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Leading trainer Gary Subratie two runners, SENTIENT and CRIMSON, should dominate rivals in Saturday’s Bonnie Blue Flag trophy at nine furlongs and 25 yards at Caymanas Park. CRIMSON won in a fast time at the distance, 1:55.2, on New Year’s Day, but SENTIENT reports two classes lower than Boxing Day when he placed second behind his then much-improved stablemate, NIPSTER, at eight and a half furlongs. CRIMSON reports significantly lighter, getting 14lb from topweight SENTIENT, but the class difference, beating horses who have never won an overnight allowance race, tilts the balance in his ...

Back-to-form DOUBLE CROWN skipped non-winners-of-four to overpower the filly, ANOTHER AFFAIR, inside the last furlong and a half of Saturday's overnight allowance race at Caymamas Park. An easy winner among non-winners of three races on December 23, DOUBLE CROWN, third in last season's 2000 Guineas, broke sharply in the eight-and-a-half furlong event to keep ANOTHER AFFAIR honest down the backstretch. As expected, a match race ensued between the two four-year-olds, who peeled off from rivals and entered the straight abreast. Though under the whip from three furlongs out, DOUBLE CROWN proved s...

Super-fit JAMAI RAJA’s speed bursts since returning to open allowance company could pay off for the eight-year-old gelding in Saturday’s St Catherine Cup at six furlongs. Though having not won in two starts since upsetting overnight allowance runners at 24-1 in November,  JAMAI RAJA has twice been the closest horse at the home turn to lightning-fast MAHOGANY in back-to-back races. Going six and a half furlongs on December 12, it was JAMAI RAJA who took the fight to MAHOGANY after GOD OF LOVE offered no resistance when brushed off the lead. JAMAI RAJA chased MAHOGANY to almost the final f...

Nipster. NIPSTER, with jockey Robert Halledeen,  blew past MAHOGANY a furlong and a half out on Saturday to land the eight-and-a-half furlong Ian Levy Cup by seven lengths, laying a creditable claim to Horse of the Year honours. The St Leger winner and Jamaica Derby runner-up humbled 4-5 favourite, the Dane Dawkins-ridden MAHOGANY, whose stamina limitations were exposed near the end of the event, wilting into fourth place, relegated by SENTIENT and TOONA CILIATA. NIPSTER's commanding victory was timed in 1:43.3, recorded in a dead wind, going close to the 1:43.0 MAHOGANY posted mid-August. M...

With the jockeys’ championship seemingly set to end in a stalemate, Dane Nelson and Anthony Thomas reporting ill and deadlocked on 84 winners apiece, Caymanas Park’s last bit of excitement for 2020 pits champion trainer Anthony Nunes against nemesis Wayne DaCosta in Sunday’s Jamaica Two Year Old Stakes. Nunes, whose stakes lead puts him out of DaCosta’s reach to deny him a second trainers’ title, faces a challenge to find a replacement rider for Nelson aboard ante-post favourite, FURTHER AND BEYOND. The champion trainer has four runners in the event. He has booked six-time champion ...