 Yeah, we're at the track covering the sport of Kings coming up this week or opening show for 2024 Jereca's 2022 horse of the year Atomica Dominates the Ian Levy Cup as the new season opens at Kimana Spark We flashback to boxing day cards with impressive two-year-olds on show at the garrison savannah in Barbados and Santa Rosa Park in Trinidad and Tobago setting themselves up for three-year-old classic campaigns and There's hardly an at-the-track show without a sapphire Joseph headline story the Barbadian champion trainer logs Yet another stakes win at Florida's Gulfstream Park Plus the usual weekly stats on Caribbean success on the North American continent or opening story from Jamaica Only five starters in Monday's New Year's Day feature at Kimana Spark The prolific Atomica coming in with 13 wins in 18 lifetime starts the heavy favorite ready to atone for her mootay mile Disappointment when jockey Dane Dawkins fell from aboard her approaching the home turn There's the field all with the exception of the two-horse sister in treasure raced in December's Rich mootay mile number one Mamma Mia third in the mootay at five to two odds here the Oak Ridge farms five-year-old Mere Atomica the three to five favorite in the three box number four is that a fact at seven to two and the two to one second favorite in post position five Perfect brew like she did in the mootay mile last year's Phyllis Guinness and Oaks winner Mamma Mia led early with brisk splits of 23 by 45 three, but with ace commentator brand Rickman picking them up mid-race It's Atomica taking control as they have left the five and come away now toward the final half of a mile in the end Evie Atomica now slips through and opens up a gap quickly Is that a fact is going in pursuit and cuts to lead to two and a half length sister in treasure is another three lengths back Perfect brew is next and Mamma Mia has holed up at the back of the field as they run toward the final three eighths of a mile Atomica out in front track bike is that a fact needing to find a length and a piece as they drive past the 2516 sister in treasure is six lengths of them then perfect brew as they come into the lane Atomica with the lead near the rail is that a fact now pulling alongside them the battle is on the battle continues to rage Atomica giving way is that a fact on the outside Atomica rallying on the rail It's Atomica and is that a fact in a duel in the stretch They race past it for a long pole and now Atomica asserts and begins to open up is that a fact is for tearing It's Atomica coming away This is the fourth running of the Ian Levy Cup and Atomica obliges and will win easily in the end by five or six over Is that a fact Atomica has no challengers in deep stretch as she pulls clear to win with authority former champion Jockey Day Dawkins and trainer Garry Sabrati each logging their second Ian Levy Cup win Dawkins had scored in 2022 aboard Mahogany and Sabrati's Nipster had won the inaugural staging in 2020 the Oak Ridge Farms Atomica rebounds from her Mute mile defeat with a five and three quarter length win in the Ian Levy as a Three-to-five favorite registering a sixth win in her last seven starts Is that a fact second at seven to two one minute forty three and four-fifths Atomica's winning time for eight and a half furlongs Monday's second repeater was the SVR EL fan appreciation day trophy race over nine furlongs on 25 yards And it's the consistent neo-star coming off four wins and a second-place finish in his last five starts in control Entering the home stretch. They're at the top of the lane and neo-star now is the front here comes a sensational move on the outside neo-star driven for old G Dwork Sensational move coming back for more it's neo-star in front Sensational move trying to get to neo-star neo-star is still in front and traveling while it's neo-star and the sneaky fox Radish Roman beginning to get away from the field and this is the SVR EL fanatry appreciation though appreciation a trophy neo-star Kevin Burnside on commentary the PJK teams neo-star with a fifth win in seven lifetime starts Continues radish Romans good form the 25-year-old jock on an afternoon double and stretches his winning streak to a colony best nine consecutive race days neo-star three-to-one scores by three and three-quarter lengths for trainer Peter John Passard Sensational move at six to one is second the winning time in the 9.1 furlong SVR EL fan appreciation day trophy 155 and three-fifths Saturday's main events were the divided vestia trophy races division one favorite money miser But it was the two-to-one bet nor blar with a polished run on the former champion jockey Christopher Mamdeen scoring by five and a half lengths chased by money miser and huntsman and stopping the clock at 132 and two-fifths Formed jockey Tevin Foster was just as big a winner in the vestia division to steering the one-to-two Favorite divine force to the win ahead of the second favorite all for love Divine force scoring a six and a quarter length win fittingly for trainer Philip Fianni who trained vestia to triple classic success in 1993 let's flashback quickly now to boxing day season closing meets and Barbados and Trinidad at Tobago We're exciting two-year-olds advertised some promise