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Stories by Ainsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

Published:Tuesday | October 21, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER yesterday climbed a further $764,000 up the Mouttet Mile qualification ladder with victory over fellow American, TIZ TOK, in yesterday’s Viceroy Trophy at a mile. Already sitting 10th among horses based in...

Published:Monday | October 20, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred DOTHRAKI served notice on grade-one sprinters with an eye-catching debut victory at Caymanas Park yesterday, dismissing fellow American INCREDIBLE JO coming off the home turn, notching a length-and-quarter victory ahead of late-...

Published:Saturday | October 18, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SUPERNATURAL POWER’S first brush with grade-one horses, two Saturday’s ago in the seven-furlong Gold Cup, took her within a length and a quarter of Mouttet Mile runner-up, LEGACY ISLE, with whom she almost sat level at the scale. Added to her leap...

Published:Friday | October 17, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A Game of Thrones will be played out in Sunday’s overnight allowance between Americans INCREDIBLE JO and DOTHRAKI, yes, DOTHRAKI, a former Bob Baffert runner named after the fictional, nomadic horse-riding people in HBO’s wildly successful Game of...

Published:Thursday | October 16, 2025 | 12:16 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

IS THAT A FACT has been sharpened at exercise and looks ready to blow away overnight-allowance rivals at a mile in Saturday’s Errol Subratie Memorial. Jason DaCosta’s flag-bearer in grade one last year, IS THAT A FACT beat ATOMICA in the Chairman’s...

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LIGHTWEIGHT SHARIC Bowen has become accustomed to gradual improvement throughout his martial arts journey, describing himself as a “late bloomer”. However, having won a bronze medal at his first International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur...

Published:Wednesday | October 15, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

COACHES AURANE Phoenix and Fabian Swaby are both high in confidence ahead of this evening’s Kingston and St Andrew Football Association Business House Challenge Cup final for the Raymond Quallo Memorial Trophy, starting at 7 p.m. at Constant Spring...

Published:Monday | October 13, 2025 | 12:10 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NICHOLAI REID, 32, knocked at the International Sports Kickboxing Association Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships annually until striking gold last year in Vienna, Austria, signalling a second successful season after winning...

Published:Sunday | October 12, 2025 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

NICHOLAS DUSARD has been the template on which the second generation of Jamaica’s successful combined martial arts team was built to dominate tatami (mat) events at the International Sport Kickboxing Association Amateur Members Association (ISKA...

Published:Saturday | October 11, 2025 | 12:08 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

RICHARD Stone’s teammate, Akino Lindsay, might be the poster boy of the International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships. However, Stone, the quiet giant of Jamaica’s combined martial arts...

Published:Friday | October 10, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AKINO Lindsay was the toast of last year’s International Sport Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World championships in Vienna, Austria, honoured by the organisation during the opening ceremony for his world-record...

Published:Thursday | October 9, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred UNSPUN and FEARLESS FORCE pack the finishing power to upstage Jason DaCosta’s local-bred speedsters, MAMMA MIA and CALIFORNIA CROWN, in Saturday’s I’msatisfied Trophy at six furlongs. MAMMA MIA and CALIFORNIA CROWN recorded...

Published:Wednesday | October 8, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

JAMAICA’S SIX-MAN team of martial artists to the 2025 International Sports Kickboxing Association’s Amateur Members Association (ISKA AMA) World Championships started filing out of the island this week, en route to Brisbane, Australia, aiming to...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:07 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

BOOTYLICIOUS and GET A PEPSI, running with the stands’ side track bias in their favour, yesterday won divisions one and two, respectively, of the Nigel B Nunes Memorial at five furlongs straight. BOOTYLICIOUS, drawn widest at post-position 10,...

Published:Monday | October 6, 2025 | 12:06 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

ANOTHER Sandals Travel Advisors tournament scored what is teeing up to be a game-changing hole-in-one for local golf and Jamaica’s sports tourist industry. A group of 40 American golfers are set to participate in an October 2026 pro-am in Montego...

Published:Friday | October 3, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

A TALE of two races appears to be the plot for Sunday’s divided Nigel B Nunes Memorial, division one seemingly a walkover for speedy BOOTYLICIOUS, who could not have wished a better draw, widest at post-position 10 with the track bias in her favour...

Published:Thursday | October 2, 2025 | 12:14 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED STATES-BRED SUPERNATURAL POWER, running at a local-bred weight of 110lb, should have the jump on her eight peers and space-holder BLUE VINYL in Saturday’s Philip Feanny Gold Cup at seven furlongs. In receipt of 16lb from topweight FUNCAANDUN...

Published:Monday | September 29, 2025 | 12:13 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNITED States-bred UNSPUN ran INTRESTNTIMESAHEAD off his legs in yesterday’s Typewriter Trophy at seven and a half furlongs, foiling the 2024 St Leger winner’s attempt at winning a second overnight-allowance race since May after slumming in the...

Published:Friday | September 26, 2025 | 12:09 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HIGHLY fancied at odds of 2-1 in the Kenneth Mattis Memorial two weeks ago after galloping 1:06.1 for five and a half furlongs at exercise seven days prior, United States-bred UNSPUN ran smack into an old but quirky rival, local-bred MOJITO, who...

Published:Thursday | September 25, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

LOCKDOWN, THE Strikewhileitshot colt who chased BOB THE BUILDER and I DREAM AGAIN into the stretch run of the 2000 Guineas before being wiped out against the rail a half-furlong out by eventual winner, SENSATIONAL SOUL, should use class and...

Published:Thursday | September 18, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

UNBEATEN IN his last four races, a record of five wins from six starts, United States-bred RIDEALLDAY returns to sprinting in Saturday’s open allowance at five and a half furlongs after posting three consecutive middle-distance victories. Among a...

Published:Monday | September 15, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

MOJITO, the horse who promised much, crowned champion two-year-old in 2022 and unbeaten in five starts after winning the 2023 Guineas by 12 lengths, yesterday won his third race in 10 months, yet another overnight-allowance victory, but impressive...

Published:Friday | September 12, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

HAVING spent four months in open allowance, a total of three races, including second- and third-place finishes behind grade-one horses, SHEER DELIGHT has served the mandatory three-month jail time, earning parole to overnight allowance, facing 11...

Published:Thursday | September 11, 2025 | 12:11 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

AFTER KICKING himself for an unwarranted change of equipment in the July 26 She’s A Maneater Trophy, TIZ TOK’s worst performance in six starts, title-chasing trainer Anthony Nunes has flung the blinkers far away from the United States-bred horse...

Published:Wednesday | September 10, 2025 | 12:12 AMAinsley Walters/Gleaner Writer

SPORTS TOURISM got a big boost last week with news out of the 11th Sandals Latin American Travel Advisors Golf Tournament of a spin-off set for November 21-26, a Jamaican-inspired Latin American all-female match, set to attract top Argentine...

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