AFTER clocking the second-fastest mile at Caymanas Park to score a runaway victory in last year’s Mouttet Mile, United States-bred RIDEALLDAY did the unthinkable last Monday morning, almost shattering the seven-furlong track record in preparation...
DON KWESI gets favourable company in Saturday’s Linval McFarlane after being beaten by overnight-allowance winners in consecutive races. Claiming rider Demar Williams replacing Dane Dawkins also gives the four-year-old colt a five-pound allowance...
Michael Panchan, president, Royale Lakes Football Club, is celebrating a court order instructing the St Catherine Football Association (SCAFA) to immediately lift a two-year ban and $300,000 fine imposed on the club on January 17, 2025. Panchan,...
SIR DON dismissed AMERICAN AVIATOR and ran away from RAINSVILLE, his lone threat in the stretch run, to clock a fast 1:31.2 in yesterday’s King’s Plate, redeeming himself as a three-year-old after back-to-back losses had blotted an unbeaten run of...
JASON DaCosta retaining Tevin Foster to partner AMERICAN AVIATOR, despite going three pounds over the allotted 114lb, indicates the champion trainer is supremely confident that the foreigner can go gate-to-wire in Sunday’s King’s Plate at seven and...
Saturday’s Gregory Park Sprint has the makings of a pace collapse, which should play into the hands of United States-bred WALL STREET TRADER after his gallant third behind Mouttet Mile runner-up FUNCAANDUN and fourth-placed SUPERNATURAL POWER in...
BEHIND the guts and glory of the 116-year-old ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships, a network aligns to make ‘Champs’ the hub of Jamaica’s international track and field prowess. While teen stars bask in the spotlight, unsung...
From the benches of Parliament to the debating society at The University of the West Indies (UWI), arguments for and against legalising consensual sex among minors continue to stir opposing views, particularly an accompanying Jamaicans For Justice...
MARK BENNETT, president of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association, broke the ice at the recent handover of McKay Security’s $1 million sponsorship cheque for winners of the 2026 KSAFA Wray...
SALUTE THE DON and TAYLOR MADE are contrasting Aveenu Malcainu-sired choices for Saturday’s Sir Howard and Hotline Stakes, six-furlong sprints for colts and fillies, respectively, Guineas hopefuls with one win under their girths. SALUTE THE DON’s...
Peter-John Parsard, last year’s most improved trainer’s $100,000 donation to the Jamaica Jockeys-Agents Association towards exercise riders’ licensing fees for the 2026-2027 season, has led the association’s president, Donovan Wilson, to call out...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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”...
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...
