Hot, hot, hot Chris Mamdeen takes 1st race on mid-week card with 9-1 Resurgence
KINGSTON, Jamaica – There is simply no stopping apprentice Christopher Mamdeen these days. The young man after riding a triple on Saturday (May 11, 2019) started with a bang on the mid-week 10-race card at Caymanas Park moments ago with a come from behind victory on the Ian Parsard trained four-year-old grey gelding, Resurgence. Resurgence […]
First race on mid-week card starts at 12:40 pm – WATCH LIVE on Quickgallop.com
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The mid-week 10-race card at Caymanas Park today, Wednesday, May 15 gets underway with the running of the first event scheduled to begin at 12:40 pm. The feature on the programme is the third race – the Simply Magic Cup – a Restricted Allowance event for local three-year-olds – non winners of […]
Straight fight between foreigners as Stranger Danger faces Hilly’s Halo
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The obviously talented Americans, Stranger Danger and Hilly’s Halo face off in what is expected to be a thrilling and mouth-watering clash on tomorrow’s 10-race card at Caymanas Park. The two foreigners lock horns in a 6 ½ furlongs (1,300 metres), Open Allowance contest. Quickgallop.com looks at the chances of the six […]
Maximum Security rider banned 15 days for Derby interference
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Jockey Luis Saez was suspended for 15 days for failing to control Maximum Security and causing interference that resulted in the horse's historic disqualification as the Kentucky Derby winner. The decision by the Kentucky stewards was announced by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission. Saez was cited for failing to "make the […]
Stronach Group at centre of best and worst of horse racing
The Stronach Group isn't well known outside horse racing. In the public eye, the big players are the likes of recent Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify, trainer Bob Baffert and legendary horses Secretariat and Seattle Slew. But few — if any — have had a bigger impact on the sport of late than […]
Predictions/Odds now up on Quickgallop.com
The Predictions/Odds for the 10 races races on Wednesday next (May 15) at Caymanas Park are now up on Quickgallop.com. Simply press the Predictions/Odds button at the top of the hope page and do your assesments of the horses.
RACE DAY VERDICT (11-05-2019) - Spare a thought for jockey Phillip Parchment, as ‘prentos’ continue to dominate
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jockey Phillip Parchment has been paying his dues ay Caymanas Park for a while now. The 38-year-old Parchment has scraped around, diligently working horses in the mornings without getting many winning rides on race days. Parchment over the last two to three years has forged an association with champion trainer Wayne DaCosta […]
USA: As Preakness approaches, strike at Pimlico possibly averted
BALTIMORE (AP) — A strike by workers at Pimlico Race Course may have been averted just before the running of this year's Preakness Stakes. The Baltimore Sun reports the Maryland Jockey Club and its employees at Pimlico Race Course and other tracks agreed "in principle" to a new employment contract on Friday. The Preakness takes […]
AFTER KENTUCKY DERBY DQ - No call in sports is above being picked apart
The replays stream onto our sets in high-definition on a practically endless loop, with no detail too small, or too big, to ignore: fingernails nicking basketballs, horses veering out of line, baseball gloves grazing runners as they slide into second. About the only irrefutable evidence to come from any of it is that nobody agrees […]
Amid turmoil, US horse racing avoided catastrophe at the Kentucky Derby
Horse racing was one step away from disaster. Amid all the turmoil the beleaguered sport is facing during Triple Crown season, it might've caught a break at the Kentucky Derby. When Maximum Security drifted to his right in the final turn, his back legs almost became entangled with those of War of Will behind him. […]