HAVING improved leaps and bounds since fitted with the visor at the back end of last season, ONEOFAKIND has this year caught up with his classic peers, humbling the St Leger and Jamaica Derby winners, NIPSTER and KING ARTHUR, in back-to-back races...
AMBUSHED by 16-1 outsider EAGLE ONE in what was an anticipated rematch on May 25, United States-bred EXCESSIVE FORCE and imported-in utero DOUBLE CROWN lock horns at a mile in Saturday’s Alsafra Trophy with nothing to separate them in the nine-...
FATHER PATRICK chased DEEP BLUE SEA off the lead and ran away from EROY up the lane to easily win yesterday’s six-furlong Lady Geeta Trophy as the 7-5 favourite. Reunited with Oshane Nugent, with whom he won back-to-back races in December and...
TOPWEIGHT five-year-olds, DUKE and FATHER PATRICK, should duke it out in Monday’s six-furlong Lady Geeta Trophy - one enjoying his best days ever and the other indicating that a two-month lay-up might have been what the doctor ordered to restore...
IT’s really hard not to back the respective winter-book favourites, SHE’S A WONDER and FURTHER AND BEYOND, to prove their dominance, at level weight, against their peers in Saturday’s 1000 and 2000 Guineas classics. The last time SHE’S A WONDER...
SATURDAY’s closing event will be a sprinter’s paradise, non-winners of two races, going five and a half furlongs, SURE CURLIN and SUPER DUPER, the top contenders and drawn alongside each other. SURE CURLIN has 10 runs under her girth, the last...
DOUBLE CROWN returns off a four-month lay-up carrying topweight, but back among overnight allowance runners in Tuesday’s Labour Day Trophy, after dismissing classy ANOTHER AFFAIR at the level on January 23. Renewing rivalry with imported EXCESSIVE...
THE ‘Kingston’ might have been the last ‘major’ 2000 Guineas prep but the script for the colts-and-geldings classic won’t be finalised until after a pair of seven-furlong events set for this Saturday. Champion trainer Anthony Nunes, revelling in a...
Course-specialist ROJORN DI PILOT tracked early leader FORMAL GLADIATOR before taking charge of yesterday’s five-furlong straight overnight allowance event, beating late-charging RAS EMANUEL by two lengths. Always the horse to beat on back class...
ROJORN DI PILOT gets a plumb draw on the stands’ side in Monday’s overnight allowance at five furlongs straight, which should put him well clear entering the main track. It’s hard not to back course specialist ROJORN DI PILOT after his encouraging...
FURTHER AND BEYOND showed all the tell-tale signs of being a bit ring-rusty in the April 8 Prince Consort Stakes, lasting home by a short head from BILLY WHIZZ, who he allowed nine pounds, reporting off a three-month break for the seven-furlong...
VICTORY TURN made all the running to crash the party in yesterday’s overnight allowance at six furlongs, at odds of 26-1, upstaging 4-5 favourite LABAN. A speedy five-year-old United States importee, VICTORY TURN coasted into the lane clear of...
SHE’S A WONDER’s Thornbird Stakes win, an easy 10-length romp after being slowly into stride, makes tomorrow’s Portmore fillies-only event a spectator’s race, despite her allowing weight all around in the seven-and-a-half furlong event. Runner-up...
Total’s rollout of Jamaica’s first automated car wash in Portmore Pines is the first of three targeted for the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region and Montego Bay by 2022. Commercial Director Antoine Bennevault believes that competitive price...
ONEOFAKIND staged a tremendous rally inside the last half-furlong of yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy to outfinish stablemate NIPSTER, completing a hat-trick of wins for a 7-1 upset in his first outing among open allowance/graded stakes runners....
BACK-TO-FORM Jamaica Derby-winner, KING ARTHUR, should easily land this afternoon’s JRC World Vet Day Trophy at a mile after reporting off a three-month plus break with a fast-time win at five furlongs straight, collaring speedy BASILICUS a furlong...
TOONA CILIATA’s acceleration in last month’s Chairman’s Trophy, splits of 58.3 and 1:11.0, coming out of an opening quarter of 23.4, the first three furlongs in 35.0, a move that crippled rivals, confirmed him as the country’s top-rated runner,...
DISQUALIFIED open-allowance winner, SIR ALTON, returned from a near five-month break to land yesterday’s closing event at five furlongs straight. Reporting down in class among overnight allowance runners on a get-out-of-jail card, being a...
TALENTED foreigners, SPARKLE DIAMOND and SIR ALTON, report off respective four-month lay-ups, down in class, among overnight allowance runners, in Monday’s closing event, a five-furlong straight dash, with top-rated chances against their local-bred...
Gary Subratie’s importer, AWESOME TREASURE, appears the horse to beat, on paper, in the Aston Commock Memorial tomorrow at a mile but Ian Parsard’s in-form and improved DEJAE’S BOY has a score to settle after his February 13 attempt to shock rivals...
SHE’S A WONDER made short work of rivals, a little over 10 lengths to be exact, easily winning the seven-furlong Thornbird Stakes with runner-up ACTION ANN looking on from a different world yesterday. Partnered by Reyan Lewis, the speedy filly (...
DESPITE overhauling a pair of fillies, who both appear to be sprinters, SHE’S A WONDER and his stablemate, HOIST THE MAST, to win December’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes at a mile, FURTHER AND BEYOND remains the best three-year-old colt in training...
SHE’S A WONDER’s 59.3, walloping LURE OF LUCY by four lengths on February 6, is the fastest any horse has clocked for five furlongs round this season since the racing surface started running heavy in the second week of January. The closest any...
Wayne DaCosta’s death from COVID-19 complications, after ailing for weeks, brought down the curtain on the most dominant horse-racing training career in the history of local racing. DaCosta’s iron grip, broken in 2019 by Anthony Nunes, included a...
AFTER enduring six second-place finishes on Saturday, including a late charge aboard SENTIENT in losing the Chairman’s Trophy to TOONA CILIATA, joint champion jockey Anthony Thomas took apart yesterday’s 11-race card with four winners, closing his...
