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Letitbeme and Matilda, winners of the first and second Jewel Of The Barbados Triple Crown, the Guineas and the Midsummer Creole Classic, highlight a pivotal clash in Tuesday’s featured Barbados Derby at the Garrison Savannah. This spectacle will unfold on the Barbados Turf Club’s eight-race programme entitled Visit Barbados Derby Raceday which rolls off at 1 p.m. A full field of 12 runners will be vying for the premier show …
Yet another American trainer has his eyes set on winning the Sandy Lane Gold Cup.Less than two weeks following the running of the most prestigious horse race in the Eastern Caribbean at the Garrison Savannah, Riley Mott the son of legendary American Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, has disclosed his intention to compete in the 2024 edition.Speaking from his stables at Oaklawn Park via telephone, Mott told Barbados TODAY he was looking for a graded stakes winning horse to win the Sandy Lane Gold Cup and become just the third North American trainer to do so after Mark Casse in 2010 and Mike Maker in 2014 and 2015 respectively.Mott, who worked with his father for eight years before venturing out on his own, has five wins and three second-place finishes in 28 starts.His father Bill, is a three-time winner of the Eclipse Award for outstanding trainer, and has also trained multiple champions, including two-time Horse of the Year Cigar.
The grey mare Celestial Storm won the Boxing Day Stakes and Trophy Grade 1 for a second time on Monday at the Garrison Savannah after taking it for the first time in 2019. The seven-year-old five-time Grade 1 winner has now entered an elite group of horses to win the Boxing Day feature twice in its 35-year-old historyNot many imported horses in Barbadian history have won five Grade 1 races. The top mare has now won the Sandy Lane Gold Cup, Sandy Lane Spa Sprint, Coolmore Stakes and two Boxing Day Trophies under her belt and cemented herself as one of the greatest imported horses to come to Barbados.