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Horse racing dates for 2024 announced
…Guyana Cup carded for August 11
Kaieteur Sports – The date is out for this year’s Guyana Cup. It will be held on Sunday, August 11, 2024 at the Rising Sun Turf Club, West Coast Berbice.
Guyana Cup is the biggest horse racing event in this country’s racing calendar and it is arguably the second biggest sporting event behind the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which the Guyana Amazon Warriors won last August, beating Trinidad & Tobago’s Knight Riders at Providence, Guyana.
The Guyana Cup is the feature event for horse racing and is scheduled to be held on August 11 at the Rising Sun Turf Club.
This year’s CPL will start on August 17 – six days after the running of the Guyana Cup, and the final is scheduled to be played on September 25 in Georgetown, Guyana.
Additionally, there will be 12 horse race days for this year. It has been shared amongst three race tracks. Rising Sun Turf Club (RSTC) will have six days, Port Mourant Turf Club will have four days, and two days have been allocated to the Kennard Memorial Turf Club, Bush Lot Corentyne Berbice.
List of race days for the 2024 racing season
January 28 – Rising Sun
February 25 – Rising Sun, Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee
March 17 – Corentyne, Bush Lot, Judge Kennard
March 31 – Port Mourant
April 28 – Rising Sun, Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee
May 26 – Port Mourant
July 1st – Port Mourant,
August 11 – Guyana Cup, Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee Rising Sun
September 29 – Rising Sun, Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee
October 30 – Rising Sun, Fazal
November 24 – Port Mourant
December 26 – To be announced
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