RACE DAY REVIEW FOR SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2026

Today the spotlight was on the track announcers and presenters, Anthony Tyson (race 2), Robert Darby Jr (race 4), Brian Rickman (race 5), Michael Cain (race 8) and Kevin Burnside (race 9), who made presentations to the winning connections. Obviously missing from participation was the ailing Howard Abrahams, an erstwhile colleague of this writer and one of the best and most knowledgeable race callers and radio analysts. Race six was the Howard Abrahams Trophy.

Featured on the programme of 10 races and staged as the final event was another renewal of the Caymanas Park Announcers Trophy, a 6½-furlong Overnight Allowance for non-winners at this level. Unsuccessful 2026 Triple Crown aspirant Mohanlal (2-1), fourth in the 2000 Guineas, made no impression in the St Leger or Jamaica Derby, overtook DaCosta’s battling pair of front runners I Dream Again (8-5) and Formalist (7-1), ridden by Halledeen and Foster, inside the last furlong to defeat them by two and five and a half lengths, respectively.

Sir Ganga Jamuna, trained by Ricardo Brown and bet at 7-1 against, won the opening $350K claiming event. The victory is owed in no measure to the above-average ability and experience of Phillip Parchment. The veteran reinsman and sitting president of the Jamaica Jockeys’ Guild induced the seven-year-old bay horse, a progeny of Legal Process, to abandon its customary early sprint for the lead, and to relax in a prominent position before overtaking the frontrunners close home to score by just under one length at the end of the five-furlong gallop on the straight course.