’s Managing Director Vincent Daniault appeared eager to oversee last Friday’s handover of 1,884 solar...

Published:Wednesday | January 28, 2026 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Inn Foundation’s Swim For The Sanctuary, staged at Shaw Park Beach, St Mary, last Saturday, rescheduled from its annual fixed date of the first Saturday of November after the October 28 passage of Hurricane Melissa, continues to be an...

Published:Thursday | January 22, 2026 | 12:18 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

TAYLOR MADE’s exercise gallops make her unstoppable in Saturday’s Rimsky Trophy at six furlongs, her first outing as a three-year-old, after trotting up against two-year-old maidens on debut at five furlongs round in December. Sired by Aveenu...

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2026 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NAUTICAL STAR, the Florida invader who Anthony Nunes had aimed at the Mouttet Mile, harbouring hopes of a come-from-behind win in last season’s trainers’ stakes race, returns two classes lower in Saturday’s six-furlong St Catherine Cup among...

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