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Stories by Ainsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Published:Sunday | April 26, 2026 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

United States-bred SUPERNATURAL POWER won yesterday’s World Vet Day Trophy as she should, a horse who shouldn’t have been in the race, coasting in a baker’s dozen clear of IS THAT A FACT, another out-of-class American, who had four lengths to spare...

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2026 | 10:57 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

United States-bred SIR DON made the most of sloppy conditions to outrun fellow American GOODBYE FIREFLY in yesterday’s Saint Cecelia Trophy at six and a half furlongs, dampening an expected showdown with local-bred MOJITO, who failed to fire on his...

Published:Sunday | April 12, 2026 | 1:35 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

SALUTE THE DON paid the price of trying to escape WE JAMMIN in yesterday’s Prince Consort Stakes, losing what would have been a safe runner-up spot to 19-1 outsider DASHALLDAY, who he had beaten by 10 lengths in last month’s Sir Howard Stakes....

Published:Sunday | April 5, 2026 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DON KWESI made light work of fellow non-winners-of-an-overnight, beating last year’s Jamaica Oaks winner, LINGUIST, by seven lengths in the restricted event for the Linval McFarlane Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Beaten by overnight-allowance...

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2026 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Dane Dawkins closed a four-timer with a hat trick yesterday including MONEY MARKET, whose form reversal in the Gregory Park Sprint humbled 4-5 favourite SHE’S THAT GIRL, denying the speedy five-year-old three consecutive victories. Champion jockey...

Published:Sunday | March 22, 2026 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

True to form, December’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes shaped the results of yesterday’s prep races for three-year-olds chasing classic glory this season, TAYLOR MADE and SALUTE THE DON both making every post winning ones in the Hotline and Sir...

Published:Sunday | March 15, 2026 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

FUNCAANDUN, 2024 Mouttet Mile winner and third behind RIDEALLDAY in last year’s race, proved his superiority down in class among open-allowance runners by outfinishing fellow American SUPERNATURAL POWER in yesterday’s Alexander Hamilton Memorial at...

Published:Sunday | March 8, 2026 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Anthony Nunes served notice on champion trainer Jason DaCosta yesterday, closing a stinging five-timer with a hat-trick completed by NEO STAR in the International Women’s Day Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. Starting the day $1.8 million clear...

Published:Sunday | March 1, 2026 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

FLORINDIA showed exactly how much difference a change of barn can make, wiring rivals by nine and a quarter lengths to land yesterday’s seven-furlong Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial on her first start for Anthony Nunes. Winless in five races...

Published:Sunday | February 22, 2026 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Mouttet Mile veteran, United States-bred PACK PLAYS, completed back-to-back grade-one victories yesterday, wiring GIRVANO in the Chairman’s Trophy at seven and a half furlongs, three weeks after similarly landing the Eileen Cliggott Memorial. PACK...

Published:Sunday | February 15, 2026 | 1:01 PMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MONEY MARKET closed fast on the stands’ side to overhaul lightweight MIGHTY GULLY stealing home in yesterday’s Reggae Month Trophy at five furlongs straight, completing a second consecutive win since finishing second to Florida invader OF A...

Published:Sunday | February 8, 2026 | 12:19 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Dane Dawkins rode a five-timer yesterday, a half of the day’s 10-race card, closing a jockey-trainer three timer with Gary Subratie’s LEXI LOU, who made all against fellow maidens at five furlongs straight in the Eight Thirty Sprint for three-year-...

Published:Sunday | February 1, 2026 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Mouttet Mile Day’s Bruceontheloose Sprint winner, seven-year-old Florida-invader OF A REVOLUTION, flopped for the second consecutive race this season, outsprinted by fellow American PACK PLAYS in yesterday’s Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six and a...

Published:Sunday | January 25, 2026 | 12:21 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Fernando yesterday became the second Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes-placed runner to win on return as a three-year-old, charging from sixth position at the top of the straight after being tailed off down the backstretch, to nail 12-1 outsider ANY...

Published:Sunday | January 18, 2026 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

NAUTICAL STAR, the Florida invader who finished ninth as a 2-1 favourite in December’s Mouttet Mile, yesterday poured scorn on the conditions book, which allows imported winners of multiple races overseas to be immediately lowered two classes,...

Published:Sunday | January 11, 2026 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Tevin Foster and lightweight claiming rider, Jaheim Anderson, dominated Caymanas Park yesterday, booting home favourites and outsiders alike, to seal three-timers on the 10-race card. Riding as light as 107lb, Anderson made good use of his nine-...

Published:Sunday | January 4, 2026 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ZULU WARRIOR yesterday made amends for his December 13 loss to Canadian ATLANTIC CONVOY at six furlongs, powering away from ANOTHER ONE to beat late-closing American, CHAMPION BUBBLER, by almost six lengths in the Security Department Trophy at five...

Published:Sunday | December 28, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE, Gold Cup champion and two-time Mouttet Mile runner-up, closed Caymanas Park’s stakes season with a race-record decimation of rivals in the Chris Armond Memorial Sprint, winning by an official 12 lengths, passing the post 2.2 seconds...

Published:Sunday | December 21, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

WARSAW, a 37-1 upsetter in yesterday’s fourth race, survived a stewards’ inquiry and double jockeys’ objection, after holding off the late charging pair of 3-5 favourite PRINCE AMAAN and WHISKY at five and a half furlongs. The second-longest shot...

Published:Sunday | December 14, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

Canada-bred ATLANTIC CONVOY, winner of last year’s Bruceontheloose Sprint on Mouttet Mile Day, yesterday won his first race in more than a year, Dane Nelson returning aboard the five-year-old to outfinish hurriedly ridden ZULU WARRIOR with leading...

Published:Sunday | December 7, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RIDEALLDAY YESTERDAY avenged October’s Gold Cup loss to LEGACY ISLE, powering past his drifting rival a furlong out to hand 14-time champion trainer Philip Feanny a second Mouttet Mile triumph in three years and a win on Jamaican soil for visiting...

Published:Sunday | November 30, 2025 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CALIFORNIA CROWN, last year’s 2000 Guineas winner, yesterday blasted United States invader, FORTUNA BELLE, with speed in the Kaz Hoshay Trophy, leaving fellow local-breds, ZULU WARRIOR and COOKIE DAY N NIGHT, to pick up the scraps, closing for...

Published:Sunday | November 23, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LOCAL-BRED RUNNERS, MIGHTY GULLY and PRINCE AMAAN, yesterday turned back Americans, BULLETPROOFCOFFEE and CHAMPION BUBBLER, to win divisions one and two, respectively, of the Racehorse Aftercare feature event at five furlongs straight. The native-...

Published:Sunday | November 16, 2025 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

BASKING IN the joy of his first international gold medal, won in Brisbane, Australia at last month’s International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships, 23-year-old martial artist Sharic Bowen’s...

Published:Sunday | October 26, 2025 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CAYMANAS PARK again stared an impending weather system into the eye and got through 10 races, MAIN MISTRESS and MR SENATOR winning the divided Announcers’ Trophy, before battening down ahead of Hurricane Melissa, forecast to cut across the island,...

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