On day two(Wednes­day) of the meet­ing, the three main races are Prince of Wales’ Stakes (Group 1) over 10 fur­longs for four-year-olds and over, the Duke of Cam­bridge Stakes over one miles for fil­lies and mares, and the Roy­al Hunt Cup over one mile for three-year-olds and over.

Re­cent­ly ap­point­ed women’s se­nior team coach, Welsh­man James Thomas is in T&T to of­fi­cial­ly take up du­ty.

GROS ISLET – For­mer cap­tain Ja­son Hold­er has urged pa­tience with West In­dies’ “in­ex­pe­ri­enced” bat­ting line­up in the wake of the heavy in­nings de­feat against South Africa last week­end, ar­gu­ing they need­ed time to adapt to dif­fer­ent con­di­tions and op­po­si­tions.

Lo­cal ath­letes will still get a chance to qual­i­fy for the up­com­ing Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan de­spite the de­ci­sion by the Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tion of T&T (NAAATT) to not host the Na­tion­al Se­nior Cham­pi­onships due to the on­go­ing coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Head coach Phil Sim­mons has con­ced­ed that the lack of sub­stan­tive open­ing part­ner­ships is be­com­ing a wor­ry, fol­low­ing West In­dies’ chas­ten­ing in­nings and 63-run de­feat to South Africa here last week­end.

T&T’s Gabriel­la Wood, this coun­try’s lone ju­do hope­ful for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics failed to get past her first op­po­nent at the sev­en-day 2021 Ju­do World Cham­pi­onships at the Las­z­lo Papp Bu­dapest Sports Are­na on Sat­ur­day.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Crick­et West In­dies pres­i­dent, Ricky Sker­ritt, has de­scribed leg­ends Desmond Haynes and Sir Learie Con­stan­tine as “ex­em­plars” of the game af­ter the pair were in­duct­ed in­to the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s Hall of Fame.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Head coach Phil Sim­mons has de­fend­ed West In­dies’ prepa­ra­tion for the open­ing Test fol­low­ing their crush­ing in­nings de­feat in­side 2-½ days on Sat­ur­day, but said they now need­ed to raise their in­ten­si­ty and re­bound strong­ly in the sec­ond Test be­gin­ning here next week.

Af­ter spring­ing to a sil­ver medal in the Women's Long Jump event on Thurs­day, T&T's top hep­tath­lete, Tyra Git­tens claimed the over­all win in the Women's Hep­tathlon when the cur­tains came down on the Na­tion­al Col­le­giate Ath­let­ic As­so­ci­a­tion (NCAA) Di­vi­sion I Out­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Eu­gene, Ore­gon, USA on Sat­ur­day night.

On Sat­ur­day, Trinidad and To­ba­go joined coun­tries around the world to ob­serve World Day Against Child Labour with the theme: ACT Now: End Child Labour. Across the globe in­clu­sive of Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, Child Labour pos­es a tremen­dous threat to the lives of chil­dren. The In­ter­na­tion­al Labour Or­gan­i­sa­tion (ILO) has stat­ed that the num­ber of chil­dren in Child Labour has in­creased to 160 mil­lion world­wide rep­re­sent­ing an in­crease of 8.4 mil­lion chil­dren in the last four (4) years. There is no gain­say­ing that the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic has played a sig­nif­i­cant role in ex­ac­er­bat­ing con­di­tions that give rise to child labour in many coun­tries es­pe­cial­ly low-in­come economies.

GROS ISLET, St Lu­cia – Kraigg Brath­waite has pushed back on sug­ges­tions the ab­sence of bat­ting coach Mon­ty De­sai played a role in West In­dies’ ca­pit­u­la­tion in both in­nings of the open­ing Test against South Africa.

The FI­FA ap­point­ed Nor­mal­i­sa­tion Com­mit­tee (NC) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) has ap­point­ed An­gus Eve on Sun­day as In­ter­im head coach of the T&T se­nior men's team ahead of the Con­ca­caf Gold Cup Pre­lim­i­nary Round which takes place next month.