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Published:Friday | March 7, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS HUNTS a fourth consecutive win in Saturday’s SVREL 8th Anniversary Trophy at an ideal five-and-a-half furlongs. However, matching speed, influenced by handicaps, could bring the five-year-old mare’s run of glory to a screeching halt....

Published:Thursday | March 6, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED WALL STREET TRADER, running on a conditions bye among overnight - allowance company after beating the level by almost 10 lengths in the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission last August, made a mockery of yesterday’s Ash...

Published:Saturday | March 1, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SCRATCHED from division one of the Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial on February 8, American WALL STREET TRADER holds all the aces in the March 5 Ash Wednesday Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Running on a get-out-of-jail card, on condition of...

Published:Thursday | February 27, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED COMMANDER Z appears reprogrammed without blinkers for Saturday’s Mabrouk Sprint at five furlongs straight, his favourite trip, after two dull performances up in class against overnight-allowance winners. Having skipped a level...

Published:Friday | February 21, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SUNDAY’s co-features - the BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series at six and a half furlongs, Race 5, Series 2, and the one-mile Lloyd Lindbergh ‘Lindy’ Delapenha Memorial – will be dominated by foreigners aiming at top-class races this season. Champion...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:04 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE’s brave mid-stretch bid against speedster CALIFORNIA CROWN, after being hindered shortly after the start when last out, makes the five-year-old tough to beat among overnight-allowance winners in Saturday’s James B Dawes Memorial at...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HAVING WON a third Category Award for excellence in taekwondo at last month’s annual RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation Sportsman and Sportswoman Awards ceremony - in addition to being recognised by Europe’s International Sport Kick Boxing Association (...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:59 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JASON MCKAY, president of New Raiders Football Club and chief executive officer, McKay Security, said his company’s gear sponsorship of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association’s Under-17 League is an investment that will eventually redound...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:57 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MICHAEL PANCHAN, president, Royal Lakes Football Club, is relieved that his club’s cries in the wilderness have finally started turning the wheels of justice. However, he is utterly disappointed that it has taken a second court injunction against...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:56 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JASON MCKAY, president of New Raiders Football Club, who lost a presidency battle for the St Catherine Football Association (SCFA) to Elaine Walker-Brown last August, has warned that the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) should be mindful of what...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:49 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PETER-JOHN Parsard’s ridiculed decision to take a four-year-old sprinter, BOOTYLICIOUS, back home from the November 10 Mixed Sale, also turning down a post-sale offer of $3.5 million, has started making sense for the Doubting Thomases. The Key To...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:32 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS ambushing Mouttet Mile runners, DESERT OF MALIBU and PACK PLAYS, on Christmas Eve will go down as the five-year-old mare’s most impressive of eight wins to date, a victory she should follow up in Sunday’s Reggae Month Trophy at five...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:26 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

WALL STREET TRADER and MAMMA MIA, horses who have held their own against the country’s best on multiple occasions, as recent as two weeks ago, should put lower-rated rivals to the sword in their respective divisions of Saturday’s Allan E ‘Billy’...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:58 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE’s flirt among $1.5-1.2 million claimers on New Year’s Day was taking candy from a baby, a warm-up for Saturday’s Trevor ‘Slicer’ Simpson Trophy at six furlongs. Taking advantage of the new claiming level, inflated to attract horses...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:37 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PANAMANIAN Ismael Velasquez yesterday completed a weekend sweep of trophy races at Caymanas Park, rallying even-money favourite GEOLITHIC to beat fellow American SHE’S A GODGIFT by a length and a quarter in the Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy. Velasquez,...

Published:Saturday | January 25, 2025 | 4:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

OSHAE Haye on Sunday partnered with Carl Brown, in the absence of regular teammate, Zandre Roye, for a one-stroke victory, grossing 62 at the 22nd annual Ocho Rios charity tournament held at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary. Haye,...

Published:Friday | January 24, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

EASILY second-best behind BLUE VINYL in December’s Will In Charge among overnight-allowance company at a mile, GEOLITHIC should frank the form in Sunday’s Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy at seven and a half furlongs. BLUE VINYL’s winning time, 1:38.3,...

Published:Thursday | January 23, 2025 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PACK PLAYS returning 17 days after a crazy Mouttet Mile experience could have caused the American speedster to run his worst race in four starts when third behind BOOTYLICIOUS in the Chris Armond Sprint on Christmas Eve. A three-race winner in the...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NO QUARTER will be given on the lead in Saturday’s George HoSang Trophy in which speedsters MUDSHAFT, BENSON, FREEDOM STREET, and THALITA should have a battle royal at six furlongs. Whereas BENSON might be class-suspect, overnight-allowance winner...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A PROLONGED Game of Thrones involving the St Catherine Football Association (SCFA) and its affiliates resulted in last Sunday’s start of the Major League being postponed indefinitely, leaving overburdened clubs and hundreds of footballers in limbo...

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

QUEEN OF SOUL has had excuses for four consecutive races since beating stablemate IMMEASURABLE JOY last September, putting her in line to land the coup in Saturday’s OTB Appreciation Day Trophy at seven furlongs. Since springing a 5-1 surprise...

Published:Friday | January 3, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JOY IS GOLDEN has been primed to make all in tomorrow’s overnight allowance at five furlongs straight, the trip at which she won back-to-back races, May and June of last year, closing a hat-trick with victory over FRED THE GREAT and PRESS...

Published:Thursday | January 2, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE flopped like a soggy fritter whereas stablemate COMMANDANT slaughtered rivals in the Floridians’ return to the races after finishing heads-on for second and third, respectively, behind FUNCAANDUN in last month’s Mouttet Mile. Backed as...

Published:Tuesday | December 31, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE, caught at the wire by fellow American FUNCAANDUN in December’s Mouttet Mile, returns for Wednesday’s Miracle Man Cup ridiculously sitting at level weight with ATLANTIC CONVOY, winner of the grade two Bruceontheloose that same afternoon...

Published:Friday | December 27, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CARL Anderson swept yesterday’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes as owner, trainer, and breeder of BURNING HEDGE, who franked his November 30 second-place run behind importee UNSPUN in the Mr Sensational, to beat LOVISA by eight and a half lengths in 1:...

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