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Published:Friday | February 23, 2024 | 12:22 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ATLANTIC CONVOY has a 14lb weight swing on CAPTAIN CALICO in Sunday’s Allan ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial, four pounds lighter, after giving up 10lb when beaten by five lengths last October. With the weight swing in his favour, ATLANTIC CONVOY could...

Published:Thursday | February 22, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ROUGH ENTRY returns to the scene of his Mouttet Mile victory – well, almost – going seven and a half furlongs in Saturday’s Chairman’s Trophy. To say the five-year-old American is the horse to beat would be the understatement of the year,...

Published:Friday | February 16, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DESERT OF MALIBU returning in tomorrow’s Reggae Month Trophy at five furlongs straight, picking up a paltry five pounds, is the proverbial slap in the face that the condition book presents when ‘races won’ are measured by quantity instead of...

Published:Thursday | February 15, 2024 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GREEN GOLD RUSH took the widest route of all challengers, after leaving the half-mile marker next-to-last, to outfinish 6-1 chance GET A PEPSI and 88-1 outsider, United States-bred TAURUS BOY, in yesterday’s Ash Wednesday Trophy at six and a half...

Published:Saturday | February 10, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PUNTERS should tread carefully in the holiday Ash Wednesday feature in which old rivals LABAN, DUKE and FREEDOM STREET face down-in-class MONEY MONSTER at six and a half furlongs, the trip at which pace often collapses. A challenging event for even...

Published:Thursday | February 8, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

DIVINE FORCE gets the ideal trip, a mile, in Saturday’s ‘Lindy’ Delapenha Memorial to mow down speedsters I REALISE and FURTHER AND BEYOND, who should cancel themselves on the lead trying to escape each other. A danger to all whenever controlling...

Published:Thursday | February 1, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA-BORN ECLIPSE Award-winning jockey, Shaun Bridgmohan, who has twice won six races on a card in North America, first at Aqueduct in 1998 and at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, 2007, has a great shot at scoring a hole-in-one, partnering Philip...

Published:Monday | January 29, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RADDESH ROMAN catapulted to the top of the jockeys’ standings yesterday with a six-timer, eight winners at the weekend, following his two-timer on Saturday. Sweeping the James B Dawes Memorial at contrasting odds, SENSATIONAL MOVE at 4-5 and A GIFT...

Published:Friday | January 26, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GARY Subratie’s SENSATIONAL MOVE should start favourite to win division one of Sunday’s James B. Dawes Memorial after chasing home NEO STAR at nine furlongs and 25 yards on New Year’s Day when making his overnight-allowance debut. SENSATIONAL MOVE...

Published:Thursday | January 25, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

IS THAT A FACT’s brave second-place effort to ATOMICA in the Ian Levy Cup not only franked the United States-bred colt’s Mouttet Mile effort but further exposed how he had managed to go on a four-win streak before being stopped in his tracks by...

Published:Friday | January 19, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SHOULD RHYTHM BUZZ reproduce his December 17 victory in the slop or his prior run against CAPTAIN CALICO, not to mention a strong second-place finish behind imported ATLANTIC CONVOY on November 4, Sunday’s Bonnie Blue Flag at seven and a half...

Published:Thursday | January 18, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

STARTING THE weekend $2.32 million behind leader Gary Subratie, whose out-of-class American, DESERT OF MALIBU, spotted the field a dozen lengths before mowing down MADELYN’S SUNSHINE in last Saturday’s St Catherine Cup, Jason DaCosta has eyes on a...

Published:Monday | January 15, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HOME-course heroes Oshane Haye and Zandre Roye, yesterday warmed up for the January 18-21 Latin America Amateur Championship at Santa Maria Golf Club in Panama by defending their Ocho Rios Charity Golf Tournament title, emerging gross winners on 59...

Published:Thursday | January 11, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RETURNING IN Saturday’s St Catherine Cup at six furlongs with five impressive fast times, from five furlongs straight to a mile, it will take an out-of-this-world performance to deny five-year-old DESERT OF MALIBU. United States-bred DESERT OF...

Published:Friday | January 5, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

GOD OF LOVE was far from disgraced last time out behind EMPEROROFTHECATS in the Ahwhofah Trophy at six furlongs on December 10, putting him in good stead to finally break his five-furlong straight jinx in Saturday’s Security Department Trophy. GOD...

Published:Tuesday | January 2, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ATOMICA ran MAMMA MIA off the lead and awaited her rival’s stablemate, IS THAT A FACT, who she battled from against the rail in the stretch run, rallying when headed off, to land yesterday’s Ian Levy Cup by almost six lengths. Forgiven by punters...

Published:Saturday | December 30, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MAMMA MIA being her only speed threat in Monday’s Ian Levy Cup at eight and a half furlongs, ATOMICA is set to put yet another disappointing Mouttet Mile run to rest. MAMMA MIA, who has never beaten open-allowance company, more so grade one, has...

Published:Friday | December 29, 2023 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BREAKING from the inside post in division one of Saturday’s Vestia Trophy, MONEY MISER has avoided the foreigners in division two, instead facing the likes of NORBLAR and SUPER ALEX, who he had outclassed by three lengths at nine furlongs and 25...

Published:Wednesday | December 27, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

INTERESTNTIMESAHEAD ACCELERATED rapidly from sixth position, three and a half furlongs out, to turn for home chasing RUN JULIE RUN, collaring the grey filly midway the stretch run for an impressive three-length win in yesterday’s Jamaica Two-Year-...

Published:Saturday | December 23, 2023 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

COMEHOMETOME impressed at exercise last Tuesday morning, clocking the fastest seven-furlong among two-year-olds, 1:29.0, putting aside FASTNFURIOUSLINKS, who posted 1:29.4 in their workout ahead of next Tuesday’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes at a...

Published:Thursday | December 21, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

THINGS COULD get tricky for bettors in Saturday’s Chris Armond Memorial Sprint with champion trainer Jason DaCosta holding the aces, topweight SHE’S MY DESTINY and speedy United States-bred MADELYN’S SUNSHINE, who will report 20lb lighter than her...

Published:Monday | December 18, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MORIMOTO and SNOWFLAKES took advantage of higher ground at five furlongs straight to complete the track-bias exacta in yesterday’s Charles Hussey Trophy. While their rivals toiled mid-track in heavy underfoot conditions, caused by steady rainfall...

Published:Friday | December 15, 2023 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PERFECTLY drawn at post-position 11 with no frightening speed close enough to claim the stands’ side, MORIMOTO should use his superior mid-race pace to dominate Sunday’s Charles Hussey Trophy at five furlongs straight. POWER RANKING and BRINKS,...

Published:Thursday | December 14, 2023 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

FREEDOM STREET will try escaping with 114lb in Saturday’s open allowance at seven furlongs, but Richard Azan has thrown up Abigail Able aboard LABAN at 101lb to keep Patrick Lynch’s runner honest on the lead for PERFECT BREW to pounce. PERFECT...

Published:Monday | December 11, 2023 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

EMPEROROFTHECATS took over from GOD OF LOVE after a furlong and ran away from the pack leaving the half-mile marker for an easy win in yesterday’s six-furlong Ahwhofah Trophy. Unraced since May when beating open-allowance runners at odds of 16-1 at...

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