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Stories by Ainsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Published:Thursday | April 10, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | April 7, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Friday | April 4, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | April 3, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | March 27, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Monday | March 24, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 10:01 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:58 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Thursday | March 13, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

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...

Published:Friday | March 7, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS HUNTS a fourth consecutive win in Saturday’s SVREL 8th Anniversary Trophy at an ideal five-and-a-half furlongs. However, matching speed, influenced by handicaps, could bring the five-year-old mare’s run of glory to a screeching halt....

Published:Thursday | March 6, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED WALL STREET TRADER, running on a conditions bye among overnight - allowance company after beating the level by almost 10 lengths in the Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission last August, made a mockery of yesterday’s Ash...

Published:Saturday | March 1, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SCRATCHED from division one of the Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial on February 8, American WALL STREET TRADER holds all the aces in the March 5 Ash Wednesday Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Running on a get-out-of-jail card, on condition of...

Published:Thursday | February 27, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED COMMANDER Z appears reprogrammed without blinkers for Saturday’s Mabrouk Sprint at five furlongs straight, his favourite trip, after two dull performances up in class against overnight-allowance winners. Having skipped a level...

Published:Friday | February 21, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SUNDAY’s co-features - the BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series at six and a half furlongs, Race 5, Series 2, and the one-mile Lloyd Lindbergh ‘Lindy’ Delapenha Memorial – will be dominated by foreigners aiming at top-class races this season. Champion...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:04 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE’s brave mid-stretch bid against speedster CALIFORNIA CROWN, after being hindered shortly after the start when last out, makes the five-year-old tough to beat among overnight-allowance winners in Saturday’s James B Dawes Memorial at...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:00 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HAVING WON a third Category Award for excellence in taekwondo at last month’s annual RJRGLEANER Sports Foundation Sportsman and Sportswoman Awards ceremony - in addition to being recognised by Europe’s International Sport Kick Boxing Association (...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:59 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JASON MCKAY, president of New Raiders Football Club and chief executive officer, McKay Security, said his company’s gear sponsorship of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association’s Under-17 League is an investment that will eventually redound...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:57 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MICHAEL PANCHAN, president, Royal Lakes Football Club, is relieved that his club’s cries in the wilderness have finally started turning the wheels of justice. However, he is utterly disappointed that it has taken a second court injunction against...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:56 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JASON MCKAY, president of New Raiders Football Club, who lost a presidency battle for the St Catherine Football Association (SCFA) to Elaine Walker-Brown last August, has warned that the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) should be mindful of what...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:49 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PETER-JOHN Parsard’s ridiculed decision to take a four-year-old sprinter, BOOTYLICIOUS, back home from the November 10 Mixed Sale, also turning down a post-sale offer of $3.5 million, has started making sense for the Doubting Thomases. The Key To...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:32 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS ambushing Mouttet Mile runners, DESERT OF MALIBU and PACK PLAYS, on Christmas Eve will go down as the five-year-old mare’s most impressive of eight wins to date, a victory she should follow up in Sunday’s Reggae Month Trophy at five...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:26 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

WALL STREET TRADER and MAMMA MIA, horses who have held their own against the country’s best on multiple occasions, as recent as two weeks ago, should put lower-rated rivals to the sword in their respective divisions of Saturday’s Allan E ‘Billy’...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:58 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE’s flirt among $1.5-1.2 million claimers on New Year’s Day was taking candy from a baby, a warm-up for Saturday’s Trevor ‘Slicer’ Simpson Trophy at six furlongs. Taking advantage of the new claiming level, inflated to attract horses...

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 4:37 PMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PANAMANIAN Ismael Velasquez yesterday completed a weekend sweep of trophy races at Caymanas Park, rallying even-money favourite GEOLITHIC to beat fellow American SHE’S A GODGIFT by a length and a quarter in the Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy. Velasquez,...

Published:Saturday | January 25, 2025 | 4:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

OSHAE Haye on Sunday partnered with Carl Brown, in the absence of regular teammate, Zandre Roye, for a one-stroke victory, grossing 62 at the 22nd annual Ocho Rios charity tournament held at Sandals Golf and Country Club in Upton, St Mary. Haye,...

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