WATCH ST LEGER DRAW – LIVE (JUNE 28) ON QUICKGALLOP.COM
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The draw for the 96th running of the Jamaica St Leger (10-furlongs) for three-year-old horses scheduled for Saturday, July 2, 2022, takes place today, Tuesday, June 27, at Caymanas Park. The draw time is 2:00 pm. To watch the St Leger draw, press the WATCH LIVE button at the top of the […]
THE ASSESSMENT: DUKE REAFFIRMS HIS STATUS AS THE TOP SPRINTER
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The following is THE QUICK GALLOPER’S assessment of the 5 ½ furlong – Supreme Ventures Limited 21st Anniversary Trophy, a three-year-old and upwards Open Allowance | Graded Stakes call run on Saturday, June 25, 2022. The assessment is done in the finishing order of the seven competing horses. FIRST: Duke – Benefitted […]
WATCH NIPSTER WIN THE 2020 JAMAICA ST LEGER CLASSIC
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The 2022 running of the Jamaica St Leger takes place on Saturday, July 2, at Caymanas Park. Quickgallop.com refreshes the memory of its readers with a video replay of the 2020 St Leger when Nipster, trained by Gary Subratie, ridden by Linton Steadman and owned by Michros demonstrated his true class and […]
SELECTED GALLOPS | EXERCISE – FOR MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022
HORSE EQUIP. WORK DIST. TIME COMM. ARTESIA - Trotted BEST DAUGHTER EVER - Cantered/Strode 7F 1:39.3 BILLY WHIZZ - Cantered (WP) FLY MESSENGER FLY B Cantered/Galloped 4F 0:48.3 IANZHA LINKS - Cantered (WP) JORDON REIGN'S - Cantered (WP) JOSH B Cantered/Galloped 5F 1:02.1 LUKSOL B Cantered/Galloped 4F 0:48.0 LURE OF LUCY - Cantered/Galloped 4F 0:49.1 […]
THE HISTORY OF THE ST LEGER – JAMAICA AND ENGLAND
BRITAIN The St Leger was the brainchild of Major‐General Anthony St Leger, an Irishman who had settled near Doncaster having married a Yorkshire woman. He had been MP for Grimsby two years before he came up with the idea of a race over two miles on Cantley Common. The Classic was originally described only as […]
EASY TO WATCH REPLAYS FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2022
FIRST RACE Winner Miss Linda Wray 5-2 JOCKEY Samantha Fletcher TRAINER Joseph Thomas DISTANCE 7 furlongs MARGINS 3 ½ by 6 ½ SPLITS 23.4 x 47.4 x 1:14.3 TIME 1:30.1 ============================================================================== SECOND RACE Winner Blue Seas 1-2 JOCKEY Omar Simpson TRAINER Michael Marlowe DISTANCE 4 ½ furlongs 900 metres MARGINS 3 by 1 ¾ SPLITS […]
EASY TO WATCH REPLAYS FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2022
FIRST RACE Winner Zion 6-5 JOCKEY Phillip Parchment TRAINER Marlon Anderson DISTANCE One mile 1,600 metres MARGINS 1 ½ by 3 SPLITS 24.2 x 47.1 x 1:13.3 TIME 1:43.0 =================================================================================== SECOND RACE Winner Duke of Springs 8-5 JOCKEY Phillip Parchment TRAINER Tensang Chung DISTANCE 6 ½ furlongs 1,300 metres MARGINS 2 ¾ by 7 ¼ […]
WATCH CALCULUS WIN THE 2021 CLASSIC JAMAICA ST LEGER
THE THREE-YEAR-OLD RACES – SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2022
KINGSTON, Jamaica – THE QUICK GALLOPER assesses the three – three-year-old races contested on Saturday, June 25, 2022. The first of these three-year-old encounters was the fifth – a non-two for locals and a maiden for foreigners. It was the US-bred Gilbert racing for the eighth occasion who earned a long overdue victory. The Philip […]
JOCKEY ALLEN MARAGH SPEAKS ABOUT HIS ST LEGER WINNERS, HERECOMESFUDGIE, MIRACLE MAN
KINGSTON, Jamaica - JOCKEY Allen “Bongo John” Maragh had the distinction of winning two Jamaica St Leger Classic races — in 2003 with Hercomesfudgie and in 2005 with Miracle Man — both horses owned by the late Joseph Duany. Trained by Philip Feanny, Herecomesfudgie came with a strong run-in deep stretch to beat stablemate A […]