CHAMPION TRAINER Jason DaCosta and jockey Reyan Lewis made up for uncharacteristically quiet back-to-back days of racing last weekend by collectively winning a half of yesterday’s 10-race card. Lewis booted home his first career five-timer, combing...
THERE’S A saying in racing: Weight stops trains. Well, one of racing’s oldest adages was again proven yesterday, local mare SHE’S MY DESTINY slamming the brake on a seemingly runaway train, United States-bred RUNAWAY ALGO, derailing the American’s...
RADDESH ROMAN’S front-running tactics aboard Oral Hayden’s ESSENTIAL QUALITY from stall one, followed by a crippling half-mile move, left classic-placed stablemates PRINCESS SHARON and MONEY MISER gasping three furlongs out in a 30-1 upset of...
RUNAWAY ALGO yesterday cemented his status as the country’s top-rated horse. Carrying topweight 126lb at a mile, he demolished fellow United States-bred I AM FRED by eight lengths to clock 1:38.0 in the She’s A Maneater Trophy. Raddesh Roman...
LEADING RIDER Reyan Lewis, and champion trainer, Jason DaCosta, rebounded from THALITA’s Jamaica Derby disappointment by landing the two biggest purses on yesterday’s nine-race card with grade-one speedster SHE’S MY DESTINY and OUTBIDDDER, the $6.1...
GUINEAS-WINNER MAMMA MIA added the Jamaica Oaks to her résumé in impressive fashion yesterday, making every leap a winning one after bounding out the gate like a scared hare with Philip Parchment. Quickly claiming the rail, heading into the...
UNITED STATES-BRED RUNAWAY ALGO frolicked on an unmolested lead with 115lb before sprinting clear of fellow American I AM FRED in the stretch run to easily win yesterday’s Eros Trophy at seven furlongs for trainer Dale Murphy and owner Lanmark Farm...
YESTERDAY’S RESUMPTION of live racing at Caymanas Park was a case of as-you-were on the track with champion trainer Jason DaCosta, his main owner Carlton Watson, and stable rider Reyan Lewis, closing the six-race card in style. Hobbled by a...
LAST WEEK’s ST Leger-winning combination of champion owner Carlton Watson, last year’s top trainer, Jason DaCosta, and red-hot jockey, Reyan Lewis, struck again yesterday with United States-bred IS THAT A FACT, who made all at 4-1 to upstage 3-5...
PORTMORE TRIAL Stakes winner, THALITA, got the perfect pace to stalk, capitalising on a woeful run from howling favourite, MOJITO, to upset rivals in yesterday’s Jamaica St Leger, winning by six lengths at odds of 9-1. Rebounding from having to...
REYAN LEWIS maintained his hot streak yesterday, booting home four consecutive winners on the 10-race card, including a hat trick for Jason DaCosta, extending their respective dominance atop the jockeys’ and trainers’ standings at Caymanas Park....
RUNAWAY ALGO toyed with DUKE down the backstretch before pulling away with Raddesh Roman stroking the United States-bred runner’s mane from a furlong out in yesterday’s Thunderbird Trophy, clocking 1:24.3 at seven furlongs. Putting aside his recent...
PERFECT BREW swooped down on tearaway leader FURTHER AND BEYOND a furlong out before pulling off for a convincing victory, landing yesterday’s Alsafra Trophy in 1:38.0, completing a three-timer for champion jockey Dane Dawkins. FURTHER AND BEYOND,...
PHILIP PARCHMENT’s knack of handing champion owner Carlton Watson his first winners in major races continued yesterday when he rallied 6-1 chance MAMMA MIA to outbattle stablemate and 1-5 favourite, THALITA, also owned by Watson, to land the 1000...
EMPEROROFTHECATS, running with Richard Henry’s eight-pound claim and five-furlong straight track bias in his favour on the faster stands’ side, made every post a winning one with 112lb, relegating howling favourite RUNAWAY ALGO to fourth in...
RUNAWAY ALGO destroyed open-allowance runners in yesterday’s Seeking My Dream, clocking a blistering 1:30.4 for seven and a half furlongs, the exact time he posted at the distance last September. The writing was on the wall from the off with...
MINIATURE MAN easily took control of yesterday’s Yvonne Mattis Cup three and a half furlongs out, peeling off from D HEAD CORNERSTONE, DADDY JONES, BIG BIG DADDY and STOMP THE RHYTHM, who afterwards chased the out-of-class runner to the wire with...
THALITA RAN past stablemate MAMMA MIA and 1-2 favourite BOOTYLICIOUS a furlong and a quarter out in Portmore, handing champion trainer Jason DaCosta the fourth of five winners on yesterday’s 10-race card. A stewards’ enquiry into Philip Parchment’s...
BLUE VINYL hardly broke a sweat, toying with I REALISE from a half-mile out before racing clear in the stretch run under a hand ride from Javaniel Patterson, notching another facile victory against overnight-allowance runners yesterday. Reporting...
UNITED STATES-BRED I AM FRED pounced on MAHOGANY two and half furlongs out, quickening off the home turn, to win his third consecutive race, clocking an impressive 1:38.2 in yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy. Reporting razor-sharp off a fast-time win...
BLUE VINYL called on his proven class to wrest the lead from old rival BRINKS coming off the home turn in yesterday’s Temperence Oaks Trophy, winning by four and a quarter lengths, though continuously drifting to the stands’ side. Reporting for the...
BOOTYLICIOUS rode MAMMA MIA’s girth strap into the lane and attacked off the turn in a five-furlong split of 58.2 with Reyan Lewis to power home by three lengths in yesterday’s Thornbird Stakes. MAMMA MIA, who tried stealing the seven-furlong...
BEATEN BY younger and superior United States-bred runners in his last two races, six-year-old MONEY MONSTER yesterday capitalised on their absence to easily stamp his class on rivals in the King’s Plate at seven and a half furlongs. EAGLE ONE, the...
EMPEROROFTHECATS swooped down three-wide off the home turn, going past 4-5 favourite GOD OF LOVE, before reeling in YELLOWSTONE to notch his second straight win yesterday, justifying trainer Carl Anderson’s decision to stick with claiming riders....
CHAMPION JOCKEY Dane Dawkins cruised into the lane aboard Patrick Lynch’s Canada-bred ATLANTIC CONVOY, dismissed ANONYMOUS’ challenge a furlong and a half out, proving by far the best in yesterday’s Milligram Trophy at seven and a half furlongs....
