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Published:Sunday | June 29, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CHAMPION JOCKEY Raddesh Roman, who started yesterday with 54 winners, doubling second-place Shane Ellis, notched a fistful of wins, moving farther into the land of an unassailable lead, bar any unforeseen incident, in his quest for a second...

Published:Sunday | June 22, 2025 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LEGACY ISLE, the Florida invader, caught at the wire by naturalised American FUNCAANDUN in last December’s Mouttet MIle, yesterday served a six-month warning ahead of this year’s race, clocking an effortless 1:06.0 for five and a half furlongs in...

Published:Sunday | June 8, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

BURNING HEDGE, kicked away from LINGUIST a half-furlong out in yesterday’s 1000 Guineas, rebounding from her narrow loss to SOCIAL AVIATOR in the May 4 Portmore, signalling the start of a Triple Crown bid after being crowned champion juvenile last...

Published:Sunday | June 1, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

MOUTTET MILE runner-up LEGACY ISLE tracked BOOTYLICIOUS before dismissing the local-bred speedster in yesterday’s five-furlong straight Harlequin Cup, clocking a season-leading 57.2 for his second win from five starts locally. The first of two...

Published:Sunday | May 25, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RADDESH ROMAN maintained his unstoppable form, booting home a four-timer yesterday, closing the two-meet Labour Day weekend with seven winners including Philip Feanny’s American, UNBELIEVABLE FORCE, in the Millard Ziadie Memorial at five and a half...

Published:Sunday | May 18, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED COMMANDANT, who failed to finish the Ian Levy Cup won by fellow importee BARNABY, yesterday turned the tables on runner-up ATOMICA, proving something had gone amiss in the April 5 race when his hind legs splayed coming off the...

Published:Sunday | May 11, 2025 | 12:21 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

A.C.K STABLES’ United States-bred DIVINE FORCE yesterday turned the nine-furlong Yvonne Mattis Cup on its head with a gate-to-wire win at odds of 19-1, partnered by sparingly used Delroy Beharie, who must have made the sign of the cross at least...

Published:Sunday | May 4, 2025 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CHAMPION BUBBLER yesterday made three of the country’s quickest horses appear ordinary, keeping pace with MAMMA MIA, BOOTYLICIOUS and PACK PLAYS out the chute before surging inside the final furlong to complete a hat-trick of five-straight wins by...

Published:Sunday | April 27, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

OMAR WALKER, six-time top rider, rolled back the years at Caymanas Park yesterday, driving home United States-bred SHEER DELIGHT to victory by a head against local-bred RHYTHM BUZZ, denying reigning champion jock, Raddesh Roman, a hat trick of wins...

Published:Sunday | April 20, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

PACK PLAYS yesterday unveiled the speed he displayed in December’s Mouttet Mile and January’s Eileen Cliggott Trophy, dismissing LEGACY ISLE’s challenge coming off the home turn to win the Saint Cecelia Cup at six and a half furlongs ahead of fast-...

Published:Sunday | April 6, 2025 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

AMERICANS IMPORTED specifically for last year’s Mouttet Mile yesterday continued their dominance of top-class races, BARNABY producing a storming last-furlong finish to nail two-time Horse of the Year ATOMICA at the wire in the Ian Levy Cup at...

Published:Sunday | March 30, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED DIGITAL ONE yesterday franked her terrific 1:06.0 clocking at five and a half furlongs three weeks ago, completing a hat trick of wins with victory in the five-furlong Gregory Park Sprint Trophy on Grooms’ Association Day....

Published:Sunday | March 23, 2025 | 9:42 PMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

COMMANDANT, third on debut as a foreign invader in December’s Grade One US$250,000 Mouttet Mile, yesterday won his second straight race, slamming open-allowance runners by five lengths on the way to clocking a fast 1:24.2 at seven furlongs in the...

Published:Sunday | March 9, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

QUIETLY FANCIED at odds of 9-2, Gary Subratie’s American four-year-old filly, DIGITAL ONE, yesterday capitalised on CALIFORNIA CROWN and BOOTYLICIOUS’ speed duel to score a come-from-behind five-length win with Dane Dawkins in the SVREL 8th...

Published:Sunday | March 2, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

LAKELAND FARMS closed yesterday’s nine-race card with a stinging double, IMMEASURABLE JOY’s storming run at odds of 6-1 with Tevin Foster and CHAMPION BUBBLER’s stunning reversal of form, landing the five-furlong straight Mabrouk Sprint as a 10-1...

Published:Sunday | February 23, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED BARNABY overpowered a game but used-up ATOMICA, pulling away from the six-year-old mare a half-furlong out to land yesterday’s fast-run Chairman’s Trophy by three and a half lengths, closing a two-timer for trainer Anthony Nunes...

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 10:22 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED INSPIRE FORCE reversed his miserly form with a last-furlong burst of speed to power past rivals in yesterday’s James B Dawes Memorial at odds of 8-1 with champion jockey Raddesh Roman for trainer Philip Feanny and A.C.K Stables....

Published:Monday | February 17, 2025 | 9:41 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

GET A PEPSI stunned at 17-1 in division one and MAMMA MIA delivered as an even-money favourite should, both scoring gate-to-wire victories in yesterday’s divided Allan E ‘Billy’ Williams Memorial for overnight-allowance winners at seven furlongs....

Published:Monday | February 3, 2025 | 5:14 PMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

CALIFORNIA CROWN, last year’s 2000 Guineas winner, did everything right as a 1-2 favourite should, going gate-to-wire in yesterday’s Trevor ‘Slicer’ Simpson Trophy, clocking 1:00.2 at five furlongs round, registering a two-and-a-half length win...

Published:Sunday | January 26, 2025 | 12:17 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

PACK PLAYS yesterday reproduced his Mouttet Mile speed to dismantle top-class rivals in the Eileen Cliggott Memorial at six-and-a-half furlongs. Sent off as the 7-5 favourite, the four-year-old American, who led December’s Mouttet Mile, turning for...

Published:Sunday | January 19, 2025 | 12:15 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

BENSON YESTERDAY caught rivals flat-footed in his first race among overnight-allowance company, making all at odds of 5-1 in the George HoSang Trophy at six furlongs. Debuting at the level in an attempt at back-to-back victories following his gate-...

Published:Sunday | January 12, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

RICHARD AZAN’S MS CHERRY easily won yesterday’s OTB Appreciation Day Trophy at seven furlongs, taking over from QUEEN OF SOUL approaching the half-mile marker, needing only to be pushed out by Panamanian Ismael Velasquez for a two-and-three-quarter...

Published:Sunday | December 8, 2024 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

TEARS FLOWED in the winner’s enclosure at Caymanas Park yesterday as champion trainer Jason DaCosta’s local-based American, FUNCAANDUN, outbattled Gulfstream Park invader, LEGACY ISLE, to win the US$250,000 Mouttet Mile by a half-length. Ridden by...

Published:Sunday | December 1, 2024 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED UNSPUN ran on from fifth position entering the straight to overhaul 8-1 outsider BURNING HEDGE in yesterday’s Mr Sensational for two-year-old winners at seven furlongs, bagging the $2 million BGLC-TOBA Millionaires Series bonus....

Published:Sunday | November 24, 2024 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters - Gleaner Writer

DANE DAWKINS, champion jockey 2022, and title-chasing Tevin Foster each rode two-timers to share honours on yesterday’s 10-race card. Dawkins first rallied 7-2 chance EL RAPIDO to a dead-heat against leading rider Raddesh Roman astride 4-5...

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