Dubbed the "Sport of Kings", horse-racing in Barbados is enjoyed by every facet of the local community and by many visitors to the island. Fun and enjoyment play the major role in the sport's image and the ambitious Barbados Turf Club committee is determined to maintain that characteristic as they plan for the future.All horse racing in Barbados takes place on the flat at the Garrison Savannah race track just outside Bridgetown and within a stone's throw of Carlisle Bay. Formerly the drilling and parade ground for the local militia, extensive drainage schemes by the Royal Engineers Transformed a damp swampland into a popular recreation area, a feature which has barely changed over the past 200 years. Certainly by 1846, Race Day on the savannah was a major event on both the sporting and social calender of Barbados...Continued in Sporting Barbados!
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