Trinidad Guardian, Monday, December 19, 1994, page 39
Griffith, Hall dominate in B'dos
Bridgetown,
Cana - CANADIAN-BASED jockey Chris
Griffith and trainer Sean Hall combined
to win both feature races on the ninth day of the Barbados Turf
Club's third racing season at the Garrison Savannah
here Saturday.
The pair won the rich Barbados Juvenile Stakes
with the filly Bonnie Blueflag and returned to
triumph in the Roberts Manufacturing Junior Creole
Championship Stakes with the gelding Sound of
the Sea.
Barbados-born Griffith and Hall
had some nervous moments just before their first win when the
reins on Bonnie Blueflag broke as she was
cantering past the Grandstand.
The horse ran into the rails, uprooting the poles and bending the
aluminum running rail but when the actual 1100-meter race
started, she broke on top of the field with favorite Passionata
in hot pursuit.
Bonnie Blueflag romped clear with two furlongs to go and
went on to win by a comfortable four and a half lengths to
establish a new Classic record of one minute, four and four-fifth
seconds.
Leading Edge was second and Lone Ranger
third while Great Style was fourth.
In the Creole Championship Stakes, Griffith
broke Sound of the Sea smartly from the outside
position and hustled him into an early lead.
They dictated the pace but had to stave off a strong challenge
from Patriot in the last 50 yards. Santa
Barbara was third and Brown Sugar
copped fourth position.
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