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Stories by Ainsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Published:Friday | January 24, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

EASILY second-best behind BLUE VINYL in December’s Will In Charge among overnight-allowance company at a mile, GEOLITHIC should frank the form in Sunday’s Bonnie Blue Flag Trophy at seven and a half furlongs. BLUE VINYL’s winning time, 1:38.3,...

Published:Thursday | January 23, 2025 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

PACK PLAYS returning 17 days after a crazy Mouttet Mile experience could have caused the American speedster to run his worst race in four starts when third behind BOOTYLICIOUS in the Chris Armond Sprint on Christmas Eve. A three-race winner in the...

Published:Thursday | January 16, 2025 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NO QUARTER will be given on the lead in Saturday’s George HoSang Trophy in which speedsters MUDSHAFT, BENSON, FREEDOM STREET, and THALITA should have a battle royal at six furlongs. Whereas BENSON might be class-suspect, overnight-allowance winner...

Published:Wednesday | January 15, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A PROLONGED Game of Thrones involving the St Catherine Football Association (SCFA) and its affiliates resulted in last Sunday’s start of the Major League being postponed indefinitely, leaving overburdened clubs and hundreds of footballers in limbo...

Published:Thursday | January 9, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

QUEEN OF SOUL has had excuses for four consecutive races since beating stablemate IMMEASURABLE JOY last September, putting her in line to land the coup in Saturday’s OTB Appreciation Day Trophy at seven furlongs. Since springing a 5-1 surprise...

Published:Friday | January 3, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JOY IS GOLDEN has been primed to make all in tomorrow’s overnight allowance at five furlongs straight, the trip at which she won back-to-back races, May and June of last year, closing a hat-trick with victory over FRED THE GREAT and PRESS...

Published:Thursday | January 2, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE flopped like a soggy fritter whereas stablemate COMMANDANT slaughtered rivals in the Floridians’ return to the races after finishing heads-on for second and third, respectively, behind FUNCAANDUN in last month’s Mouttet Mile. Backed as...

Published:Tuesday | December 31, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE, caught at the wire by fellow American FUNCAANDUN in December’s Mouttet Mile, returns for Wednesday’s Miracle Man Cup ridiculously sitting at level weight with ATLANTIC CONVOY, winner of the grade two Bruceontheloose that same afternoon...

Published:Friday | December 27, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CARL Anderson swept yesterday’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes as owner, trainer, and breeder of BURNING HEDGE, who franked his November 30 second-place run behind importee UNSPUN in the Mr Sensational, to beat LOVISA by eight and a half lengths in 1:...

Published:Tuesday | December 24, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RIDEALLDAY, impressive in victory when debuting at five and a half furlongs on Mouttet Mile Day, squares off with fellow American, UNSPUN, a winner of two races, for Saturday’s Dye Job Sprint, Race 4, Series 3, of the BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series...

Published:Saturday | December 21, 2024 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A SMALL but feisty field of six runners, dominated by four fillies, square off for Saturday’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes at a mile, hoping to be crowned champion native two-year-old. Among the lineup are three BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series winners...

Published:Friday | December 20, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

CHECKED and taken in hand, between COMMANDANT and FUNCAANDUN, exactly three and a half furlongs out, DESERT OF MALIBU’s checkered race record played true to form in the Mouttet Mile. Considered one of the local-based hopefuls against a squadron of...

Published:Thursday | December 19, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

FURTHER AND BEYOND’s brave run in the Mouttet Mile, fourth behind FUNCAANDUN, LEGACY ISLE and COMMANDANT, confirmed Donovan Hutchinson’s turnaround of the 2021 Horse of the Year, trained by Anthony Nunes as Jamaica Cup and Ian Levy winner that...

Published:Monday | December 16, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred UNBELIEVABLE FORCE easily won yesterday’s Charles Hussey Trophy, outclassing local-breds at five furlongs straight, making amends for a below-par effort at five and a half furlongs three weeks prior. Pointing UNBELIEVABLE FORCE...

Published:Friday | December 13, 2024 | 4:48 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED UNBELIEVABLE FORCE should prefer the straight course of Sunday’s Charles Hussey Trophy after locking horns and fading against speedsters SHE’S A GOD GIFT and MONEY MARKET at five and a half furlongs on November 23. Rushed from...

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

AFTER TAKING BOOTYLICIOUS back home for $3 million at the November 10 Mixed Sale, Peter-John Parsard is out to show the four-year-old speedster’s worth in Saturday’s Ahwhofah Sprint, lowered to overnight allowance after throwing a scare at a mile...

Published:Saturday | December 7, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Jamaica’s Mouttet Mile is now the richest horse race in the Caribbean, boasting a purse of US$250,000, while the horse-racing world turns its attention to Caymanas Park, the broadcast home of FOX Sports’ America’s Day at the Races today. Tuesday’s...

Published:Thursday | December 5, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

IT WAS almost a picnic at Caymanas Park last Sunday afternoon, punters out in droves to watch Gulfstream Park winner, Rohan Crichton’s LEGACY ISLE, in his first speed gallop for Saturday’s Mouttet Mile after clearing quarantine days earlier. One of...

Published:Wednesday | December 4, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ROLLING OUT his vision for a partnership between corporate Jamaica and football clubs en bloc that include ramping up the latter’s marketability and welfare of athletes in one swing, McKay Security’s chief executive officer, Jason McKay, last...

Published:Monday | December 2, 2024 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AQUAMARINES Ripples swept Saturday’s 5K events at the annual Jamaica Inn Foundation Swim for the Sanctuary open-water event, Charles McIntosh and Alexis Anglin clocking 1:16.34 and 1:41.19, respectively, in the male and female divisions at Shaw...

Published:Thursday | November 28, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

THE BGLC-TOBA Millionaires series hits fever-pitch on Saturday with four of six runners supplemented by their owners through the $150,000 eligibility-fee route for a $2 million bonus and $1.128 million winner’s purse in the Mr Sensational Trophy...

Published:Monday | November 25, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BESET BY injuries, with sparse replacement, due mainly to key players being left at home after failing to acquire visitors’ visas, only one Jamaica-based team reached the final four of the Florida Netball Classic. At press time last night, National...

Published:Saturday | November 23, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s POLICE National Netball Team, one of two squads representing the island’s security forces at the 2024 Florida Netball Classic Senior Open, which gets under way at the Miramar Youth Enrichment Center at 8 this morning, has a rich history...

Published:Thursday | November 21, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNBELIEVABLE FORCE’s brave front-running bid in the slop, which led to Jamaica Derby runner-up RUN JULIE RUN being caught at the wire by RAINSVILLE in the Errol ‘Big Sub’ Memorial at a mile, makes the United States-bred filly unbeatable in Saturday...

Published:Monday | November 18, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-INVADER BARNABY yesterday announced himself on his local debut with a workmanlike victory in Sunday’s Alsafra at seven and a half furlongs ahead of the Saturday, December 7, Mouttet Mile showdown for a purse of US$250,000. BARNABY,...

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