THE ARIMA Race Club (ARC) signed a historic agreement on Thursday, establishing themselves along with Jamaica’s SVREL/Caymanas Track as the first two Caribbean track and pool operators to participate in the Caribbean Pool.
The Caribbean Pool is a Caribbean inter-island commingling platform that allows for Caribbean tote operators to bet into each other’s pool, thereby creating bigger pools, bigger profits for its member partners and most importantly, bigger payouts to its punters. The Caribbean Pool will also facilitate greater cooperation and participation between the Caribbean Pool operators with the aim of growing local racing both regionally and internationally.
President of ARC, Robert Bernard said, “This is a positive way to end what has been a challenging year for Arima. We have been quietly working on this initiative along with a few others over the past few months. The Caribbean Pool promises to expand our market across the Caribbean significantly increasing our pool size, our payouts and our profits. The Caribbean Pool also gives us exclusive new races which we know will be appreciated by our punters.”
With the two largest regional race tracks on board and an expectation that the Barbados Turf Club will sign on as early as January 2022 and the Royal St Lucia Turf Club joining in as soon as they resume racing, the Caribbean Pool is set to delight Caribbean racing fans.
Founder of the Caribbean Pool, Kimani Robinson of the Kisero Group, said, “Our vision was to create a new and exciting regional simulcast portal that would generate greater returns for the Caribbean track and pool operators as well as their punters.”
[caption id="attachment_931210" align="alignnone" width="799"] Kimani Robinson -[/caption]
Robinson credits ARC’s CEO Ken Ogeer who he said played a significant role in the actualisation of the platform. “Ken knows the inner workings of horse racing as well as anyone I’ve met across the Caribbean. Without Ken’s assistance as well as the chairman of SVL/Caymanas, Gary Peart, the Caribbean Pool would not have been a reality.
Robinson added, “Regional commingling is the future of Caribbean horse racing. A regionally commingled platform will create greater relevance and awareness for the sport which
means greater economic benefits for all. There is no reason the Caribbean Pool shouldn’t replicate for horse racing what West Indies cricket did for regional cricket.”
In terms of awareness, The Caribbean Pool has formed an alliance with the perfect regional media partners, the Caribbean's Home of Champions, SportsMax, who have agreed to become the home of all things Caribbean Pool and Caribbean horse racing.
[caption id="attachment_931211" align="alignnone" width="683"] Gary Peart -[/caption]
SportsMax CEO Nicolas Matthews confirmed that “racing fans will be in for a treat as SportsMax beefs up its Caribbean horse racing coverage via the Caribbean Pool. Given our regional strength especially in the participating Caribbean Pool countries being contemplated and our ambition to prov
