Monday, September 16, 2024

21 THE STAR SPORTS • Monday, September 16, 2024 @JamaicaStar www.facebook.com/JamaicaStar • www.jamaica-star.com BY JIMMIE STAR Racing Writer R EGGAE 6 bettors were spared upset ters yesterday, the longest shot being SHE’S A MIRAGE at 5-1 in the opening event, resulting in a payout of $31,900 to winning tickets. After using SHE’S A MIRAGE to outfinish 1-2 favourite BABYLOVE at five and a half furlongs, Victor Sanchez returned to produce PRINCIPAL TIFFANY in the stretch run at five and a half furlongs against five-year-olds and older, non-winners of two races. C l a imi ng r i de r Shane Richardson kept his composure aboard 4-1 chance TIGRAY EXPRESS, outfinishing favourite SIR JOHN in the third at seven furlongs. TIGRAY EXPRESS reproduced his exercise gallops to run out a strong winner. EQUINOX won as everybody’s banker at odds of 1-2 in the fourth among four-year-olds and older, non-winners of two races, grimly holding on under Abigail Able at five furlongs straight for back-to-back wins at the trip. PRINCESS RIA making all at five furlongs straight among four-year- old maidens was also a popular winner at odds of 1-2, taking most bets across the safe zone. FUNOMETER was a must-carry in a knotty fifth event at four furlongs straight for $400,000 claimers, leaving WARSAW to wrap the Reggae 6 at odds of 4-5 among three-year-old maidens at five and a half furlongs. Saturday’s Reggae 6 returned $16,837, the longest shot being 21-1 stunner BURNING HEDGE in the third at four furlongs straight. Leading rider Tevin Foster notched a two-timer yesterday, PRINCESS RIA and WARSAW, in the fifth and seventh, increasing his lead to eight winners ahead of Raddesh Roman, who closed the nine-race card with United States- bred DIGITAL ONE at five furlongs round. Racing continues on Saturday. Visiting Sanchez strikes early with Reggae 6 double AINSLEY WALTERS STAR Writer J AMAICA’s Akino Lindsay is set to be formally recognised for winning eight individual gold medals in tatami competitions at International Sport Kick Boxing Association (ISKA) Amateur Members Association World Championships. Lindsay, 29, is set to receive a special award in recognition of his impressive achievement on the eve of October’s tournament in Vienna, Austria. “Akino Lindsay’s feat of winning eight consecutive gold medals in two disciplines at the ISKA AMA World Championships, 2017- 2023, is an ISKA world record,” wrote Paul Hennessy, president, ISKA, Europe, in a correspondence to Jason McKay, Jamaica ISKA president and Lindsay’s manager. Lindsay’s award will be presented at the opening ceremony of the 2024 World Championships on October 23. Renowned for his strength and speed, Lindsay is an iconic figure in ISKA tatami sparring. “We don’t get recognised in Jamaica that much so it’s good to know someone will. What the award has done is to give me extra motivation. I aim to get double gold every time,” he said. Lindsay, on a hat-trick of double gold medal victories ahead of Austria 2024 - winning gold in continuous and points sparring at Turkey 2022 and Germany 2023 - first completed the double on home soil in 2018 at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, at which he also won team gold in continuous sparring. His first two ISKA gold medals were in continuous sparring at Portugal 2015 and Greece 2017, before completing the continuous- points sparring double in Jamaica, Turkey and Germany. Lindsay, coached by Claude Chin and managed by McKay, is a product of the Jamaica Taekwondo Association’s McKay Security High School Taekwondo programme. He underwent early martial arts training at St George’s College and the Jamaica Taekwondo centre before being drafted into the McKay-led Jamaica Combined Martial Arts Team. “I am actually feeling good to be recognised. It is a very, very difficult tournament to win, very physical, so the fact that I am being recognised, it shows that Jamaica, on the world stage of kickboxing, we are very dominant. I’m just happy to know that Jamaica is dominant in kickboxing,” Lindsay said recently during a break from training. Among a six-man squad representing Jamaica at Vienna 2024, Lindsay is hell bent on extending his world record to a hat-trick of double golds and 10 individual gold in point and continuous sparring categories. Training, Lindsay added, gets no easier with Chin and McKay demanding his all. “Training sessions are very long and hard. Every time I go out there, I go for gold. Being recognised doesn’t change anything for myself, the team or my coaches. It is always going to be tough. You don’t want to get into scouting any specific fighter, you train for the tournament.” ainsley.walters@gleanerjm.com ISKA Europe to honour Ja’s Lindsay Raddesh Roman stands tall in the saddle as DIGITAL ONE wins the Trevor McKenzie Trophy over five furlongs round at Caymanas Park yesterday. The event was a three-year-old and upwards Restricted Overnight Allowance Stakes. A nthony M inott Akino Lindsay G lAdstone t Aylor