A TRICKY track bias and equipment changes are to be noted in Saturday’s divided feature, the Grooms’ Association Trophy, at five furlongs straight. Patrick Lynch’s RING CHARMER catches the eye in division one, drawn widest at post 10 with Youville...
Police targeting of gang activities in the crime hotspots of Newland, Naggo Head, Gregory Park, and Central Village has paid off with a reduction in murders, says Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips, who commands the St Catherine South...
ONEOFAKIND first had the trip and handicaps to his benefit, followed by an even bigger weight advantage in their second match-up but is still searching for a way to get to the winning post before CALCULUS. Dane Nelson has been summoned to replace...
TEKAPUNT scored a stunning 10-1 upset in yesterday’s six-furlong Sir Howard Stakes for colts and geldings, throwing a spanner in the first 2000 Guineas prep race, which left 1-5 favourite PERFECT BREW struggling home in fifth place. Partnered by...
PERFECT BREW’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes run, a determined second behind off-the-pace winner GOLDEN WATTLE, after grabbing the lead coming off the home turn, makes Richard Azan’s runner awfully hard to beat at six furlongs in Sunday’s Sir Howard...
BRED TO sprint from head to tail, PRNCSSHOOTINGSTAR has been on ice, awaiting the six-furlong Hot Line Stakes since placing third in November’s Pick 3 Super Challenge at seven furlongs behind BRINKS, narrowly missing the runner-up spot to fast-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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,...
