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Smith encourages horse owners to examine 'breeding locally'

- says surprise horse in store for August races
Owner of Top Priority Racing Stables, Lesmore Smith, has called on horse owners to explore 'local breeding' options within the Territory. Photo: VINO/File
Champion horse, Good Prospecting, will now be retired and is expected to be used largely for breeding purposes in future. Photo: VINO
Champion horse, Good Prospecting, will now be retired and is expected to be used largely for breeding purposes in future. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Horse Owner, Lesmore Smith, of Top Priority Racing stables recently decided to retire his champion horse, Good Prospecting, but explained that he would not be putting his horse to pasture in the near future.

“He’s staying in the stable,” Smith said, “I’m actually using him for studding purposes based on the bloodline that he has.”

Smith stated that participants of the sport needed to examine breeding locally as each new horse that has to be acquired costs a lot of money.

“If we could get one or two colts out of the good horses that we still have around, then we could start to look at how we can make things happen for ourselves,” Smith said.

He noted that horse owners in St Croix had a good breeding process in place and did an excellent job in that area.

Smith disclosed that a trip is being planned to Puerto Rico in the ‘near future’ to explore means of getting affordable horses to bring for sale to interested persons to develop interest in the sport locally.

He noted that his current focus is on a horse that is being trained in his stables and expressed hope that he would be able to unleash the horse at the upcoming August Tuesday races at Ellis Thomas Downs.

“We’re making great strides,” Smith said of the horse’s progress, “I don’t want to match [the horse] with Really Uptown until the August Festival races.”

He described the horse as an excellent one and said fans of the sport have a surprise in store at the upcoming races. “I want to save something for the rainy day,” he added, “I’m planning to keep that horse at bay until such time.”

11 Responses to “Smith encourages horse owners to examine 'breeding locally'”

  • yea (08/05/2013, 08:08) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    Yes Smithy boy do your thing. It's man like you is who get things done. A lot of big $ men out there with lots of dollars who love the sport and wouldn't try to contribute by purchasing a horse. If it wasn't for you, Letty, and Milage , Lennard, Carl just to name a few I don't know what would of happen to the sport of horse racing. If I had the dollars I would have put 5 new horses on the ground.people can say what they want about you and the 2 time champion but you get things done . I support the in house breeding.
    • dude (08/05/2013, 09:17) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      U clearly have no clue about horse racing locally. Lesmore doesn't know anything about horses, & the horses u think those ppl own are owned by others.

      If Lesmore even cared about horses he would treat them better & listen when the vet talks. The only thing needed to fix our races is better stabling & parimutal betting
  • . (08/05/2013, 09:00) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    No where in the world race horses are bred on hills...we dont have enough flat land for a breeding program.
  • links (08/05/2013, 09:08) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    Lesmore where you get that suit man? Bendown Boutique? Merceh lololmao!!
  • johnny (08/05/2013, 10:01) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    We are breeding young cricketers - soon this place will catch up with the rest of the world and Cricket will be the number one sport. We will soon have that state of the art cricket facility built and will be the envy of the world.
    • Vamp (08/05/2013, 12:44) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      you want to breed cricketers? lmao. boss keep that tantiness to urself.
  • Percy (09/05/2013, 01:20) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    donot worry with lesmore his horses have foot problem so please he talk too much lies


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