SENSATIONAL SOUL, who won last month’s Kingston with a bold rail run, pulling away from RUNAWAY STAR and STRONG MIND, should land Sunday’s 2000 Guineas title, which had escaped his brother, Toona Ciliata, denied by Triple Crown winner Supreme Soul...
DESERT OF MALIBU got a rude welcome-back off a five-month lay-up, dragged by COMMANDANT in the Seeking My Dream Trophy two weeks ago through terrifying splits which left the six-year-old mare sputtering in the stretch run. COMMANDANT, who has,...
REYAN LEWIS, 2023 champion rider, measured titleholder and leading jockey Raddesh Roman, aboard MAJOR DANGER, reeling in the tearaway leader as an angler would an exhausted catch, in a well-timed ride to land yesterday’s Labour Day Trophy by a neck...
CAUGHT AT the wire by UNSPUN in the Henry W Jaghai Trophy at six furlongs on May 3, UNBELIEVABLE FORCE should redeem herself in Saturday’s Millard Ziadie Memorial, going a half-furlong shorter, among overnight-allowance winners. Cruising into the...
FEARLESS FORCE’S demolition of return winner, fellow American SHEER DELIGHT, makes Philip Feanny’s four-year-old foreigner a tough horse to beat with 108lb in Friday’s Labour Day Trophy at seven furlongs. Richie Shakes’ bug takes FEARLESS FORCE’s...
UNITED STATES-BRED DESERT OF MALIBU returns from a well-deserved five-month break, primed for Saturday’s Seeking My Dream Trophy, facing stablemate ATOMICA at seven and a half furlongs. Last raced on Christmas Eve, DESERT OF MALIBU failed by a half...
RHYTHM BUZZ, reporting at 120lb, after allowing SHEER DELIGHT six pounds and losing in a driving finish at a mile, gives the son of Buzz Nightmare an outstanding chance to floor American stayer GIRVANO in Saturday’s Yvonne Mattis Cup at nine...
SENSATIONAL SOUL and SOCIAL AVIATOR used rail routes to win last-furlong duels in yesterday’s Kingston and Portmore Guineas trials, respectively, both clocking 1:35.1 at seven furlongs. A full brother to 2019 St Leger runner-up Toona Ciliata, Gary...
CHAMPION trainer Jason DaCosta looks all set to sweep Sunday’s Portmore and Kingston, Guineas trials with SOCIAL AVIATOR and RUNAWAY STAR, contrasting runners-up in the recent Thornbird and Prince Consort Stakes. RUNAWAY STAR actually passed the...
BOOTYLICIOUS’ HANDICAP reprieve, coming in at 117lb for Saturday’s Reggae Trophy, in receipt of weight from all but MAMMA MIA and CHAMPION BUBBLER, hands the five-year-old speedster a significant advantage at five furlongs straight. Last out March...
RUN JULIE RUN, the brave filly who lost last year’s Jamaica Derby by a half-length to CROWN CHASER, yesterday posted a routine victory in the Legal Light Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards, booking her ticket back to grade one after being beaten...
RUN JULIE RUN has a 14lb weight swing on American INSPIRE FORCE out of last month’s Alexander Hamilton Memorial at seven furlongs, a weight advantage which should hand the Jamaica Derby runner-up Sunday’s Legal Light Trophy on a platter at nine...
PHILIP FEANNY summoning claiming rider Tyrese Anderson to replace Raddesh Roman’s second-call retainer aboard DIVINE FORCE may very well make the difference between winning and losing Saturday’s World Vet Day Trophy at a mile. Roman was originally...
MAHOGANY USED his class to turn back United States-bred UNBELIEVABLE FORCE in yesterday’s Easter Sprint Cup at five and a half furlongs, logging his 19th win from 34 starts as the 3-5 favourite. Breaking smartly from post-position three, the 2022...
OUTBATTLED by fit NEO STAR with a 15lb handicap against him at seven and a half furlongs, 2022 Gold Cup winner MAHOGANY returns among overnight-allowance runners in Monday’s Easter Sprint Cup, the eight-year-old’s connections hoping his ageing legs...
LEGACY ISLE won the Omar Walker Trophy under a hand ride and a loose rein, clocking 1:00.1 for five furlongs round, under topweight 126lb, suggesting he should be tough to beat in Saturday’s Saint Cecelia Cup at six and a half furlongs. However,...
PRINCE ROY had a troubled trip when losing the six-furlong Sir Howard Stakes by three-quarter length to HONOUR PRINCE, a loss he should avenge at seven furlongs in Saturday’s Prince Consort Stakes. Running fifth along the rail down the backstretch...
UNITED STATES-bred CHAMPION BUBBLER yesterday franked her March 1 win, off an eight-month break, with another storming finish at five furlongs straight, overhauling MONEY MARKET close home to land the Linval McFarlane Trophy for overnight-allowance...
SUNDAY’s Linval McFarlane Trophy presents a real challenge for form players, a five-furlong straight event for which horses have tumbled from as high as grade one to overnight allowance. RHYTHM BUZZ, one of the most improved horses in training last...
SATURDAY’S IAN Levy Cup at eight and a half furlongs pits Mouttet Mile winner FUNCAANDUN against third-past-the-post COMMANDANT in what will be a matter of which of the two emerged the better horse from the richest and toughest race of last season...
UNITED STATES-BRED stablemates PACK PLAYS and WALL STREET TRADER could repeat their Eileen Cliggott Memorial exacta in Saturday’s Gregory Park Sprint at five furlongs round. Both came out of December’s Mouttet Mile in terrific shape, PACK PLAYS...
NEO STAR, sold for $2.5 million by the Parsards’ Paradise at Spring Village at November’s Mixed Sale, yesterday ironically outbattled former stablemate and 2022 Gold Cup winner MAHOGANY to land division one of the King’s Plate at seven and a half...
LAST SEEN blowing away United States-bred EASY AS A B C and 2023 St Leger winner, THALITA, among open-allowance runners in August, MAHOGANY, who was denied consecutive Gold Cup victories by lightweight SHE’S MY DESTINY two years ago, returns off a...
ANOTHER MOUTTET Mile graduate, runner-up LEGACY ISLE, the Florida invader caught at the wire by his local-based compatriot, FUNCAANDUN, should go on a romp two classes lower in Saturday’s Omar Walker Trophy at five furlongs round. Having impressed...
COMMANDANT, THIRD behind runner-up and stablemate LEGACY ISLE in December’s Mouttet Mile, a grade-one invitational event, gets his crack at plundering open-allowance opponents, a full level lower, in Saturday’s Alexander Hamilton Memorial at seven...
