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Kaieteur News
Thursday January 24, 2013
Third World looking to come first in 2013 - Trained by Guyana’s oldest groom It might be named Third World, but it is by no means a second or third class animal. In fact Third World is another racehorse that had an exceptionally good year in 2012 running out of the Lowell Quinn Stable of Alness Corentyne, Berbice. What is remarkable about Third World is that it is a locally bred animal and is one of the few locally bred racehorses that have been competing with a great deal of success. In fact if the Horseracing fraternity had a criteria and a system in place to decide on the champion horse Third World would be a serious contender for that accolade. Trained by Guyana oldest active trainer and groom, 83 year old Lowell Quinn, a number of factors will play into Third World hands for it to be considered one of top horses in Guyana at the moment. Apart from the age and experience of the trainer, the animal was reportedly able to
chalk up five victories from nine starts. That by itself is a remarkable achievement competing mainly among the three year old and H class horses. ‘ According to Quinn he has been into racing since he was a small boy and has tons of experience. He stated that with his years in the sport, he has a few things up his sleeves that his competitors do not know about. Unlike the other animals, Third World was bred and born right at Alness and as a locally bred horse it is really holding its own against the foreign animals, dispelling the notion that Guyana does not have good breeding stock. Quinn said that he and his grooms led by Randolph Gray would take care of the animal, grooming it to become the champion it presently is. It did not do much racing as a two year old, but the veteran said that he knew it would come on with a bang. He said that he primarily
Third World (right) romping to victory in one of its races.
supervises the training making sure that all its training programmes and other schedule are in place. The animal trains at the Port Mourant and Alness racetracks and is mostly piloted by Jockey Yap “Old Boy” Drepaul a native of
Alness. Most of its wins were achieved with Drepaul on its back. Looking back at racing during his younger days, Quinn stated that. “In those days racing was better organised and was of a higher standard. Horses use to come from England, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and other countries to Guyana to compete against the local horses. The Guyanese’s horses used to go overseas to compete and they would do so
successfully,” he stated. Quinn mentioned that, “Some of the horses use to fly into the country race and fly out the same day. Horseracing was fun and enjoyment in those days.” The veteran horse man with over seven decades into horseracing either as a participant, spectator and trainer or owner, said that he is utterly disappointed at what passes as horses racing today. He said that the sport is taken over by greed and indiscipline. He is hoping that
things can change and change rapidly. Quinn stated that horseracing and cricket are his first choices and will continue to do whatever he can to assist the horseracing to get back to its glory days of the past. As for Third World, the animal now a four year old, will be looking for another dominant performance on the track and according to Quinn all the ingredients are in place for it to be the first locally bred animal to dominate the racing circle in Guyana.
President Hunte hails undisputed kings of Caribbean T20 cricket Gros-Islet, St Lucia – President of the West Indies Cricket Board Dr. Julian Hunte said that Trinidad & Tobago have established themselves as the undisputed kings of Twenty20 cricket in the Caribbean, after their decisive victory over Guyana to take their third Caribbean T20 title. “There can be no question as to who the kings of T20 cricket is in this part of the World,” the WICB President said. “On behalf of the WICB, I would like to congratulate the T&T Red Force captain Denesh Ramdin, his players and support staff for their dominance and eventual triumph in this year’s CT20. Their professionalism, planning and execution were impressive and thoroughly superior and this showed in the eventual result.” Dr. Hunte added: “I wish to also commend the President Azim Bassarath and the Trinidad & Tobago
Cricket Board for having diligently ensured that all plans were in place for the team to be properly prepared for the tournament. “The TTCB had long charted a development plan and we are seeing that their vision and labour are bearing fruit, and we, at the WICB level, have also embarked on a formal strategic plan and we too are beginning to see success come our way.” Dr. Hunte said: “Through the vision and leadership of the TTCB, we have seen the emergence of a cadre of some of the best players in the World in the T20 format coming from the two-island republic, and we look forward to these players dominating in other versions and other players also coming to the fore as both T&T and West Indies cricket move from strength to strength.” This year’s CT20 was played in Trinidad and St. Lucia. and concluded last Sunday with defending
champions T&T playing unbeaten in the tournament to retain the title, when they defeated Guyana by nine wickets. Seven regional teams participated in the marquee WICB regional event. T&T have won the title on three of the four occasions it was played, while Guyana won the first edition in 2010. T&T will represent the West Indies in the Champions League to be played later this year. “We look forward to T&T representing us with pride and energy in the Champions League and they will have the full support of the WICB as usual as they move onto the World stage to compete for what is effectively a World title,” Dr. Hunte concluded. This year’s CT20 was the final edition of the tournament. The Caribbean Premier League, which will be launched later this year, will replace it.