 Yeah, we're at the track covering the Sport of Kings in the show this week. Champion trainer Jason LaCosta lands his first Jamaica 2-year-old stakes win in a surprise score for his 9-1 entry, interesting times ahead. At the Garrison Savannah, Barbados' lottery trophy win for Sir David Seales Renaissance Frolick that clinches the trainer's title for Andrew Nunes. While in TNT, it's that champion combination again, Jockey Brown Boudram Singh and trainer John O'Brien linking up for a big gold cup tramp. And at Goldstream Park, more sunshine for Barbadian champion trainer Safi Joseph Jr. in the Sunshine State. Our opening story in the last At The Track show for 2023 from Jamaica. Holiday racing's biggest K-Manus Barker traction this week was the Jamaica 2-year-old stakes, the Boxing Day feature with 10 starters going a mile and worth a hefty 4 million Jamaican dollars. Leading trainer Jason LaCosta with 6 starters, his most fancied entries, number 2 come home to me at 7-2 and horses 7-8, Fast and Furious links at 5-1 and the 7-1 bet, Bannadura. It's Richie Azan's 9 horse, Miss Cherry the favorite though, at 2-1. Number 5 Matuso and number 6 interest in times ahead, the only colds in the field among the fillet dominated entries as we join Brown Rickman's call down the back stretch. Bannadura out in front, tested by Matuso ahead separates them, they fly past the 6. Come home to me races next, some 3 lengths back with Run Julie Runner for company. Fast and Furious links races up next, in behind those that's interesting times ahead. A break of 2 back to Rosetta, they leave the 5. Buttercup races on the outside beginning to make ground, Lucy in the sky, Miss Cherry just aboard the back and now asked to improve as they arrive at the half mile and speed will now be added to the race as they run the turn. Bannadura trying to slip away from horses, Run Julie Run now moves quickly down into 2nd and chasing Matuso, fading back just a bit. Interesting times ahead, wound up for Run. Just on the outside that Fast and Furious links come home to me races with Lucy in the sky. Miss Cherry has a lot to do from there along with Buttercup and forget Rosetta at the moment as the field turned for home in the Jamaica 2 year old stakes, they leave the top of the lane and Run Julie Run now scoots through and grabs the lead. Interesting times ahead down against the rail, it's Run Julie Run tackled now by Interesting times ahead and Interesting times ahead, kicks and gets that lead. Run Julie Run left the length and the half back. It's Interesting times ahead inside the final 16th, who holds the advantage under the bustling Philip Parchment. They win the Jamaica 2 year old stakes. The richest 2 year old event in Jamaican racing at just over 25,600 US dollars, Philip Parchment aboard the winning cold, Interesting times ahead by Bold Conquest out of the he's the real thing mirror, my friend Lucy, trained at Acosta's first 2 year old stakes win this after getting 2nd last year with Mamma Mia. Liz Acosta's interest in times ahead at 9-1 odds, conditioned by her son Jason in only his 2nd full season as a K-Manus spark trainer and he is 1-3 here with his 5-1 shot, Fast and Furious links 3rd. Run Julie Run 2nd at 7-2, the winning time for a mile, 1 minute 39 and 2-5ths of a second. Saturday's main event on Jamaica's holiday weekend card was the Chris Salmon Memorial Sprint. She's my destiny the defending champion and odds on favorite, but it's Emperor of the Cats boasting a 2 race winning streak in control coming off the final bend. They're about to come into the lane in the Christopher Chris Salmon Memorial Sprint trophy. They're into it now and Emperor of the Cats continues to deny them. Freedom Street is on the rail, she's my destiny and the big weight racing behind. American tap is toward the outside but Emperor of the Cats continues to pour it on under full power. Emperor of the Cats leaves my 4 or more inside the final 16th. This is the Christopher Chris Salmon Memorial Sprint trophy. They won't deny Emperor of the Cats in Chaventowns and they win by maybe 3. Third win in a row this for the four-year-old gelding, Emperor of the Cats claiming apprentice Chaventowns in a board for owner, trainer and breeder, Carl Anderson. As the 2-1 second favorite, Emperor of the Cats, the 2000 Guinness third place last year gets career win number 10 from 20 starts, chased by Freedom Street with a favorite, she's my destiny third. 106 flat the winning time for the five and a half furlong Chris Salmon Memorial Sprint. Barbados' 2023 season closed with Tuesday's Boxing Day card, the Barbados' lottery trophy as the main event, and the Ireland bred Soswaf, who was third in the Sanderlain Gold Cup in March, was the even money favorite. A five-horse field going 7.8 furlongs and dabble-winning Jockey Ray Williams eyeing a front-running win was still setting the pace mid-race with the multiple stakes winner in the USA, Renaissance Frolick, watched in the come box by Dean Springer. Renaissance Frolick has gone on and opened up a four-length advantage to Bejan Azteca, Soswaf has begun her run, Zahid under the pump, vividly hard ridden. They come inside the three-blown marker, and it's Renaissance Frolick who's in front by a length and a half from on the outside, Soswaf, vividly trying desperately to close. Zahid has had enough and so too has Bejan Azteca, and there are no more turns and Renaissance Frolick has come to the front on the ASI, vividly trying to close. Soswaf on