APART from the distance of nine furlongs and 25 yards and a glaring 13lb swing in EAGLE ONE’s weight, there’s not hardly any difference between Saturday’s Legal Light Trophy and the King’s Plate at seven furlongs four weeks ago. Six of seven...
GARY Subratie’s one-month transformation of CALCULUS turned around two terrible runs in the Kingston and 2000 Guineas, resulting in a St Leger victory, which has propelled the Sensational Slam-Trinket Box colt to Jamaica Derby favourite. Subratie...
Ian Parsard’s 1000 Guineas winner and St Leger second runner-up, SHE’S A WONDER, appears headed to face colts and geldings in the $7.5 million Betmakers Jamaica Derby on Independence Day, Friday, August 6, as opposed to the fillies-only Jamaica...
AFTER picking their own pockets on last, forsaking a claiming rider for TREVOR’S CHOICE, who carried topweight 126lb against five-straight specialist SALVATION and losing by three-quarter length at the wire, redemption day has arrived for the...
HAVING decided to keep Dane Dawkins aboard MAHOGANY at 130lb, going six furlongs, while Jordan Barrett slips seven pounds, taking FATHER PATRICK down to 110, Ian Parsard will prove just how smart, or not, his chess move will be in Saturday’s...
EROY took over from HARRY’S TRAIN three furlongs out and turned back LEGALITY in the straight, reversing the form of his previous run, to score a two-length win in yesterday’s overnight allowance at nine furlongs and 25 yards. After meekly...
AFTER running his heart out in the seven-furlong Prince Consort Stakes, getting within a half-length of FURTHER AND BEYOND, turning the tables on CALCULUS who had beaten him in the shorter Sir Howard Stakes, BILLY WHIZZ’ inside draw and level...
TREVOR’S CHOICE tried to steal a march at six and a half furlongs on last but his 46-1 coup was quashed by NIPSTER, who mowed him down to land the Saint Cecelia Cup. Though he has had no luck at five furlongs straight, one mishap after another,...
EVERYTHING in the form book points to MINIATURE MAN winning Saturday’s Jamaica St Leger, unbeaten in three starts since stretched out past six furlongs, including a convincing 2000 Guineas victory over his two main rivals – NUCLEAR NOON and FURTHER...
EL PROFESOR dropped an 8-1 bomb in yesterday’s Awesome Power Trophy, a non-restricted overnight allowance, swooping down on EROY and DOUBLE CROWN, turning for home along the rail, before exploding for a three and three-quarter length victory at...
EROY finally gets a field he can dominate, a return to overnight allowance company, who he beat by 10 lengths in February, clocking 1:18.3 at six and a half furlongs. Reporting with 126lb in Monday’s Awesome Power Trophy at seven and a half should...
STABLEMATES PATRIARCH and GOD OF LOVE have the exacta locked in Saturday’s SVL 20th Anniversary Trophy with nary a horse in sight to separate them in the five-and-a-half furlong event for open allowance runners. The weight allotment of 126lb has...
IAN Parsard’s BIG JULE, imported in utero, yesterday announced himself as a Jamaica Derby contender, clocking 1:57.4 to land division two of the Mr Lover Lover Trophy, equalling the fastest time at nine furlongs and 25 yards this season. Bred...
TRAINER Ian Parsard has a hat-trick lined up for Monday’s 10-race card, starting with a penalty kick – MAHOGANY, the fastest middle-distance horse in the country – down in class among overnight allowance runners at six furlongs in the seventh. In...
HAVING improved leaps and bounds since fitted with the visor at the back end of last season, ONEOFAKIND has this year caught up with his classic peers, humbling the St Leger and Jamaica Derby winners, NIPSTER and KING ARTHUR, in back-to-back races...
AMBUSHED by 16-1 outsider EAGLE ONE in what was an anticipated rematch on May 25, United States-bred EXCESSIVE FORCE and imported-in utero DOUBLE CROWN lock horns at a mile in Saturday’s Alsafra Trophy with nothing to separate them in the nine-...
FATHER PATRICK chased DEEP BLUE SEA off the lead and ran away from EROY up the lane to easily win yesterday’s six-furlong Lady Geeta Trophy as the 7-5 favourite. Reunited with Oshane Nugent, with whom he won back-to-back races in December and...
TOPWEIGHT five-year-olds, DUKE and FATHER PATRICK, should duke it out in Monday’s six-furlong Lady Geeta Trophy - one enjoying his best days ever and the other indicating that a two-month lay-up might have been what the doctor ordered to restore...
IT’s really hard not to back the respective winter-book favourites, SHE’S A WONDER and FURTHER AND BEYOND, to prove their dominance, at level weight, against their peers in Saturday’s 1000 and 2000 Guineas classics. The last time SHE’S A WONDER...
SATURDAY’s closing event will be a sprinter’s paradise, non-winners of two races, going five and a half furlongs, SURE CURLIN and SUPER DUPER, the top contenders and drawn alongside each other. SURE CURLIN has 10 runs under her girth, the last...
DOUBLE CROWN returns off a four-month lay-up carrying topweight, but back among overnight allowance runners in Tuesday’s Labour Day Trophy, after dismissing classy ANOTHER AFFAIR at the level on January 23. Renewing rivalry with imported EXCESSIVE...
THE ‘Kingston’ might have been the last ‘major’ 2000 Guineas prep but the script for the colts-and-geldings classic won’t be finalised until after a pair of seven-furlong events set for this Saturday. Champion trainer Anthony Nunes, revelling in a...
Course-specialist ROJORN DI PILOT tracked early leader FORMAL GLADIATOR before taking charge of yesterday’s five-furlong straight overnight allowance event, beating late-charging RAS EMANUEL by two lengths. Always the horse to beat on back class...
ROJORN DI PILOT gets a plumb draw on the stands’ side in Monday’s overnight allowance at five furlongs straight, which should put him well clear entering the main track. It’s hard not to back course specialist ROJORN DI PILOT after his encouraging...
FURTHER AND BEYOND showed all the tell-tale signs of being a bit ring-rusty in the April 8 Prince Consort Stakes, lasting home by a short head from BILLY WHIZZ, who he allowed nine pounds, reporting off a three-month break for the seven-furlong...
