JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists closed the 2025 International Sports Karate Association’s United States Open with 28 medals — nine gold, 13 silver and six bronze — at the July 17-19 tournament. Richard Stone led with a double-gold as Jamaica combined...
JASON MCKAY, founder of Jamaica’s combined martial arts team, yesterday said the annual International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, held at the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World, Orlando, Florida, is the single-biggest...
UNITED STATES-BRED RIDEALLDAYS’ impressive performance, dismissing fellow importees, non-winners of three races, in a decent 1:33.0 for seven and a half furlongs, June 21, signalled a horse going places, worthy of being backed in Saturday’s...
RICHARD STONE, the first fighter to win back-to-back Night of Champions International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) World Championship titles at the International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open, returns to the main tournament for...
JAMAICA’s MOST decorated martial artist, 30-year-old Waterhouse native Akino Lindsay, honoured last year in Vienna, Austria, by Europe’s International Sport Kick Boxing Association (ISKA) Amateur Members Association for winning eight individual...
MONEY MARKET, runner-up nine times from 24 starts, four consecutive since April, yesterday won his sixth lifetime race by outbattling stablemate SENSATIONAL MOVE at five furlongs straight, booking a ticket to what is bound to be another spell of...
AFTER EASY pickings in back-to–back races, beating $1.5-million claimers for a combined winning margin of nine lengths, SENSATIONAL MOVE is finally back among his equals, taking a shot at Sunday’s overnight-allowance out the straight course. Though...
LEGACY ISLE’s destruction of CHOCOMO, WALL STREET TRADER, DIGITAL ONE, and MAHOGANY, taking out the quartet in respective races to close consecutive victories on June 21, signals that the Mouttet Mile runner-up is back to his best. Caught at the...
I DREAM AGAIN, a June foal who Derrick Smith gifted himself as an 80th birthday present, yesterday handed the former member of parliament and owner of 2015 Jamaica Derby winner, Seeking My Dream, his “most pleasing classic win”, a length-and-three-...
BURNING HEDGE’s 1000 Guineas performance, a five and three-quarter length win in 1:41.3, booked a classic Battle of the Sexes for Sunday’s Jamaica St Leger at 10 furlongs, tackling colts, SENSATIONAL SOUL and BOB THE BUILDER, who battled out the...
THE JURY is still out on American mare DESERT OF MALIBU’s next-to-last finish, off a five-month lay-up, eased by Omar Walker after playing rabbit for local-bred stablemate ATOMICA, in last month’s Seeking My Dream at seven and a half furlongs....
GIRVANO and IMMEASURABLE JOY yesterday delivered what the form lines predicted, heart-stopping, come-from-behind victories in their respective divisions of the Hubert Bartley Memorial, reminiscent of the finishes the man himself would have conjured...
UNITED States-bred GIRVANO and imported-in-utero IMMEASURABLE JOY could land their respective divisions of Sunday’s seven-furlong Hubert Bartley Memorial at contrasting odds. GIRVANO appears a turnkey winner for division one, making rapid headway...
KHALEESI gets a favourable reduction in journey and a five-pound break at the scale to replicate her Portmore form in Saturday’s fillies-only Good Prospect Trophy at six and a half furlongs. Sent off at 17-1 in the Portmore Guineas prep at seven...
GARY SUBRATIE summoning claiming rider Emelio McLean aboard DIGITAL ONE for Saturday’s SVL 24th Anniversary Trophy could prove a masterstroke for the four-year-old American filly in her expected battle with fellow United States-bred LEGACY ISLE,...
JOHN ISSA created local backgammon history at Jamaica Inn Foundation’s open last weekend, going unbeaten in 15 consecutive games over two nights on the way to becoming the youngest-ever dual champion of the eight-year tournament. Issa, 17, not only...
NATURALISED AMERICAN four-year-old FUNCAANDUN yesterday reminded ATOMICA who’s Horse of the Year, turning tables on the ageing local champion mare with a convincing topweight victory in the Mark My Word Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. With...
ATOMICA’s BRAVE second behind an unbeatable COMMANDANT in last month’s Seeking My Dream Trophy marked her fifth consecutive run-in with United States-bred runners since turning back fellow local-bred, RUN JULIE RUN, in November’s Jamaica Cup....
FEARLESS FORCE playing second fiddle in the Labour Day Trophy did stablemate MAJOR DANGER no good, a gamble spoiled by INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD, who rallied under strong handling from Reyan Lewis to win by a neck in a driving finish. Delroy Beharie,...
MITTA ROUSSEAU, who rallied from 4-6 down to beat Luke Roberts 9-7 in last year’s thrilling finale of Jamaica Inn Foundation’s seventh annual backgammon tournament, won’t be around to defend his title this weekend but has given his blessings to “...
SENSATIONAL SOUL split LOCKDOWN and I DREAM AGAIN a furlong and a half out before running down escapee BOB THE BUILDER to score a three-quarter length win in yesterday’s 2000 Guineas, handing Trinidadian owner Chevan Maharaj a sixth classic win in...
SENSATIONAL SOUL, who won last month’s Kingston with a bold rail run, pulling away from RUNAWAY STAR and STRONG MIND, should land Sunday’s 2000 Guineas title, which had escaped his brother, Toona Ciliata, denied by Triple Crown winner Supreme Soul...
DESERT OF MALIBU got a rude welcome-back off a five-month lay-up, dragged by COMMANDANT in the Seeking My Dream Trophy two weeks ago through terrifying splits which left the six-year-old mare sputtering in the stretch run. COMMANDANT, who has,...
REYAN LEWIS, 2023 champion rider, measured titleholder and leading jockey Raddesh Roman, aboard MAJOR DANGER, reeling in the tearaway leader as an angler would an exhausted catch, in a well-timed ride to land yesterday’s Labour Day Trophy by a neck...
CAUGHT AT the wire by UNSPUN in the Henry W Jaghai Trophy at six furlongs on May 3, UNBELIEVABLE FORCE should redeem herself in Saturday’s Millard Ziadie Memorial, going a half-furlong shorter, among overnight-allowance winners. Cruising into the...
