SATURDAY’s YVONNE Mattis Trophy has the makings of a tricky affair in which any of five runners – SUNSET SILHOUTTE, INSPIRE FORCE, RAINSVILLE, ALL FOR LOVE, and STOMP THE RHYTHM – could strike at the drop of a hat. ALL FOR LOVE and SUNSET SILHOUTTE...
Interesting times are indeed ahead following the running of the weekend’s Portmore and Kingston Guineas prep events. RUN JULIE RUN clocked 1:33.2 to easily land the fillies-only Portmore on Saturday, followed by INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD clocking 1:33.1...
INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD is beginning to have that Triple Crown look about him ahead of next month’s 2000 Guineas, especially after recovering from interference at the off to outclass rivals in the Prince Consort Stakes. It takes a special three-year-old...
ROBERT HALLEDEEN should thank his lucky stars that the stewards were in a good mood, or probably had too long a day, not to have been disqualified for his antics aboard BANADURA when beating stablemate COMEHOMETOME in the Thornbird Stakes three...
RADDESH Roman completed a five-timer, closing yesterday’s 10-race card with a hat-trick signed off by GET A PEPSI in the Temperence Oaks Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Starting the afternoon 13 behind leading rider Tevin Foster, title-...
TREMENDOUSLY improved since last summer, local-bred GET A PEPSI could break his overnight-allowance duck in Sunday’s Temperence Oaks Trophy. However, American CHAMPION BUBBLER’s hint of back class a month ago makes her a dangerous contender for the...
RHYTHM BUZZ, the best offspring of 2016 Gold Cup winner, in-utero Buzz Nightmare (Into Mischief-Queen of Battle), should confirm his form and versatility in Saturday’s Legal Light Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards after a cracking victory...
UNITED STATES-BRED UNCAPTURED EMPRESS appears back to form, having struck the right chord among local-breds, non-winners of three races, when finishing second behind POWER FROM ABOVE at a mile on March 24. A four-year-old who appears best at middle...
CHAMPION trainer Jason DaCosta yesterday completed the Guineas Trial double with Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes winner, INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD, who recovered from a poor start to land the Prince Consort Stakes for colts and geldings at seven furlongs....
JAMAICA Two-Year-Old Stakes champion, INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD, has been galloping smartly at exercise for Sunday’s Prince Consort Stakes, clocking a sharp 1:15.0 for six furlongs out the mile chute last Sunday. If there’s an unknown to test...
RUN JULIE RUN’s dull effort in blinkers late February took the sheen off her second-place run in December’s Jamaica Two-Year-Old Stakes. However, returning for Saturday’s Thornbird Stakes minus the blinders, the grey filly should make amends at...
DRAWN favourably at stall seven in a field of nine as the quickest on the faster stands’ side for Saturday’s closing event, SHE’S A GODGIFT should score the hat-trick even if blindfolded. Lining up against local-breds, non-winners of four races,...
ATOMICA had things her way in yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy, dominating Americans ROUGH ENTRY and IS THAT A FACT with her big middle-distance pace for a near 16-length win at a mile. Partnered by Omar Walker, who replaced Canada-bound Dane Dawkins,...
ATOMICA had no luck in running, though of her own doing, on both occasions she squared off with Gulfstream Park-invader ROUGH ENTRY. However, the 2022 Jamaica Derby winner can make amends for her quirkiness should Omar Walker keep her out of tight...
SATURDAY’s KING’S Plate could be a handicap gift to last year’s 1000 Guineas and Oaks winner, MAMMA MIA, returning with a 10lb weight swing on MONEY MONSTER, the winner of last year’s race. MAMMA MIA and MONEY MONSTER are fresh out of a hot six-...
ANTHONY Nunes saddled three winners yesterday, including 9-1 shot ALLEGIANCE, who closed fast along the rail inside the last half-furlong of the Sir Howard Stakes to nail 4-5 favourite J SPIETH at the wire. Considered the first official 2000...
TAMPA Bay Downs’ Pablo Morales and New Yorker Reylu Gutierrez, multiple graded-stakes winning jockeys in North America, make their Jamaica debuts at Caymanas Park on Easter Monday, April 1. Morales and Gutierrez join Panamanian Josue Osorio, as...
COURSE-SPECIALIST VOLATILITY will square off against RAMBLING ROSE, an equally potent rival at five furlongs straight, in Sunday’s overnight allowance, a quick dash restricted to for horses who are yet to win a race at the level. Arguably two of...
ONCE BITTEN, twice shy should not be the approach to classy DESERT OF MALIBU in Saturday’s Saint Cecelia Cup after clocking fantastic times from five furlongs straight to a mile, which she won in 1:38.2 when landing the St Elizabeth Distaff last...
RETURNING FOR Saturday’s Henry W. Jaghai Trophy at six furlongs, it is impossible to look past MAMMA MIA in an overnight allowance after her brave run with 121lb in the Allan E. ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial two Sundays ago. MAMMA MIA jetted CAPTAIN...
ABILITY, LAST year’s Jamaica Derby winner, Gold Cup second runner-up and Mouttet Mile runner-up, all grade-one events – albeit the derby is age-restricted – has an alibi, the conditions book, to make his second appearance two classes lower, among...
THE NAÏVE bet to stake in Saturday’s SVREL Anniversary Trophy is to ignore the red flags and consider SENSATIONAL MOVE much improved, considering his easy victory two Saturdays ago against the same cast in the Reggae Month Trophy. However, if there...
RICHARD Stone, who defeated the United States’ Sheldon Spencer in the International Taekwondo Federation bout at last year’s ESPN-televised Night of Champions at the International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, heads a list of...
ATLANTIC CONVOY and FURTHER AND BEYOND swallowed MAMMA MIA approaching the furlong pole, a two-pronged attack, which not even the photo-finish camera could separate at the wire of yesterday’s seven-furlong Allan ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial. MAMMA MIA...
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...
