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Published:Sunday | October 27, 2024 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s MCKAY Security combined martial arts have, so far, netted four of five possible gold medals after day one of the International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (AMA) World Championships in Vienna, Austria. ISKA...

Published:Sunday | October 27, 2024 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

SEAN MORRIS was true to form on Sunday at his old stomping ground of Negril Hills Golf Club, pairing with Romario Anglin to score 65, defending his Negril Charity Golf Tournament title won in 2022 playing alongside John Hayletts. Already invested...

Published:Sunday | October 20, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DANE DAWKINS, 2022 champion jockey, on winter break from Assiniboia Downs in Canada, reminded the local colony of his skills by notching a three-timer yesterday, including a searing run with 7-1 outsider RAINSVILLE to nail 1-2 favourite RUN JULIE...

Published:Sunday | October 13, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

TEVIN FOSTER blanked rival Raddesh Roman with a four-timer on yesterday’s 10-race card, moving to 108 winners, four wins clear, after starting the day locked on 104 in their battle atop the jockeys’ standings. Foster enjoyed winners on either half...

Published:Sunday | October 6, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

FUNCAANDUN SHOT past fellow American WALL STREET TRADER three furlongs out in yesterday’s Philip Feanny Gold Cup, beating late-closing stablemate IS THAT A FACT by three-quarter length, securing a win-and-you-are-in event for December’s US$250,000...

Published:Sunday | September 29, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RADDESH ROMAN stole the show with a hat trick yesterday in his battle with Tevin Foster, notching eight unanswered winners in two racemeets, tying his rival on 98 wins atop the jockeys’ standings. Similar to last Saturday when he rode four...

Published:Sunday | September 22, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RADDESH ROMAN dominated yesterday’s nine-race card with a five-timer, sweeping the last four events, including the seven-furlong Thunderbird with MAJOR DANGER, reducing Tevin Foster’s lead atop the jockeys’ standings to two winners in one fell...

Published:Sunday | September 15, 2024 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DISPLAYING HER 2023 form of five wins from as many starts – albeit disqualified on Mouttet Mile Day – five-year-old American mare DESERT OF MALIBU yesterday dismantled Jason DaCosta’s tag team of MADELYN’S SUNSHINE and IS THAT A FACT to complete a...

Published:Sunday | September 8, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

SENSATIONAL MOVE won yesterday’s overnight-allowance event as an out-of-class horse should, toying with United States-bred CHOCOMO and GENERATIONAL for the first three furlongs before sprinting clear to win the five-furlong straight sprint in a...

Published:Sunday | September 1, 2024 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MONEY MISER and BERN NOTICE upstaged Americans, DIGITAL ONE and PROVOCATIVA, who disappointed as howling favourites in divisions one and two, respectively, of yesterday’s O...

Published:Sunday | August 25, 2024 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JASON DACOSTA’S tag team yesterday pulled off a second relay job on ATOMICA, MAMMA MIA playing rabbit for six furlongs before United States-bred stablemate FUNCAANDUN pounced on the 2022 Jamaica Derby winner coming off the turn in the Distinctly...

Published:Sunday | August 18, 2024 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ATLANTIC CONVOY and FEARLESS SOUL upstaged established sprinters with come-from-behind wins in yesterday’s divided six-furlong feature, the Arthur Jones Memorial for overnight-allowance runners. Set up by longshot no-hopers, POSING ALREADY and A...

Published:Sunday | August 11, 2024 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MAHOGANY, 2022 GOLD Cup winner and last year’s runner-up, allowing winner SHE’S MY DESTINY 17lb, confirmed seven furlongs as his pet trip with an easy victory at the distance against open-allowance runners in yesterday’s Poorlittlerichgirl Trophy....

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ROBERT HALLEDEEN stole yesterday’s Jamaica Oaks with a measured ride aboard Thornbird Stakes winner BANADURA, ignoring leader SIPPIN ON SUNSHINE for the first half of the 10-furlong event before injecting enough speed to run the field off its legs...

Published:Sunday | August 4, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

TRAINER JASON DaCosta need not reinvent the wheel in Tuesday’s Jamaica Derby after INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD’s workmanlike victory in last month’s 10-furlong St Leger. The derby being two furlongs longer, it would appear that Anthony Nunes’ St Leger...

Published:Sunday | July 28, 2024 | 12:22 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

FUNCAANDUN and stablemate MAMMA MIA ganged up on ATOMICA, using their 25lb advantages to tag-team the 2022 Jamaica Derby winner in yesterday’s She’s A Maneater Trophy at a mile, completing a 1-2 finish for champion trainer Jason DaCosta. MAMMA MIA...

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’s MARTIAL artists are aiming at a pre-COVID medal haul when they face the world’s best fighters at the July 4-6 International Sports Karate Association (ISKA) United States Open at the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. Returning...

Published:Sunday | June 30, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LEADING RIDER Tevin Foster twice survived stewards’ enquiries yesterday, plus an objection from title-chasing rival, Raddesh Roman, to boot home a three-timer, extending his lead to 10 atop the jockeys’ standings at Caymanas Park. Foster, who...

Published:Sunday | June 23, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED I AM FRED made all with champion jockey Reyan Lewis in yesterday’s SVL 23rd Anniversary Trophy feature race, confirming his return to the form he displayed when winning four consecutive top-class events between March and April...

Published:Sunday | June 16, 2024 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RHYTHM BUZZ split the battling pair of FUNCAANDUN and ABILITY a furlong out to upstage the favourites, at odds of 5-2, with champion jockey Reyan Lewis in yesterday’s Mark My Word Trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards. Sired by Into Mischief’s 2016...

Published:Sunday | June 9, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

IMPORTED COLT EASY AS A. B. C. yesterday maintained his turnaround in form, stalking rivals from sixth down the backstretch before pouncing three wide off the turn to win the Liu Chie Poo Trophy at seven and a half furlongs, pulling off by four and...

Published:Sunday | June 2, 2024 | 12:20 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RUN JULIE RUN did exactly what was asked of her, demolishing rivals by four and three-quarter lengths in yesterday’s 1000 Guineas. Tracking Thornbird Stakes winner BANADURA down the backstretch, RUN JULIE RUN joined the speedster at the top of the...

Published:Sunday | May 26, 2024 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

ABILITY, LAST year’s derby winner and Mouttet Mile runner-up, closed along the rail inside the final half-furlong to outfinish United States-bred I AM FRED in a head-bob for Saturday’s I’msatisfied Trophy at six furlongs. Closing a three-timer for...

Published:Sunday | May 19, 2024 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MAHOGANY AND MAMMA MIA locked horns for five and a half furlongs, allowing 5-1 chance FURTHER AND BEYOND to pounce on a collapsing pace with title-chasing Raddesh Roman in yesterday’s Seeking My Dream Trophy. Outsped behind head-turning splits of...

Published:Sunday | May 12, 2024 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

TITLE-CHASING RADDESH Roman dominated yesterday’s 10-race card, booting home five winners including 11-1 outsider JUSTIN BIDEN for trainer Lawrence Freemantle in the closing event for the Yvonne Mattis Cup at nine furlongs. Starting the afternoon...

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