 Continue our countdown to the Moutier Mile race day, scheduled for this Saturday at Kymanna Spark. Today, we'll zone in on the unique experience so that patrons and punters are likely to experience. With the Moutier Mile expected to present a majestic horse racing experience, in a minute we'll bring you up to speed with some of the stellar horse racing personalities who are expected to be in attendance. However, for our regional viewers who may be wondering what exactly is the Moutier Mile, it's an event dubbed the richest horse race in the history of the Caribbean. Boasting a substantial purse of US$150,000 or US$22.5 million, the event will be contested over a mile and is restricted to horses, three years old and upward. Joining us to continue our look ahead to Saturday's massive race day is Solomon Sharp, the Executive Chairman of Supreme Ventures Racing and Entertainment Limited. They are the promoters of horse racing in Jamaica. It's a great day to talk to you. I love the Moutier Mile, we know you love the Moutier Mile, Lance is getting his clothes ready for the Moutier Mile and the purse, lots of money. Yeah, big money, big money on offer. Not just the purse for this race, but we have the chairman's plate, we also have the bruise on the loose trophy and as I treat today participating horsemen, we topped up the purses. So the minimum purse that they're racing for on this Saturday is US$1 million. Oh wow, that's... And we have 11 races, so do the math, you know? Yeah, it's a lot of money Solomon and you know, you have to be thankful for your sponsors. I saw of course for the launch when we did the draw, you know, you spoke about the sponsors and I think you know, it's important that you recognize them because when we talk about money without these partnerships, this Moutier Mile will be impossible. Yeah, well we have to really thank the main sponsors, the Moutier family for coming up big. We had to kind of hold them back because they wanted to go a little bit more aggressive and we said, hey, you know, give us some time to grow, you know? We can't... We don't want to go too hard too soon, similar to you don't want to go too hard too soon in this race, you know? But we're very happy. I think the trajectory that we're on right now, we expected to be here on year three. We did expect a foreign horse. We weren't absolutely sure that we would have gotten a foreign jockey because we knew that we're on a very competitive weekend, pretty much opening weekend at Gulf Stream Park. Championship meet, yeah. Yeah, and it's the last big meet at Aqueduct. So with the Cigar Mile and the other stakes races on, we're pretty close to landing in Castellano and he said that he had to work the Bradcox two-year-old and he says, boy, I'm sorry guys. This horse worked too sweet. Now, you don't give up a two-year-old right now because that's a potential Derby or Oaks ride for next year, which we went to Louisiana for Ray Lou Gutierrez. He has the same agent as Julien Le Peru. He wanted to come, but it's the claiming crown at Louisiana down. So we're competing with way bigger money in North America. So Julien Le Peru had a quiet weekend, so to speak, and then he's going to leave Kentucky and he's going to ride in Auckland with Mike Peake, who has sent out four horses to Auckland. So that meet doesn't start until the eighth. He's going to be away from his family. So he's bringing his family for a mini-vacation. So we got lucky, right? Shane Ellis has been hanging out with Daisu Fukumoto and he's like, Shane, you know, vibes, you know, more of a Jamaican. And then here he is. And he has enjoyed it from being here. The Fox crew came in on Monday night and Andy Serling was on a luxury yacht today and fell asleep. And he says, there's nothing greater than this. I'm in paradise watching racing from New York. So he was on his phone watching races at Aqueduct. And then meanwhile the guys are in the studio. They're jealous. But they did two features today on us. The output coverage, yeah. Yeah, America's there at the racing. So things are at us at FIVA pitch and it's just fantastic. So we've ended up, no, in year two, having a bigger international event. So this makes my job a little harder. You have to up the ante next year. But we immediately go back to the drawing board and, you know, set an eye around, do we go on the following weekend and do we get our own weekend now? So we were piggybacking on the on the cigar mile. But, you know, we're the star of the show because it's the cigar mile, then Mute mile closes the show. And then at the chairman's plate live also at two or two. Yeah, you mentioned the Mute family and the gratitude for them being being sponsors. They were owners of the outstanding horse Bruce on the loose, who was a Jamaica bread horse that went to Trinidad and Tobago and won multiple races, multiple track records and so on. So I think our Trinidadians would be looking on that Bruce on the loose race as well because there is an attachment from them on the horse and the family. Yeah, well, John O'Brien, if you're watching, I know I still have an outstanding phone call. I've just been very busy but I'll call you right after this. Yeah. So we are looking for a big day. You mentioned the fact that the Aqueduct coverage will embrace what happens at the Mute mile on Saturday. And that is an advertising dollar that is immeasurable, isn't it? So I spoke to the stakeholders three, four years ago. Yes. I told them that I had a business plan. I told them that we had big things in store. And this is just a part of that delivery. When you're growing a product like this and I was at the Asian