West Indies cricket is about to enter the international Twenty20 circus following a ritzy Press Reception at the prestigious Sandy Lane Country Club on Tuesday evening. It was a night when many of the biggest names in West Indies cricket threw their support behind businessman Ajmal Khan and his company Venus International fully backed by the

 
It is that time of the year when Special Olympics athletes are in the midst of their most intense training.  They are on the track, in the pool and on the bocce court sharpening their skills for the big competition event of the year – the Special Olympics Barbados Annual National Games.
 
The action gets off to a fast

Britain’s Martin Stockdale has confirmed that he will once again compete in the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International - Sol Rally Barbados - when he makes his 13th consecutive appearance in the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event over the weekend of June 1/2 this year.
  Fresh from celebrating daughter Laura-Jo’s

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THE HALL OF FAME RACEDAY

Featuring

THE HON. E. KEITH WALCOTT Q.C. MEMORIAL (HANDICAP)

FINAL PROGRAM for Day 4 - Saturday, February 9, 2013

Forecast

Barbados claimed their second victory today at Holders against the Villages in the Johnny Walker Villages Polo tour Series.  Tune in on Sunday to see if the Villages can pull one back!  Many Villages supporters travelled with the team and they are pictured in the clubhouse enjoying the action!

 Duke of Edinburgh Golf Cup to be played at Royal Westmoreland 16 March 2013 compliments the DOE Foundation in Barbados.

Dr Trevor Carmichael and The Duke Of Edinburgh Foundation in Barbados is seeking your support in playing or organizing a group of four to play in the upcoming Duke of Edinburgh Golf Cup, to be held at Royal

Many of the leading sports performers and personalities packed into the
Frank Collymore Hall last Saturday evening for the National Sports Council
Awards. The winners spanned a wide range of sporting achievements with the
principal awards going to former world 110 metres hurdles sprinter Ryan
Brathwaite and the

Pamela Hiles, Hiltop Publications and  Editor of Sporting Barbados magazine and website was awarded the Sports Tourism Award by the National Sports Council of Barbados at their recent awards ceremony in Frank Collymore Hall. 

  Sporting Barbados, a free and available quality publication, has been depicting this island as a perfect

Entries posted on the official web site (www.rallybarbados.net) for Sol Rally Barbados (June 1/2), the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International, passed 80 this week . . . and there is strong support for the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event from local crews, particularly those in

Due to the wet ground, polo is cancelled at Holders today Thursday 31st Jan 2013.

MOTOR SPORT VOLUNTEERS PRAISED FOR COMMITMENT
Senior motor sport volunteers keen to enhance their skill sets were praised at the weekend as they assembled for a pre-season training programme organised by the Barbados Motoring Federation (BMF) and majority funded by the sport’s world governing body, the Federation Internationale d’

 

Garrison Savannah                                        www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE HALL OF FAME RACEDAY

Featuring

 THE HON. E. KEITH WALCOTT Q.C. MEMORIAL (HANDICAP)

ENTRIES for Day 4 - Saturday, February 9, 2013

Form

Congratulations to Catherine Jordan on becoming the new President of the AAA in Barbados. Big thank you to Ester Maynard for her sterling contribution over the years. Sporting Barbados salutes you!

The team of English Blind cricketers have arrived on island to celebrate their 10th anniversary with matches in Barbados. Welcome Back! See the paper for details of match venues.

British rally driver Andy Hawkins will this year return to the Caribbean’s biggest annual motor sport International, Sol Rally Barbados (June 1/2), for the first time since his debut in an historic Austin Mini 10 years ago. This time, he will be at the wheel of a Volkswagen Golf GTI MkIV, formerly his mother’s company car, which is currently

 Dynamite has the right Idea
  The gruelling round the island yacht race on Errol Barrow Day was won by Dynamite Idea with the multi-hull Silver Bullet some 30 minutes in arrears. The race started and finished in Carlisle Bay just off the Barbados Cruising Club where the post-race social activities continued late in the evening. Many of

These are the first two matches of the Roger Gooding Memorial 6 Goal 
Tournament which is scheduled for this week.  The other days of play 
are as follows:
Sunday, 20 January - Lion Castle Polo Club
Tuesday, 22 January - Lion Castle Polo Club
Thursday, 24 January - Apes Hill Polo Club
Friday, 25

The Sandy Lane Charitable Trust held their annual Charity Golf day and dinner on Friday at the Sandy Lane Country Club. It was an extremely well organised event by the terrific Pippa Challis and a  who's who of people from the island and abroad. We don't know the exact amount  raised by the event yet but all funds will go to the very

 

Garrison Savannah                       www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION RACEDAY

Featuring

· THE COOLMORE “HOME OF CHAMPIONS” STAKES & TROPHY (GR.1. – BAR)

ENTRIES for Day 3 - Saturday, January 26, 2013

Roger ‘The Sheriff’ Skeete will lead the home team when Sol Rally Barbados 2013 is staged over the weekend of June 1/2 . . . and the most successful driver in the 23-year history of the Caribbean island’s premier event is very much looking forward to the new season after what he describes as some “character-building” moments in 2012.

 

Garrison Savannah                            www.barbadosturfclub.org

THE REALTORS LIMITED RACEDAY

Featuring

·        THE MICHAEL PARRAVICINO MEMORIAL HOPEFUL BREEDERS’

STAKES & TROPHY (GR.11RB. – BAR)

·         THE

Go out and enjoy these local chukkas!

This Errol Barrow Bank Holiday weekend the 77th anniversary Mount Gay Rum Round Barbados Race Series returns to our shores, organised by the Barbados Cruising Club in association with Mount Gay Rum and The Barbados Tourism Authority.  All Barbadians are invited to join the festivities around the Island, and witness this spectacular event,

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