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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Hello World starts T&T Carnival in Barbados

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Kelvin 'N'
65 days ago
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FILE: Champion jockey Dillon Khelawan stands high as he holds on to the stirrup of his charge to guide the four-year-old Hello World (Poon Tip Stud Farm-owned and trained by John O’Brien) over the finishing line to win First Citizen Cold Cup (GR I) out at Santa Rosa Park, Arima, on Boxing Day last year. Yesterday, the horse won the Grade One Tanglewood Stakes in Barbados.

FILE: Champion jockey Dillon Khelawan stands high as he holds on to the stirrup of his charge to guide the four-year-old Hello World (Poon Tip Stud Farm-owned and trained by John O’Brien) over the finishing line to win First Citizen Cold Cup (GR I) out at Santa Rosa Park, Arima, on Boxing Day last year. Yesterday, the horse won the Grade One Tanglewood Stakes in Barbados.

Ralph Banwarie

T&T was in Car­ni­val mode be­fore the Grade One—XXII Tan­gle­wood Stakes at the Gar­ri­son Sa­van­nah in Bar­ba­dos yes­ter­day when the Sandy Lane Gold Cup Day was be­ing run. But, Hel­lo World gave the cel­e­bra­tions in T&T the green light as the Poon Tip-owned five-year-old won the $70,000 Grade One Tan­gle­wood Stakes over 2,000 me­tres.

The an­nounc­er was speak­ing with per­fec­tion when he said, “Hel­lo World looked like a beast of horse.”

Hel­lo World was sent off as the 7-2 sec­ond favourite be­hind the well-favoured Hur­ri­cane which was made the 6-5 favourite. Cham­pi­on train­er of T&T John O’Brien, who was very con­fi­dent of vic­to­ry, could not have done a bet­ter job with his one-two fin­ish.

When the starter sent the 12-horse field on their way, Queen of The South was the first to show from Danc­ing Prospec­tor with Price­less and Michaal track­ing along with Undis­put­ed and Ares.

At this time, the two T&T hors­es—Hel­lo World and Princess Aruna—oc­cu­pied sev­enth and 12th po­si­tions. Af­ter the first two fur­longs, the po­si­tions re­mained the same and the hors­es were now get­ting set to go past the fin­ish line for the first time.

As the hors­es made their way down the back, Queen of The South still held sway from Danc­ing Prospec­tor as Price­less got close to the lead as Michaal was joined by favourite Hur­ri­cane. Hel­lo World sneaked a lit­tle clos­er as Su­per Mod­el and Undis­put­ed closed with Princess Aruna as they be­gan to close in on the lead­ers.

At the far turn, the An­drew Nunes-trained Queen of The South kept up the pres­sure on Price­less and Danc­ing Prospec­tor as Undis­put­ed made his move to the lead­ers with Ares and Michaal as Dil­lon Khelawan sent the eight-time con­sec­u­tive win­ner to go win his race and he was clos­ing well.

Sud­den­ly, as the hors­es came to the top of the straight, Hel­lo World was in the lead un­der Dil­lon Khelawan. He quick­ly put the move by Undis­put­ed to bed as Ares moved clos­er as Rick­ey Wal­cott brought Princess Aruna through to chal­lenge.

In the fi­nal 200 yards, the on­ly chal­lenger to Hel­lo World was sta­ble­mate Princess Aruna which came with a well-timed run to close on Hel­lo World giv­ing O’Brien his first one-two in the Tan­gle­wood Stakes. What more can you say to O’Brien who has shown just how good a train­er, he is.

In the XX Sandy Lane Spa Sprint over 1,100 me­tres, the Stew­ards Cup win­ner Sneaky Cheeky had a hor­ren­dous run. She broke well from the in­side stall but at the far turn was chopped for rac­ing room and moved from fourth po­si­tion to ninth and her chance was gone. She was backed in­to 4-1 by the tur­fites. The race was won by the An­drew Nunes-trained favourite Re­nais­sance Frol­ic, which is owned by David Seales. Sir Jim­my was sec­ond with David Seales’ Domi­nus and Bren­ner Pass third and fourth, re­spec­tive­ly. Sneaky Cheeky fin­ished ninth. The win­ner’s time was 1:07.2.

In the Sandy Lane Gold Cup over 1,800m, the 5-1 shot Har­row came good for train­er Saffie Joseph Jnr. Con­fi­dent­ly rid­den by Rashid Hugh­es, he pro­duced his horse with three fur­longs to race and quick­ened in­to the lead. He took over from the run­ning on favourite Smokin’ T which stayed on strong­ly to the line but just could not get to the well-rid­den win­ner.

Patrick Hus­bands did his best but it was not good enough. Jer­ry The Nip­per was third and Pub­lic Sec­tor fin­ished fourth in an ex­cit­ing re­new­al.

T&T’s horse The God­dess Nike fin­ished sev­enth at 16-1. How­ev­er, the Car­ni­val has start­ed in Bar­ba­dos and will be go­ing on for a long time in T&T.


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