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Barbados Gold Cup

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Inaugurated
  
1982

Surface
  
Turf

Website
  
barbadosturfclub.com

Location
  
Garrison Savannah Racetrack Bridgetown, Barbados

Race type
  
Thoroughbred - Flat racing

Distance
  
1800 metres (8.95 furlongs)

The Barbados Gold Cup is a Barbadian Group I Thoroughbred horse race run annually in late February/early March since 1982 at the Garrison Savannah Racetrack in Bridgetown, Barbados. Contested over a turf course at a distance of 1,800 metres (8.95 furlongs), it is open to horses, age three or older.

The most important event on the Barbados horse racing calendar, it was inaugurated in 1982 with the intention of attracting the top horses from Caribbean countries. Since 1997 the race has been sponsored by the Sandy Lane Hotel.

In 1999, nineteen-year-old Attie S. Joseph III became the youngest owner to win the Gold Cup.

In 2007, Elizabeth Deane became the first female trainer to saddle a winner of the Barbados Gold Cup.

Records

Speed record:

  • 1:48.60 - Blast of Storm (2001, 2002)
  • 1:48.60 - Thady Quill (2003)

    • Most wins:

  • 3 - Sandford Prince (1989, 1991, 1992)
  • 3 - Blast of Storm (2000, 2001, 2002)

    • Most wins by an owner:

  • 7 - Sir David Seale (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2012, 2013)

    • Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Venice Richards (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992)
  • 4 - Jono Jones (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)
  • 4 - Patrick Husbands (1990, 2006, 2010, 2014)

    • Most wins by a trainer:

  • 7 - William C. Marshall (1984, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

    • References

    Barbados Gold Cup Wikipedia
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