the outside runs, battled out. It is Renaissance Frolick under left high drive. Her dog swicks it all, starts to punch him out, vividly with one last desperate search. It's terrible! Lots of lives still in these old legs. The 80-year-old Renaissance Frolick narrowly fends off the late rush from top Jockey Rashid Hughes aboard vividly to score. A winner of three-stakes races at Florida's Godstream Park in his younger days, Renaissance Frolick, on-placed in two sand-delaying gold cup outings, sixth in 2020 and fourth this year, gets his second win in four starts at the garrison. Both these wins in the hands of Ray Williams, who spoke post-race to George Davis. First of all, I want to say thanks to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for taking me around here safe and for this opportunity. The plan was, I know they had a bit of speed on the inside, so I know he doesn't need to lead. He's not a crack-for-runner. I planned to just let him break, let him see where he's comfortable, and I always thought that maybe the hearts would clear away, but he got so close to them, he was just trying to kind of fight me the whole way, so I took the initiative, I thought it was the best arts in the race, so I wrote him like that, and I also put him in front. He relaxed beautifully, he cleared away from the field, so I was just hoping that when I asked him again, he would give me confidence to go on again, and that's exactly what he did. Sir David Seals Renaissance Frolick by a nose in the Barbados loft-retrofe feature edging vividly at the finish, the joint two-to-one second favorites fighting it out, the favorite so-so of a fairly close-up third, 1.38-6 to the winning time for 7.8 furlongs in a result that clinched the trainer's championship for Andrew Nunes, the Jamaican second title in three years. At TNT Santa Rosa Park on Tuesday, the Boxing Day feature was as usual the gold cup, and as usual a very strong hand for the champion trainer, John O'Bran, starting five of the eight entries, including last year's winner Crown Prince. O'Bran was in fact eyeing his fourth consecutive win in the gold cup, and his entries after dominating the betting Hello World, the favorite Crown Prince Soka Harmony, and this year's triple crown winner in the headlines, the second, third, and fourth favorites proceeded to control the 10 furlong run, picked up in the Combox by John Rupert, leaving the back stretch. After just exhale is making headlines, the two trailers are Princess Aruna and Stroka Vlok at the top of the stretch in the gold cup, and in the headlines is holding them sway, Crown Prince is coming on. Coming up the rail now is Hello World, who gets a dream run. Soka Harmony is throwing it down inside the final 200 meters, and Hello World is coming away. Crown Prince is in second, then comes Soka Harmony, but Hello World is going to get his grade one success. What a fine run from Hello World on their Bran Boudram Singh, who with a Tuesday triple clinched a fifth consecutive jockey's title, despite missing almost six months of the season while riding in Canada. An early season injury had scuppered Hello World's triple crown bid, missing the Guinness and then runner-up to Stablemate in the headlines in the Derby and the Midsummer Classic, but he has no equal here as trainer Bran makes it four gold cup wins in a row. After making headlines, affirmative, and Crown Prince. The Poon tip-stud farms Hello World in his first grade one triumph, scoring by three-and-three-quarter lengths as the even-money-favorite ahead of Crown Prince and 2022 Dabu winner Soka Harmony in a 1-2-3 sweep for champion trainer Bran, 2-9-38 the winning time for the 10-4-long gold crown. To Florida now, where the Barbadian trainer Sapit Joseph Jr. is closing the Goldstream Park racing year in 2023, the way he started it, a champion winning stakes races. Kenneth Ramsey's great Philip B. My Sunshine was a moderately-backed 8-1 bet for Sapit Joseph in Saturday's Tropical Park Oaks, but honor Edgar Zaz maneuvered well from post-position 11 in the 12-horse field, was always traveling smoothly in the Milan 16th run and is about to charge into a winning rail run here under the champion jockey. They run to the top of the stretch. They stack four across the course from the inside. It's speed-trapped the leader. B. My Sunshine got through, breath away down the center, start-up mentality, Alphabella running home with an eighth of a mile to go. B. My Sunshine roused forward to take the lead. On the outside, breath away from between Alphabella. They come home for the wire. B. My Sunshine's still there. Breath away, surging! Sapit's 180th victory this for 2023 in his second-best season in win since moving to Florida in 2011. B. My Sunshine gives the Barbadian 36-year-old trainer his 16th steaks win this term. A winner by a head in the $125,000 Tropical Park Oaks, clocking 1.39.34 for the 8.5 furlong turf run. And before we go, a steaks win to report for the Barbadian jockey, Rocco Boen. No Carracom rider has more wins in 2023 in North America than he has. Aboard the 1-9 favorite shadowy for trainer Tim Ham. Boen was a huge 8.5-length winner of the Joshua Rodasovic memorial steaks for two-year-olds. Shadowy won the $75,000 event over six furlongs in 112.13 giving Boen his 99th win of the year. We've been at the track covering top stories and exciting races. In the sport of kings, thanks for joining us for all of 2023. A happy new year to you now. And check us out again next week.