Barbados Gold Cup

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Group I race
Barbados Gold Cup

Location Garrison Savannah Racetrack
Bridgetown, Barbados
Inaugurated 1982
Race type Thoroughbred - Flat racing
Website www.woodbineentertainment.com
Race information
Distance 1800 metres (8.95 furlongs)
Track Turf, left-handed
Qualification Three-year-olds & up
Weight Assigned
Purse Bds$200,000

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

[edit] Records

Speed record:

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

Most wins:

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

Most wins by an owner:

  • 5 - Sir David Seale (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993)

Most wins by a jockey:

  • 4 - Venice Richards (1986, 1989, 1991, 1992)
  • 4 - Jono Jones (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003)

Most wins by a trainer:

[edit] Winners of the Barbados Gold Cup

Year
Winner
Age
Jockey
Trainer
Owner
Time
2008 Pure Temptation 4 Anderson Ward William Clarke Lord Michael Taylor 1:50.40
2007 Whiskey For Me 5 Rickey Walcott Elizabeth Deane Aysha Syndicate 1:50.20
2006 Sharp Impact 6 Patrick Husbands Robert Peirce Gay Smith 1:50.60
2005 Feet On Flames 6 Anderson Trotman Clayton Greenidge Luther G. Miller III 1:50.20
2004 Kathir 7 Slade Callaghan Nazih Issa E.& L. Melnyk 1:53.73
2003 Thady Quill 6 Jono Jones William C. Marshall Gay Smith 1:48.60
2002 Blast of Storm 5 Jono Jones William C. Marshall Sally Arbib 1:48.60
2001 Blast of Storm 5 Jono Jones William C. Marshall Sally Arbib 1:48.60
2000 Blast of Storm 4 Jono Jones William C. Marshall Sally Arbib 1:49.20
1999 Peace Envoy 7 Anderson Ward R. Deane Attie Joseph III 1:49.20
1998 Federico 5 Simon Husbands Challenor Jones Richard Edwards 1:51.60
1997 Incitatus 4 Dale Whittaker Challenor Jones Blair Down 1:49.80
1996 Rambrino 4 Chris Griffith Sean Hall Robert Sangster 1:50.00
1995 Asian Jane 4 Richard Quinn William C. Marshall Paul H. Locke 1:50.60
1994 Alto Jane 5 Richard Quinn William C. Marshall Paul H. Locke 1:49.60
1993 Chou Chou Royale 6 Sandy Hawley Scobie Breasley Sir David Seale 1:52.60
1992 Sandford Prince 7 Venice Richards Scobie Breasley Sir David Seale 1:49.20
1991 Sandford Prince 6 Venice Richards Scobie Breasley Sir David Seale 1:50.20
1990 Vardar 3 Patrick Husbands Challenor Jones Sylvie Beuzelin 1:50.40
1989 Sandford Prince 4 Venice Richards Scobie Breasley Sir David Seale 1:51.00
1988 Call To Account nf Emile Ramsammy V. Roberts Roland I. Khan 1:49.80
1987 Stangrave Park 4 Emile Ramsammy G. Edghill W. Greenidge 1:50.80
1986 Bentom 4 Venice Richards Ron Burke Sir David Seale 1:50.80
1985 Frisky Wharf 4 Emile Ramsammy Joseph Hadeed George Bros. Stables 1:50.60
1984 Tinkers Image 4 Ricky Griffith William C. Marshall Mrs. Gill Wilson 1:50.80
1983 Iron Lover 4 Bryn Crossley Guy Cottrell Laurent Cottrell 1:54.00
1982 Bold Lewis 6 Declan Gillespie Cyril Arneaud J. E. Camacho 1:52.80

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