BOOTYLICIOUS and GET A PEPSI, running with the stands’ side track bias in their favour, yesterday won divisions one and two, respectively, of the Nigel B Nunes Memorial at five furlongs straight. BOOTYLICIOUS, drawn widest at post-position 10,...
ANOTHER Sandals Travel Advisors tournament scored what is teeing up to be a game-changing hole-in-one for local golf and Jamaica’s sports tourist industry. A group of 40 American golfers are set to participate in an October 2026 pro-am in Montego...
A TALE of two races appears to be the plot for Sunday’s divided Nigel B Nunes Memorial, division one seemingly a walkover for speedy BOOTYLICIOUS, who could not have wished a better draw, widest at post-position 10 with the track bias in her favour...
UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER, running at a local-bred weight of 110lb, should have the jump on her eight peers and space-holder BLUE VINYL in Saturday’s Philip Feanny Gold Cup at seven furlongs. In receipt of 16lb from topweight FUNCAANDUN...
UNITED States-bred UNSPUN ran INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD off his legs in yesterday’s Typewriter Trophy at seven and a half furlongs, foiling the 2024 St Leger winner’s attempt at winning a second overnight-allowance race since May after slumming in the...
HIGHLY fancied at odds of 2-1 in the Kenneth Mattis Memorial two weeks ago after galloping 1:06.1 for five and a half furlongs at exercise seven days prior, United States-bred UNSPUN ran smack into an old but quirky rival, local-bred MOJITO, who...
LOCKDOWN, THE Strikewhileitshot colt who chased BOB THE BUILDER and I DREAM AGAIN into the stretch run of the 2000 Guineas before being wiped out against the rail a half-furlong out by eventual winner, SENSATIONAL SOUL, should use class and...
UNBEATEN IN his last four races, a record of five wins from six starts, United States-bred RIDEALLDAY returns to sprinting in Saturday’s open allowance at five and a half furlongs after posting three consecutive middle-distance victories. Among a...
MOJITO, the horse who promised much, crowned champion two-year-old in 2022 and unbeaten in five starts after winning the 2023 Guineas by 12 lengths, yesterday won his third race in 10 months, yet another overnight-allowance victory, but impressive...
HAVING spent four months in open allowance, a total of three races, including second- and third-place finishes behind grade-one horses, SHEER DELIGHT has served the mandatory three-month jail time, earning parole to overnight allowance, facing 11...
AFTER KICKING himself for an unwarranted change of equipment in the July 26 She’s A Maneater Trophy, TIZ TOK’s worst performance in six starts, title-chasing trainer Anthony Nunes has flung the blinkers far away from the United States-bred horse...
SPORTS TOURISM got a big boost last week with news out of the 11th Sandals Latin American Travel Advisors Golf Tournament of a spin-off set for November 21-26, a Jamaican-inspired Latin American all-female match, set to attract top Argentine...
JAMAICA’s bronze medal won in the 200-metre Major Mixed Final at the fourth Bahamas Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, August 30-31, has sparked a female run on the sport, which debuted locally at Port Royal in late May. Denise Romero-Williams, who...
BLACK Bombshell (Northern Giant-Buyabook), a $4.5-million sale-topper at the 2019 Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association’s Yearling Sale, and retired after earning a measly $39,950 from four starts, yesterday rewarded Trinidadian owner Chevan...
SUNDAY’s Winston Griffiths Classic, a nine-and-a-half furlong event designated as Grade II for three-year–olds, a line-up of mainly non-winners of three races, gets its status from an inflated purse, $3.75 million. A sort of post-derby Governor’s...
CUT DOWN by fellow American FUNCAANDUN being struck 24 times by Robert Halledeen while under a hand-ride from Raddesh Roman abiding to the whip rules, DESERT OF MALIBU returns on Saturday to defend her None Such Sprint title, two pounds lighter...
JAMAICA made a smashing international debut at the fourth Bahamas Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, claiming bronze in yesterday’s 200-metre Mixed Major Final at Goodman’s Bay in Nassau. Jamaica, who only started training for the international event in...
JAMAICA’s squad at the Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival yesterday got the approving nod of Canadian coach, Anthony Cao, who went out with the team for the first of two training sessions ahead of today’s start of competition at Goodman’s...
JAMAICA’s team to this weekend’s 2025 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival landed in Nassau yesterday morning, smartly attired in national colours, drawing admiration from airport to hotel and other competing teams based at Breezes Resorts...
MATURE CLAIMING rider, Romario Spencer, whose showboating antics aboard 16-1 shocker MATUSO recently had the outsider’s backers digging in heels as favourite OIL MACHINE soared forward, has Raddesh Roman to thank for what should be a winning ride...
THOUGH SPARINGLY raced, BARNABY might very well be the most improved horse out of last year’s Mouttet Mile, a point he could underline against FUNCAANDUN, winner of the US$250,000 race, when they meet in Saturday’s Distinctly Irish Trophy at nine...
CORPORAL Oshane Wilson, strongman on the mixed Dragon Boat team representing Jamaica at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, earned his place on performance in training, unlike his teammates, who...
MAMMA MIA, the mare who played lightweight rabbit for stablemate FUNCAANDUN, setting up the American to floor local champion ATOMICA in back-to-back grade-one races last season, before making all in an overnight allowance, returns to the scene of...
JAMAICA will be represented at the August 30-31 Bahamas International Dragon Boat Festival at Goodman’s Bay, Nassau, by a McKay Security-sponsored mixed team, comprising mainly martial artists from the combined martial arts team. Mixed-team winners...
BESET by Mouttet Mile runners since beating INSPIRE FORCE and NEO STAR in April, last year’s derby runner-up, RUN JULIE RUN, faces another tough American, RIDEALLDAY, in Saturday’s Poorlittlerichgirl at seven and a half furlongs. After avoiding...