racing conference. And so there's Australia there, there's Japanese there, there's a Hong Kong, three big markets. And everybody was there that's lapping up everything that they had to offer. And one of the things that is spoke about was global liquidity. How do you export your product and mop up what there is? So some of these places are lucky that it's house country, in Australia there's a ministry, right? Or a minister of house racing, right? On this portfolio. Specifically, it says horse racing and tourism, right? So we had to look and said, okay, how can we learn from all of this and make it better? And the sirlin spoke about at the draw, he spoke about how fantastic the Jamaican audiences at Aqueduct, how he would love to get them more and more at Saratoga. And we have them all here. I mean, they just have a fraction of what we have here. So we said, you know what? We're going to make the ground floor free and we're going to get everybody in and they're going to have a fantastic time. Yeah, there was a couple of decades ago, Solomon, a move to develop a West Indies Thoroughbred Racing Association because you've just touched on something that I think is very important because when these overseas people, we saw Peter Yellow from Goldstream Park coming to the Caribbean a couple of weeks ago and the sirling you just mentioned from New York and how much he's embracing the Caribbean product. Now today is the 57th anniversary of Barbados' independence and decades ago, the Coxburg Gold Cup, which changed sponsorship to become the Sandilane Barbados Gold Cup, had this kind of feel about it. There were world famous people who converged on Barbados that first Saturday in March for the Gold Cup. Frankie Dettori, Top Jockies that you read about on you see on television. They were right here in the Caribbean. Are we short changing ourselves in what a horse racing product can be for the Caribbean? Obviously I'm seeing the moote mile breaking some ground here, but it just seems to me that this is an untapped industry. Absolutely. So years ago we had a conversation with some guys from Solution and they wanted just that. And we said, yes, we're ready. We want to be a part of it and we're ready to host it. We're not sure with COVID, we stopped our guns. So we're ready. Barbados has added lights. We're potentially looking to add lights as well. And the guys from Trinidad, they want to come, but I'm not sure what's stopping them. TNT's industry is struggling at the moment. So they've only had 12 race meets for the year. They're having one this Saturday, so we're going to be showing our race there. And hopefully this will be the catalyst for us to come together. So we can help them and they don't have to run 100 meets for the year. So what can actually happen? And I'm letting out a little piece of my business plan. We're ready to help them. And they kind of reached out and then they didn't happen, but I'm waiting for a time, but it's so easy because they can structure their race meets, right? And then they'll bring the best crop of their horses or whoever they feel like they should ship. They ship these horses in for our version of Saratoga. So October, November, December, the racing is very rich. So you come, you send your horses for this period. You're going to get a few stakes races. We just made another change to the calendar and the horsemen will be notified shortly. We're moving the Ian Levy from this year to next year. But it's on December 30 to January 1. So we're moving it two days. So when we looked at the calendar, we said, you know what, let's give them a good race to start here with a grade one. Plus it gives them two days to recover. So they're going to go on my island Saturday. It gives them two more days to recover to go eight and a half furlongs because we pretty much want the whole field to come back. Hint, hint, it's on a Monday. And I'm working on some more plans for that. Yeah, well Monday is for the most part a non-competitive TV day because most U.S. tracks don't have racing on a Monday. It's a down day for the big tracks. For the big tracks, yes. And I'll show you a video after with Kendrick Hamou said, hey, I want to come to Jamaica, pool party, blah, blah, blah. So I don't know. All right, let's get back quickly to the Mute mile here, Solomon, because we were talking off here just now. Last year is inaugural staging of the Mute mile. We're a furlong and a half from the finish. About seven or eight horses could have won the event. That's how exciting it was. Excessive force finishing fast on the inside, on the rail with Bev Harvey to get the victory there. And we are anticipating the possibility based on the competitive look of the field that we could have a similar Mute mile here. We're a furlong from home and many horses in with a shot. So usually when we're on six furlongs, you'll get a 22-44 pace. I think this mile race is going to be a 22-44, 1-9. I think they're going to end up in about 1-37. So is it going to be one of those horses staying on at the front? Or will it be one of those horses running on? And when you look on this stellar field, any one of these horses could stay there. They're super fit at the moment. I keep making a joke with the connections of Mahogany boy. He made us have to wear an extra race to qualify. And I'm like, who told you that the horse didn't want to run? Did the horse tell you he didn't want? Maybe this is a tonic that he needs. So when I look on this field, I mean, it can go any which way. Yeah, talk to me about a rough entry, having a stellar career in the U.S. and coming now in Jamaica. And you spoke about the different