Some 40 horses recently arrived at the Royal Saint Lucia Turf Club in late October to prepare for the Caribbean Equine Culture Festival and racing event, highlighted by the $150,000 Pitons Cup.
Horses arrive at the Royal Saint Lucia Turf Club
The Pitons Cup will be the richest race in the Caribbean and 12 slots are sold and each slot holder will be ‘gifted’ a starter. The horses are mostly unraced 3-year-olds purchased at the 2018 June OBS sale and prepared by Brandon and Ali Rice’s Ricehorse Stable in Ocala. These horses are for sale at $20,000 (US).
The slot holders as reported by the RSLTC are, so far, WinStar Farm; Taylor Made; Todd Pletcher, Sol Kumin & Brad Weisbord; and Dan Schafer. Harrington unveiled four more slot holders in top Jamaican trainer Anthony Nunez, who is teaming up with Barry Irwin’s Team Valor; Trinidadian owners Merlin Samlalsingh and Wilfred Acham; a group from Australia that includes Henry Field of Newgate Farms, Telluride and Richard and Michael Freedman; and California-based owners Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen.
Read more about the RSLTC here.
Below – Video courtesy of Kent Layne.
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