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Published:Monday | July 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's Nicholas Dusard has said he will use his Night of Champions loss at the recent International Sport Karate and Kickboxing Association (ISKA) United States Open as motivation to prepare even harder for the Amateur Members Association World...

Published:Friday | July 20, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DESPITE facing open allowance horses for the first time in a year, champion trainer Wayne DaCosta's POKER STAR should have no problem putting away rivals with the handicaps and draw in his favour for this afternoon's open allowance at five furlongs...

Published:Wednesday | July 18, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHECKEMA CUNNINGHAM, Jamaica's lone karate representative at the Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) in Barranquilla, Colombia, is desperately undergoing a third conversion of fighting styles in time to make the July 25-27 competition....

Published:Tuesday | July 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Red-hot apprentice and leading rider Anthony Thomas has been given the task of trying to get renowned speedster CRUCIAL APPEAL stay the distance in this afternoon's overnight allowance at six and a half furlongs.Thomas was aboard the ageing warrior...

Published:Monday | July 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA'S Akino Lindsay recently rewrote International Sports Karate Association United States Open history in Orlando, Florida, by completing a four-gold haul in sparring at the world's biggest martial arts tournament.The 23-year-old Drewsland, St...

Published:Sunday | July 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's stocks as a host country for international sporting events were sent soaring further on Friday with the Jamaica Rifle Association's (JRA) launch of the seventh Pan American Handgun Championship, set for the week of July 22-29 at two venues...

Published:Friday | July 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SIEMPRE BUENO has the draw to his advantage against MR UNIVERSE in this afternoon's five-furlong straight Reggae Trophy, a clash between the country's two fastest horses.The pair met in the May 26 Lotto Sprint, at five and a half furlongs, and...

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEADING RIDER Anthony Thomas yesterday combined with champion trainer Wayne DaCosta to boot home three winners, his fifth in two days, pushing him to 55 for the season -19 clear of Shane Ellis atop the jockeys' standings. Thomas, who rode two...

Published:Sunday | July 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA's martial artists won 26 medals on Saturday, including six gold, to end the International Sports Karate Association United States Open with a haul of 41 medals - 12 gold, 9 silver and 20 bronze.Led by Akino Lindsay's double gold in clash and...

Published:Friday | July 6, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA'S big three, the combined martial arts team of Olympian Kenneth Edwards, Richard Stone, and Akino Lindsay, yesterday opened the island's medal count with gold in the open-weight three-man team fight before returning to sweep the top three...

Published:Thursday | July 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA will be going all out today in their speciality, continuous sparring, across all ranks and age groups, setting the stage to eclipse the 68 medals won at last year's International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open.Fighters...

Published:Monday | July 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ITALY's Timothy Bos will face Jamaica's Nicholas Dusard on Saturday as the most decorated fighter to have ever graced the International Sports Karate Association's Night of Champions stage at the United States Open in Orlando, Florida.Bos, 20,...

Published:Friday | June 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SEISHIHAN Tony Robinson of Seido Karate, president of the newly formed Jamaica Karate Federation, is expressing delight at the possibility of the country having a martial artist at the 2020 Olympic Games, eight years after Kenneth Edwards qualified...

Published:Friday | June 29, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CHAMPION trainer Wayne DaCosta's DRUMMER BOY is vastly improved and has the experience of veteran jockey Gary Richards, plus the necessary pace, to get first run on COMMANDER TWO in this afternoon's Boom Jamaica Derby.So improved is DRUMMER BOY that...

Published:Thursday | June 28, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's top martial artists get a last chance to sharpen their skills at this Saturday's Everlast Seido Karate International Tournament ahead of departing the island for the International Sports Karate Association United States Open the following...

Published:Monday | June 25, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA's Nicholas Dusard will attempt to repeat his feat of beating a multiple world champion live on ESPN's Night of Champions when he faces Timothy Bos of Italy at the 2018 International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open in...

Published:Sunday | June 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica's contingent of 50 martial artists will start departing the island on July 3 for the 2018 International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida.Led by fighters from Jamaica'...

Published:Friday | June 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

WAYNE DaCosta's MR UNIVERSE will have the lead for himself in this afternoon's Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame Stakes trophy but can still be caught by Anthony Nunes' ORPHEUS in the six-furlong event for open allowance runners.MR UNIVERSE's awesome...

Published:Friday | June 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

WILL IN CHARGE has been dealt a bad hand by the handicapper, which, if he even defies, on principle, would not vindicate him being allotted topweight 126lb for this afternoon's Chairman's Trophy, giving away weight to old rival BIGDADDYKOOL and two-...

Published:Tuesday | June 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GUINEAS winner COMMANDER TWO will seek to answer DRUMMER BOY's Lotto Classic victory by taking on older horses in this afternoon's open allowance, a seven-furlong event, which will be keenly watched by rival connections with the Jamaica Derby three...

Published:Friday | June 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

STRICTLY at the weights, last year's Lotto Sprint winner, TALENTED TONY K, who carried 126lb and led the Easter Sprint to the furlong pole two months ago, should be the horse to beat on paper with 111lb in this afternoon's overnight allowance at the...

Published:Thursday | May 31, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A powerful horse racing lobby, the Jamaica Heads of Horse Racing Association (JHHRA), on Tuesday unanimously voted to petition Supreme Ventures Racing and...

Published:Sunday | May 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

St George's College scored a tie-breaking victory over Calabar High to grab an unbeatable 3-2 lead in the Jamaica Taekwondo McKay Security High School Team Sparring Competition during Saturday's Zendo Open at the University of Technology.Duncan...

Published:Wednesday | May 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

FEMALE apprentice Mellisa Ward returned to the winners' enclosure amid rousing applause yesterday after getting MARVELLOUS MARVA to last home by a head from HOVER CRAFT, ridden by six-time champion jockey Omar Walker, in the 1820-metre Mark My Word...

Published:Tuesday | May 22, 2018 | 12:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SURROUNDED by top jockeys on three horses from the yard of champion trainer Wayne DaCosta, female apprentice Mellisa Ward will have to display nerves of steel aboard Philip Feanny's grey mare, MARVELLOUS MARVA, in this afternoon's co-feature, the...

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