for classic racing in 2024 First the Barbados the favorite Mercedes in the express cash trophy experienced some traffic problems But would recover with an outside run in the hands of the skillful Ricky Walcott It's a terrible home. It's queen of the south and the inside on the outside Mercedes under right hand right trying to close It is queen of the south drifting under pressure on the outside Mercedes picking them up It's queen of the south some Mercedes Mercedes on queen of the south Mercedes is gonna get home of ends it despite being Dean's bringer on commentary Mercedes finishes strongly on the outside for the win for trainer Richard Dean No trainer had more wins in 2023 than he had this filly by Aston Martin out of the Janak mayor Janaki gets her second winning four starts for owners Curlan Felicia and Steven Jardine Mercedes by a length and a quarter as the 7 to 5 favorite wins the express cash trophy ahead of queen of the south at 6 to 1 clocking 142 flat for the 7.8 furlong trip Meanwhile at TNT Santa Rosa Park after a 2023 triple crown success within the headlines Another filly sard by headline news poised for classic glory Headlines again making the St. James in and steaks look easy watched in the Combox by John Rupert They come to the top of the stretch in the centan St. James steaks and headlines again brings them there A leader by two and a half lengths crème de la crème the stick is out on hole Then comes red alert staying on hot rod cash and looks to be beaten uncle Raj is running on But inside the final 200 meters and headlines again is pulling clear and she's gonna Another steaks victory and a classy filly headlines again Impressive champion Jockey brand bootram sing for champion trainer John O'Bran the third straight St. James and Anne's win for that super combination after crown prince in 2021 and hello world in 2022 by headline news out of the hole that tiger mayor Sherris tiger headlines again is owned by Ruth and Smith who also bred the filly Three wins in a row now for the undefeated headlines again following up on her early December Nursery steaks victory scoring by six and a half lengths in Santa Rosa Park's biggest two-year-old event as a one to nine favorite Topping stablemate creme de la creme and clocking 1 24 96 for six and three quarter furlongs and what a story for Jockey bootram sing champion for the fifth year in a row despite missing Five and a half months of the season while campaigning in Canada a last-day triple completed with the last race of the year Propelling him to the top with 14 wins his ninth TNT Jockey's title champion by a single winner over Dylan Kellewan and Champion apprentice Tristan Phillips who both had 13 wins and let's not leave the Caribbean without quickly giving last weekend's announcements of the 2023 awards for the rising Ghana Thoroughbred racing industry He was beaten in the New Year's Day feature by boss Elena But on the strength of wins on Ghana Cup day and boxing day Spankhurst is horse of the year for 2023 but jumbo jet racing the champion owners Colin Russ won the jockey of the year award And we are expecting significant growth in Ghana's racing this year with over 60 horses imported from Trinidad at Tobago and The United States to improve the racing and breeding stock there to that sapphire Joseph junior store Now the Barbadian champion trainer boosting his log of steaks wins for 23 to 17 at Gulfstream Park in Florida Iing a second consecutive win in the $150,000 Harlins holiday stakes Safi had two entries approaching the home turn his peer well-placed New York traffic in second and O'Connor in third Peter yellow behind the binoculars watching They went three quarters in one ten and four Grand Aspen has delayed O'Connor has secured the inside spot But he's a length and a half behind from the outside. It's octane. Nobody running home from the back We're down to two chances here off the turn in the stretch drive The leader is Grand Aspen on the inside O'Connor has a 16th to get by New York traffic back running again Fuddled 16th of a mile New York traffic not done. He's closing ground O'Connor finishing up toward the rail Here's O'Connor inside O'Connor gets up to it There's the big entourage for Safi Joseph's O'Connor with Jockey Tyler Gaffleon in the winners enclosure Completing back-to-back added money wins having scored in the Haggard Fayette stakes at Keeneland in October O'Connor lands the Harlins by a net clocking 14380 for eight and a half furlongs New York traffic third in a 1-3 finish for Safi Joseph Who had won the Harlins holiday last year as well with skip-along stocking Our usual weekly tally of wins for Caribbean racing men in the USA before we go have counted in the past week Since our last show 14 of them among them the Jamaican trainer Raymond handle with two wins At aqueduct in New York where Ghani's trainers Randy Prasad and Nipole Chatterpole also won two weekend wins at Tampa Bay Downs for The Jamaican trainer Rinaldo Richards and there were wins at Mahoning Valley for the Jamaican champion trainer Jason Lacosta and a Charleston in West Virginia for the Barbadian Jockey Rishon Lachman We've been at the track covering top stores and exciting races in the sport of Kings Check us out again next week