SUPREME SOUL giving up 16lb at 10 furlongs and chasing down SENTIENT, 110lb, to win last month’s Governor’s Cup makes this afternoon’s Jamaica Derby a foregone conclusion, going 12 furlongs and sitting level with rivals. Anthony Nunes can go ahead...
Jamaica’s combined martial arts team members are fine-tuning training ahead of the 2019 US Open International Sports Karate Association World Martial Arts Championships, starting July 3 in Orlando, Florida. Ackeem Lawrence leads Jamaica’s 12-man...
THIS afternoon’s overnight allowance, at seven and a half furlongs, for horses who have never won at the level, should play into MY ELLE BELLE’s running style, her only real threat being CAPTUREMYSHIP. However, CAPTUREMYSHIP will have to prove his...
GARY Subratie’s United States-bred filly, HILLY’S HALO, faces five rivals in a near-farce in today’s Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame Stakes. Bar PATRIARCH, who she had behind by almost seven lengths in her loss to ANOTHER VIGOROUS on May 25, a...
LEADING trainer Anthony Nunes’ top fillies, PRINCESS AVA and I AM DI ONE, that who were floored by rival Wayne DaCosta’s 9-1 outsider, PRINCESS ANNIE, in last month’s 10-furlong Jamaica Oaks, return to the route course in separate races this...
LEADING trainer Anthony Nunes’ HOUDINI’S MAGIC easily won yesterday’s open allowance event at Caymanas Park, going past DRUMMER BOY on the final turn and sprinting clear to outclass UNCLE FRANK and SARATOGA SIGHT by four lengths. HOUDINI’S MAGIC’s...
CHAMPION trainer Wayne DaCosta appears to have a plan up his sleeve for UNCLE FRANK’s clash with Anthony Nunes’ HOUDINI’S MAGIC and SARATOGA SIGHT, with whom he renews rivalry in this afternoon’s fifth race after winning an eventful finish at seven...
PHILIP Feanny’s United States-bred LEGALITY is 12 lb lighter than he has ever been in five starts, three of which were convincing victories, interrupted only by defeat to EARN YOUR STRIPES, whom he allowed 15 lb at seven and a half furlongs in...
ANTHONY NUNES’ SUPREME SOUL, and his stablemate, EARN YOUR STRIPES, should have this afternoon’s Governor’s Cup field at their mercy, especially with the absence of Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes winner, RUN THATCHER RUN, the horse they had tag-teamed...
GARY Subratie’s one-eyed SARATOGA SIGHT missed the break but recovered down the backstretch to go in chase of stablemate UNCLE VINNIE, sprinting clear off the turn, before turning back a challenge from BRUCE WAYNE to win the Reynold Gonzalves...
GOING two turns, SARATOGA SIGHT’s big effort on December 12, caught stealing home by HOVER CRAFT at nine furlongs and 25 yards, appears to give him the edge over BRUCE WAYNE in this afternoon’s Ren Gonsalves Trophy at 10 furlongs. BRUCE WAYNE has...
RENEWING rivalry at a more favourable distance, nine furlongs and 25 yards, in today’s Legal Light Trophy, hoping to make amends for their third, and fourth-place finishes last time out, WILL IN CHARGE and SHE’S A MANEATER are up against old foe...
CHAMPION trainer Wayne DaCosta has a quartet of runners in this afternoon’s night pan, a 16-horse overnight allowance line-up – super-fit UNCLE FRANK, MADAM SECRETARY, WINTER IS COMING and LOTTERY TICKET. However, his main hopefuls, UNCLE FRANK...
LADY BLUE was the bait for Barbadian jockey Simon Husbands, who swallowed hook, line and sinker aboard Anthony Nunes’ 1-5 favourite, I AM DI ONE, after which PRINCESS ANNIE delivered the sucker punch for Team Wayne Dacosta, scoring a 9-1 upset in...
LEADING trainer Anthony Nunes’ 1000 Guineas winner, I AM DI ONE, has everything going for her and will be the shortest-priced Jamaica Oaks favourite in years, racing only the clock this afternoon. Foaled by IT IS I, who won the 2008 Governor’s Cup...
MASTER OF HALL’s running style and finishing speed are tailor-made for this afternoon’s Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy, an open allowance at nine furlongs and 25 yards. At 110lb, sharing bottom weight with stablemate PAKMAN, a no-hoper whose only role is...
TOP Jamaican shooters, led by Master Andy Yap and ‘A’ Class Ryan Bramwell, are in action against crack international marksmen at the ninth Jamaica Invitational Pistol Tournament (JIPT), starting at noon today and continuing tomorrow at the Jamaica...
APPRENTICE Reyan Lewis combined with Patrick Lynch yesterday to notch a rare jockey-trainer three-timer GLITTER RIVER, PERFECT ASSET and FORMAL FASHION all favourites on the 10-race card. Champion jockey Anthony Thomas also rode a three-timer,...
LEADING trainer Anthony Nunes looks set to continue his Easter dominance with the return of speedy PATRIARCH this afternoon, following his Guineas double with I AM DI ONE and SUPREME SOUL. Nunes has a three-timer lined up on the holiday 10-race...
WILL IN CHARGE, speedier than SHE’S A MANEATER, should have this afternoon’s six-furlong Lady Geeta Trophy at his mercy. He is lighter than her and will get to CHACE THE GREAT before she does. In addition, she is drawn at post-position one and...
SUPREME SOUL beat stablemate TOONA CILIATA by two lengths yesterday, closing an exacta-and-1000-2000 Guineas double for trainer Anthony Nunes, who landed Saturday’s fillies’ classic with I AM DI ONE. Nunes, comfortably the leading trainer after...
FAVOURITES St George’s College came roaring back at rivals recently, wiping out many-time former champions Calabar 4-1 at the Shai-Tai Karate Open at Campion College to take a 3-1 lead in the McKay Security Jamaica Taekwondo Schoolboy League....
RICHARD Stone was the toast of the evening, taking the coveted black belt heavyweight crown after going through Armani Bernard, the favourite, who had eliminated the other Jamaicans in the field. In the male black belt lightweight category, a...
SET at 157 yards at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Ann, the 11th hole will have a sleek prize awaiting the first player to hit a hole in one at the May 4-5 Sandals Golf and Jerk Festival. On Wednesday, the hole-in-one ‘trophy’, a shiny...
HOT claiming apprentice Christopher Mamdeen has shaken off one legend atop the jockeys’ standings, five-time former champion Trevor Simpson, with whom he was joint leader in early February, now, he has sights set on another, six-time former...
