Ever­ard Gor­don

Trinidad is all set to host the Caribbean Na­tions Rac­ing Chal­lenge on De­cem­ber 3, at the San­ta Rosa Race Course in Ari­ma. This was re­vealed by Chris Ar­mond, who has op­er­at­ed in man­age­r­i­al po­si­tions in Bar­ba­dos, T&T and in his own Ja­maica, and is cur­rent­ly pres­i­dent of the WI Thor­ough­bred Rac­ing Au­thor­i­ty. Ar­mond not­ed that plans in de­tail have been made for the pre­sen­ta­tion of the day's rac­ing, live by TVG to Caribbean and the rac­ing world. Not on­ly will the sport ben­e­fit enor­mous­ly but the coun­try will be shown in the most ben­e­fi­cial man­ner in a sport­ing event that is in­ter­na­tion­al­ly pop­u­lar.

ISS, which tele­vis­es Eng­lish and South African rac­ing here and Aus­tralian, Hong Kong rac­ing and oth­er sport­ing events all over the world, will be show­ing the events of Breed­ers Cup Day live, in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, an ad­ver­tise­ment for T&T that is in­valu­able. The prize mon­ey, ex­pect­ed to be US$2 mil­lion, will be wor­thy of the event and rac­ing com­peti­tors from oth­er Caribbean coun­tries-no­tably Bar­ba­dos, Ja­maica, St Lu­cia, Guyana and An­tigua-will be send­ing hors­es and many rac­ing fans here for the event. Plans are for the in­vi­ta­tion of world class jock­eys-among them Frankie Det­tori-to come and chal­lenge our own cham­pi­ons and to hol­i­day in the re­gion.

T&T's Emile Ram­sam­my and Ja­maica's Ra­jeev Maragh, high in the rank of lead­ing jock­eys in Cana­da are al­so ex­pect­ed to be here. One of the dif­fi­cul­ties be­ing ad­dressed is the need to lim­it ad­mis­sion on the day to en­sure that all who do go to the rac­ing will be com­fort­able in sur­round­ings that are not over­crowd­ed.

Every care will be tak­en to en­sure that the cater­ing will be of the high­est stan­dard.