people coming in. Julian Leperu will be at the helm. But this horse, I think it makes a beautiful story. Oh, yeah, so the better part of the story, this is the first time Rohan Crichton was born and bred in Jamaica, cut his teeth on the back stretch of Jamaica. This is the first time he's had a trainer's license in Jamaica and went to Sadler Horse. Oh, wow. And he was one of those that probably used to go to school in the morning without the race paper in his back pocket. So he's coming back and he has wanted to support this event. He has supported me a lot on this journey. He's given me a lot of advice. And he said, you know, I think we make a lot of good things have not came on us back. And whenever the time comes, I'm going to support you. So he supported us. It has an American, another American owner, but it has another Jamaican owner, Dennis Smith. And they've decided that they're going to support this card, Rohan call Irad Ortiz first and says, Irad, I need you to come and ride this horse because he has won on it before. Because Irad, I need you to come and ride this horse and the cigar mile was Trump's. But since I'm very interested in it, so they're not just coming here to participate. They're coming in here to win. And there's been a lot of rumors on the back stretch because they have a different training style. And over here, they're not running. And it's a whole bunch of fun and games and all the shenanigans with what is going on and who is working well and who doesn't look good. But again, different running styles. When you look at that, Mahogany looked at we know. And then here came everybody else out of the blue. Yeah, there was Duke, the gray horse coming up on the outside to snap second. Duke is also in the race on Saturday. About six or seven of the horses who ran in the Mute mile last year are back this year. But you talk about rough entry. And this is a horse that is coming to Jamaica in the pink of form. He has two wins and four second place finishes in seven starts this year at Goldstream Park in Florida. And his most recent victory, I think coming in September. September, right before shipping. Apart from the fact that he is shipping and there may be an element of acclimatizing and the difference in the race track conditions. But there is every indication that this horse is a high quality horse. And I was a little startled when I checked the race book today to see his morning line odds at 10 to 1. Well, I don't make morning line odds. And the horses don't read race books. No, they don't. So the horse doesn't know what the odds are. Julien Le Peru will be coming to the track on Saturday morning. I don't think he has any interest in reading the race book. And he says, the agent said, boss, where can I get the videos of the horses that I'm riding? So I said, well, you can find rough entry really easy. I said, no, no, no, we watched that one already. So everybody's coming well prepared. That's rough entry. And that kind of looks like, oh, the finish is going to be for the Mute Amal, about six horses across the track. A lot of favorites. The morning line favorite, according to the track and booze book, is Atomica at three to one horse of the year. Five race winning streak at the moment. And disappointed last year, didn't run that well, blew the turn, and finished ninth. Gaira Sobrati told us this week that he is confident that Atomica will run a significantly better race than she ran last year. But think about it. Last year, she had a very tough campaign. Yes. So she had her triple crown, and then she came back. And then she was super fit that he had to put her in a race. She blew them away going six for her lungs. She got roughed up in the gold cup, but she doesn't have that coming in. So he picked her races coming in, and she's coming in super, super, super fit. And a lot of the real birds are telling me that Atomica is a totally different horse this year. A lot of the real birds are telling me she's my destiny is a totally different race horse this year, and how they're training, and like what work was done on this horse, and that horse, and all my really have things that you hear about her. Although she's my destiny is primarily a speed horse. She has already won twice over a mile, which is Saturday's Rich Mute in a good times. So I think maybe six or seven months ago, people were not considering she's my destiny as a top entry for the Mute mile. But in recent months, her performance is including her gold cup victory. Yeah, right here. Running on. Just suggest coming from behind here to color mahogany. A tough mahogany. Yeah, I'll be getting a lot of weight from mahogany. Mahogany carry 126 pounds here, and just didn't hold on. But these two, mahogany on the inside, she's my destiny on the outside, finishing one, two in the gold cup, are expected to be in the frame in the Mute mile on Saturday. Absolutely. And then what we saw with mahogany, when he ran last year, he stopped here. Yes. But right three weeks later, and Ian Levy, they were playing with his mane, and he ran on for the victory. Yes. Well, Salomon, we want to thank you so much for stopping by. I know how good the Mute mile is. And for those of our viewers who has missed it, they don't want to miss this year. No. So we can watch it on Sportsmax, right? Yes. Very much so. If you're not here, you can also watch it on Fox, et cetera. Yeah, and post time will be 445 local time. Sharp. 445 in the Eastern Caribbean, yeah. And we will be on time. Yes. We'll be on time, looking forward. No delays, sharp. Yeah, no delays. Yes. All right, well, let's take a quick break, and we'll be right back.