ANTHONY NUNES’ chances of dethroning Jason DaCosta as champion trainer depends on two horses with Guyanese connections, NAUTICAL STAR in the $45.15-million Mouttet Mile and OF A REVOLUTION in the $15m Bruceontheloose Sprint. Runner-up to DaCosta in...
IF STAR power could propel RIDEALLDAY to the winners’ enclosure, the recent Port Royal Sprint winner would be a shoo-in for Saturday’s US$300,000 Mouttet Mile at Caymanas Park. Shortly after landing the November 16 Port Royal Sprint, it was...
HAVING finished back-to-back tournaments by conceding in gold-medal bouts due to injury, Nicholas Dusard, 36, pound for pound Jamaica’s most decorated martial artist, believes his time is winding down on the international scene. Dusard won his...
CALIFORNIA CROWN, who made MONEY MARKET look ordinary when dismissing his fellow local-bred in an overnight allowance at five furlongs round in June, returned after a six-race dalliance among open-allowance runners, effectively ending his time in ‘...
DANE DAWKINS rode three thrilling winners on yesterday’s 10-race card, closing the late double with feature-event victories astride DIGITAL ONE and HAZELNUT in the Alsafra Trophy and Flossie McNeil Memorial Cup, respectively. Wintering locally, on...
AFTER failing by a length to land the gamble at 7-2 behind fellow American DOTHRAKI making his local debut, October 19, DIGITAL ONE gets an easier pace to dominate in Sunday’s Alsafra Trophy at seven and a half furlongs. Quietly whispered to...
UNITED STATES-BRED BULLETPROOFCOFFEE and CHAMPION BUBBLER, both course-specialists and overnight-allowance winners, should prove hard to beat in their respective divisions of Saturday’s Racehorse Aftercare Trophy feature. BULLETPROOFCOFFEE’s four...
MOJITO yesterday changed the colour of December’s US$300,000 Mouttet Mile from stars and stripes to green, gold and black with a telling length-and-a-half win against American GIRVANO in the Jamaica Cup at nine and a half furlongs. Sitting 26th in...
Jamaica’s Police National Netball Team (PNNT), on Saturday, cruised into Sunday’s Championship Division as favourites to top the inaugural Florida United Netball (FUN) Extravaganza at the Vernon E. Hargray Youth Enrichment Center in Miramar,...
ZULU WARRIOR on Saturday made amends for his loss the last time races were run at Caymanas Park, October 25, closing the first meet after the passage of Hurricane Melissa by landing the Stargas United Racehorse Trainers Association of Jamaica...
JAMAICA’s POLICE National Netball Team (PNNT) and their Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) counterparts are among 11 teams entered in the all-female division of this weekend’s inaugural Florida United Netball (FUN) Extravaganza at the Vernon E....
MOJITO’S WIN in the Kenneth Mattis Memorial was not only flashy, an eight-length dismissal of United States-bred UNSPUN, it was also the fastest time clocked at nine furlongs and 25 yards in more than 14 months. Reporting with 120lb for Sunday’s...
ANOTHER ONE should make amends when he tackles overnight-allowance for the third time in Saturday’s feature for the Stargas United Racehorse Trainers Association of Jamaica trophy. Bred to sprint, ANOTHER ONE’s classic ambitions ended abruptly with...
HOME-BASED AMERICAN, FUNCAANDUN, who outbattled Florida invader LEGACY ISLE, to deny Rohan Crichton back-to-back Mouttet Mile winners, will have to win next Sunday’s Jamaica Cup at nine and a half furlongs to have a shot at defending his title on...
RICHARD Stone, Jamaica’s second-most decorated fighter behind countryman Akino Lindsay, said he is not worried that his combined martial arts teammate has widened the gap in gold medals won at the International Sports Kickboxing Association Amateur...
THE THOROUGHBRED Owners and Breeders Association of Jamaica (TOBA) yesterday announced Sunday, December 7, as the new date for its annual Mixed Sale, allaying fears that the event would have been cancelled this year, a fallout from the passage of...
JAMAICA’S HORSE-RACING breeding industry was dealt a crushing blow by Hurricane Melissa, the powerful storm exacting what appears to be the near decimation of Trelawny’s iconic Orange Valley Estates Limited. The Instagram page of the many-time...
UNITED States-bred MAIN MISTRESS and in-form native runner ZULU WARRIOR should use similar running styles to land divisions one and two, respectively, of Saturday’s Front Runner Caymanas Park Announcers’ Trophy at six and a half furlongs....
UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER yesterday climbed a further $764,000 up the Mouttet Mile qualification ladder with victory over fellow American, TIZ TOK, in yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy at a mile. Already sitting 10th among horses based in...
UNITED States-bred DOTHRAKI served notice on grade-one sprinters with an eye-catching debut victory at Caymanas Park yesterday, dismissing fellow American INCREDIBLE JO coming off the home turn, notching a length-and-quarter victory ahead of late-...
SUPERNATURAL POWER’S first brush with grade-one horses, two Saturday’s ago in the seven-furlong Gold Cup, took her within a length and a quarter of Mouttet Mile runner-up, LEGACY ISLE, with whom she almost sat level at the scale. Added to her leap...
A Game of Thrones will be played out in Sunday’s overnight allowance between Americans INCREDIBLE JO and DOTHRAKI, yes, DOTHRAKI, a former Bob Baffert runner named after the fictional, nomadic horse-riding people in HBO’s wildly successful Game of...
IS THAT A FACT has been sharpened at exercise and looks ready to blow away overnight-allowance rivals at a mile in Saturday’s Errol Subratie Memorial. Jason DaCosta’s flag-bearer in grade one last year, IS THAT A FACT beat ATOMICA in the Chairman’s...
LIGHTWEIGHT SHARIC Bowen has become accustomed to gradual improvement throughout his martial arts journey, describing himself as a “late bloomer”. However, having won a bronze medal at his first International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur...
COACHES AURANE Phoenix and Fabian Swaby are both high in confidence ahead of this evening’s Kingston and St Andrew Football Association Business House Challenge Cup final for the Raymond Quallo Memorial Trophy, starting at 7 p.m. at Constant Spring...
