Masterful Omar Walker brings home Harry’s Train in third Saturday race

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Six-time champion jockey Omar Walker was at his masterful best in bringing home the imported filly Harry’s Train in the third race on the Saturday programme at Caymanas Park. Walker watched from second place as Kalahari (Reyan Lewis) set off with intent in the Restricted Allowance 111 event for four-year-olds non-winners of […]

Quick double for Nelson, Nunes as Above and Beyond takes second without a fuss

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jockey Dane Nelson and trainer Anthony Nunes continued their unstoppable winning march as the two just combined to win the second of 10 races on the Saturday card currently taking place at Caymanas Park. This time it was the two-year-old Above and Beyond who easily won a maiden special weight contest run […]

Glorious opportunity for Sentient

KINGSTON, Jamaica - More than half of the field of 16 have sound chances of taking home the major share of the $930,000 purse on offer in the Restricted Stakes call for the Seymour “Foggy” Mullings Memorial Trophy tomorrow at Caymanas Park. The event is to be contested for over a mile. Below is a […]

Apprentice Marshall Porter starts racing career with a bang

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Marshall Porter, one of the 19 licenced apprentices who graduated from the Jamaica Racing Commission Jockeys’ Training School last month, couldn’t have asked for a better start to his career as he became the first from the batch to shed his maiden tag. Porter had two wins on his first day of […]

Time is ripe for foreigner Crafty and Ready

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Seven two year olds face Mr Starter in this year’s renewal of the Dye Job Sprint. This Restricted Stakes event carries a total purse of $980,000 and is a contest over a distance of six furlongs (1,200 metres). Below is the race analysis with the horses placed in post-position order. MY TIME […]

Exhilarate at her best over seven furlongs

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Exhilarate an 11-1 chance showed devastating form running in mud and water to win the Gladiator Trophy main event of the 10-race card at Caymanas Park on Saturday, December 7. Jockey Aaron Chatrie, who was aboard the speedy chestnut filly when she finished third behind, She’s A Maneater, in a Stakes race […]

St Lucia’s first race day features US$150,000 Pitons Cup

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Royal Saint Lucia Turf Club today (December 13) kicks off an ambitious effort to bring international horse racing to the Caribbean island with a five-race programme today (December 13) featuring the US$150,000 Pitons Cup. The race, a “buy-a-slot” event like the Pegasus World Cup Invitational Stakes (G1) has drawn interest from […]