HAVING spent four months in open allowance, a total of three races, including second- and third-place finishes behind grade-one horses, SHEER DELIGHT has served the mandatory three-month jail time, earning parole to overnight allowance, facing 11...
AFTER KICKING himself for an unwarranted change of equipment in the July 26 She’s A Maneater Trophy, TIZ TOK’s worst performance in six starts, title-chasing trainer Anthony Nunes has flung the blinkers far away from the United States-bred horse...
SPORTS TOURISM got a big boost last week with news out of the 11th Sandals Latin American Travel Advisors Golf Tournament of a spin-off set for November 21-26, a Jamaican-inspired Latin American all-female match, set to attract top Argentine...
JAMAICA’s bronze medal won in the 200-metre Major Mixed Final at the fourth Bahamas Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, August 30-31, has sparked a female run on the sport, which debuted locally at Port Royal in late May. Denise Romero-Williams, who...
BLACK Bombshell (Northern Giant-Buyabook), a $4.5-million sale-topper at the 2019 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Yearling Sale, and retired after earning a measly $39,950 from four starts, yesterday rewarded Trinidadian owner Chevan...
SUNDAY’s Winston Griffiths Classic, a nine-and-a-half furlong event designated as Grade II for three-year–olds, a line-up of mainly non-winners of three races, gets its status from an inflated purse, $3.75 million. A sort of post-derby Governor’s...
CUT DOWN by fellow American FUNCAANDUN being struck 24 times by Robert Halledeen while under a hand-ride from Raddesh Roman abiding to the whip rules, DESERT OF MALIBU returns on Saturday to defend her None Such Sprint title, two pounds lighter...
JAMAICA made a smashing international debut at the fourth Bahamas Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, claiming bronze in yesterday’s 200-metre Mixed Major Final at Goodman’s Bay in Nassau. Jamaica, who only started training for the international event in...
JAMAICA’s squad at the Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival yesterday got the approving nod of Canadian coach, Anthony Cao, who went out with the team for the first of two training sessions ahead of today’s start of competition at Goodman’s...
JAMAICA’s team to this weekend’s 2025 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival landed in Nassau yesterday morning, smartly attired in national colours, drawing admiration from airport to hotel and other competing teams based at Breezes Resorts...
MATURE CLAIMING rider, Romario Spencer, whose showboating antics aboard 16-1 shocker MATUSO recently had the outsider’s backers digging in heels as favourite OIL MACHINE soared forward, has Raddesh Roman to thank for what should be a winning ride...
THOUGH SPARINGLY raced, BARNABY might very well be the most improved horse out of last year’s Mouttet Mile, a point he could underline against FUNCAANDUN, winner of the US$250,000 race, when they meet in Saturday’s Distinctly Irish Trophy at nine...
CORPORAL Oshane Wilson, strongman on the mixed Dragon Boat team representing Jamaica at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, earned his place on performance in training, unlike his teammates, who...
MAMMA MIA, the mare who played lightweight rabbit for stablemate FUNCAANDUN, setting up the American to floor local champion ATOMICA in back-to-back grade-one races last season, before making all in an overnight allowance, returns to the scene of...
JAMAICA will be represented at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, by a McKay Security-sponsored mixed team, comprising mainly martial artists from the combined martial arts team. Mixed-team winners...
BESET by Mouttet Mile runners since beating INSPIRE FORCE and NEO STAR in April, last year’s derby runner-up, RUN JULIE RUN, faces another tough American, RIDEALLDAY, in Saturday’s Poorlittlerichgirl at seven and a half furlongs. After avoiding...
ST LEGER winner I DREAM AGAIN stuck his head in front, passing the winning post for the first time, liked what he saw in the mirror, and fought off all challenges to land the Jamaica Derby despite being passed in the stretch run by 1000 Guineas...
ST LEGER champion, I DREAM AGAIN, the horse that allowed former Member of Parliament, 82-year-old Derrick Smith, the chance to relive winning a classic race, bows into Wednesday’s Jamaica Derby seeking to emulate the once long-serving minister of...
PACK PLAYS, the American who led December’s US$250,000 Mouttet Mile (Grade 1) for four furlongs, yesterday shot past CALIFORNIA CROWN at the half-mile marker to outsprint rivals in the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission Trophy (Grade 2)...
LINGUIST’S second-place run behind BURNING HEDGE in the 1000 Guineas, handcuffed and boxed in behind horses from post-position two for the first six furlongs, served as confirmation of her preferred running style, which should hand the Aveenu...
VARIABLES ABOUND in Saturday’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) feature at five and a half furlongs, an open allowance in which no punter should try playing hero by jumping to a banker on raw form. PACK PLAYS and MAHOGANY, for...
DESERT OF MALIBU’s return to the winners’ enclosure three weeks ago, zipping seven and a half furlongs in 1:32.3, dismissing RUN JULIE RUN by seven lengths, confirmed how devastating the six-year-old American mare can be when let loose on the lead...
FROM HUMBLE beginnings of two gold medals in 2006 — Shawn Cummings in heavyweight continuous-sparring and two-man team-fighting won by Keith Edwards and Jason McKay — Jamaica’s combined martial arts team’s 20th anniversary at the 2026 International...
JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists closed the 2025 International Sports Karate Association’s United States Open with 28 medals — nine gold, 13 silver and six bronze — at the July 17-19 tournament. Richard Stone led with a double-gold as Jamaica combined...
JASON MCKAY, founder of Jamaica’s combined martial arts team, yesterday said the annual International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, held at the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, is the single-biggest...
