A great time was had by all on Diamond Mile Day when She’s A Maneater silenced all naysayers and cemented an unparalleled 17th Trainers’ Championship for living legend Wayne DaCosta. She didn’t just win; she discombobulated a field of the best horses in training with a remarkable turn of...

Now that the greatest Jamaican race horse trainer of all time has put down his marker as such by winning the only Grade 1 race to escape him over the years, namely the Burger King Superstakes, I know racing statisticians want to have a career breakdown of his greatness....

  The Terrible Tout Government announced the merger of the three separate regulatory bodies set up to monitor and control Jamaican gambling and horse racing too long ago but, as is the norm, hasn’t implemented. How foolish is it to have a Racing Commission (JRC; 7 political appointees) to...

  In the July 21 edition of Public Opinion, I addressed what I called the “sharp decline” of race horse owners (“Owners are People Too”) which the powers-that-be in the sport ignores as if all is hunky dory. The actual numbers from my usually reliable sources (getting information from...

My usually reliable sources tell me this year’s Yearling Sale has hit rock bottom with only 86 entries. EIGHTY-SIX? Christ on a crutch, that’s down 34% from 2016’s paltry 130 and a massive 60% from 2009’s 213 entries. It can no longer be swept under the carpet. Jamaica’s breeding...

How often have you heard the refrain from punters exiting the track with empty pockets “but mi did pick five winners today…”? These punters have lost sight of the most important factor in any enterprise, namely its objective is the pursuit of profit.  Especially in Jamaica, where the Tote...

 As the long hot summer takes its toll, especially on fillies, and the months tick over into August, serious handicappers should be longing for autumn. Every summer, especially these climate-change-induced hell-fire summers we’ve recently experienced, the average punter goes berserk losing his/her hard earned cash on fillies with obviously...

  The most important persons in any industry are the customers, which is why the record high takeouts by Jamaica’s racing promoter must be addressed if the industry is to survive. I’ve already written on how this can be achieved (May 26, 2017: ‘Time for Financial Fundamentals’) in which...

Once again, a piece of horse racing history has been written by officials instead of contestants as the stewards stepped in and disqualified yet another Grade 1 winner. From as far back as April 28, I wrote in Public Opinion about HENRY THE SECOND after his win in a...