ST GEORGE’s College will start their defence of the Jamaica Taekwondo McKay Security High School League at October’s Jamaica Taekwondo Open without four key fighters who led them to their first outright title last season. Coach Andre Sinclair, who...
A ONCE sleepy residential area of mainly senior citizens, whose children of the 1970s left their nests at the start of the millennium, Harbour View’s rapid transition to a university community has come with its economic spinoffs, but with criminals...
POOR BIGDADDYKOOL, just when he thought he might have got a break from SHE’S A MANEATER, who turns six next year and might make a good broodmare prospect, here comes STRANGER DANGER ready to dish out another year of walloping. STRANGER DANGER makes...
POST position one is not necessarily a bad draw for 1000 Guineas winner I AM DI ONE in this afternoon’s Saint Cecelia Trophy at six and a half furlongs. She is a forceful filly who gives her riders hell to contain and should break sharp enough...
TRAINER Gary Subratie is taking a bold gamble with his importee, BOLD AFLAIR, who carries topweight 126lb with jockey Robert Halledeen in this afternoon’s ninth event, a sprint at five and a half furlongs, despite having the services of leading...
SHE’S A MANEATER is all set to surpass EROS’ mark of 21 victories as a top-class horse when she lines up this afternoon in the Gold Cup, the very event in which EROS immortalised himself in 1994, setting one of four track records he held...
GIVING weight all around, St Leger runner-up TOONA CILIATA will need the help of stablemates BIG BANG and, most important, UNIVERSAL BOSS to stave off Gary Subratie’s pair of SENTIENT and United States-bred SHE’S AN INTROVERT in this afternoon’s...
ALL eyes will be on the tote board after this afternoon’s ninth race to see how fast SPARKLE DIAMOND completes seven and a half furlongs among overnight allowance horses as he begins his quest to qualify for November’s Diamond Mile. Having already...
THIS afternoon’s O & S Tack Room Trophy feature, at six and a half furlongs, is one of those distances which require a combination of speed, mid-race pace and gumption up the lane to conquer. Anthony Nunes’...
RUN THATCHER RUN and BIGDADDYKOOL should easily put away rivals this afternoon in their respective races at five and 10 furlongs as they prepare for major grade-one events in the last quarter of the season. Having lost his first race in five starts...
SPARKLE DIAMOND, the most talked-about horse in training at Caymanas Park, starts his race against time this afternoon to meet the conditions for what could be the fifth and last running of the US$115,000 Diamond Mile on November 9. Having made a...
ANTHONY Nunes’ FAYROUZ ran somewhat out of character last time out, disputing the lead with UNCLE VINNIE at a mile when both were beaten by out-of-class DYSFUNCTIONAL on July 10, a race which should be thrown out the window by handicappers hunting...
CHACE THE GREAT, PATRIARCH and ANOTHER VIGOROUS, all deemed to have underperformed behind 25-1 upsetter, EXHILARATE, two and a half weeks ago at five furlongs straight, makes for an interesting rematch on the round course, going five and a half, in...
THE biggest indicator yet, that all might not be well with Triple Crown aspirant, SUPREME SOUL, was published in the Track and Pools form book, a bookmaker’s advertisement, offering odds on this afternoon’s St Leger, but with a rider, only if...
NOT even the 11lb she will give up in this afternoon’s fifth race should stop SHE’S A MANEATER from flogging BIGDADDYKOOL at seven and a half furlongs. However, much railbird excitement surrounds the circumstances under which the duo renews rivalry...
MY SUPER GIRL fought off MY SISTER from the top of the straight, finding extra a half-furlong out, to pull away in yesterday’s overnight allowance at five and a half furlongs, registering back-to-back wins for jockey Oneil Mullings and trainer...
SEISHIHAN Tony Robinson has described the grand championship fight between Jamaica combined martial arts team members Delano Francis and Akino Lindsayat Seido Karate’s recent 43rd anniversary tournament as “a great spectacle of point fighting at...
CHACE THE GREAT, November’s Caribbean Sprint winner, who finished ahead of WILL IN CHARGE and SHE’S A MANEATER when beaten by ANOTHER BULLET in April’s Lady Geeta Trophy, is down in class among open allowance runners this afternoon. At the...
JAMAICA’s quartet at last week’s International Sports Karate Association United States Open World Championships was one of the smallest female contingents ever, but still managed to reap nine medals – four gold, four silver and a bronze, from an...
JAMAICA combined martial arts team captain Ackeem Lawrence added icing to Jamaica’s cake, which already had 53 medals, at the International Sports Karate Association United States Open on Saturday, landing his second Night of Champions victory with...
SHE’S A MANEATER will be racing the clock in this afternoon’s six-furlong None Such Sprint, facing three of her stablemates, along with ANOTHER BULLET and MONEY MAGNET for company, after skipping last week’s Viceroy Trophy at nine furlongs, dodging...
MASTER Alvin Bernard, the tae kwon do coach behind Kenneth Edwards’ historic qualification for the London 2012 Olympics, on Thursday gave a thumbs up to the International Taekwondo Associations (International Taekwondo Federation) US Open Challenge...
THE old guard, Olympian Kenneth Edwards and multiworld medallist Nicholas Dusard yesterday reminded the young Turks of Jamaica’s combined martial arts team that ‘experience teaches wisdom’, both grabbing gold medals at yesterday’s inaugural...
JAMAICA’s successful staging of two martial arts world tournaments in four years, the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Cup in 2014 and the International Sport Karate Association (ISKA) Amateur Associations World Championships last...
FOR the second consecutive running, the favourite in the nine-furlong Viceroy Trophy left the gate sprawling, SHE’S A MANEATER last year and WILL IN CHARGE yesterday, finishing next to last behind Anthony Nunes’ BIGDADDYKOOL. From the moment WILL...
