The Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup race day is set to be aired on the Caribbean’s biggest sports cable channel next month.SportsMax is on the verge of a historic broadcast agreement with the Barbados Turf Club (BTC) and the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc (BTMI), which will see the region’s most prestigious horse racing event being viewed by its largest ever audience.The 40th running of the Gold Cup is scheduled for Saturday, March 4, at the Garrison Savannah and chief executive officer of the BTC Rosette Peirce told Barbados TODAY the broadcast deal with the Jamaica-based sports channel was close to completion.“We are working right now to have SportsMax onboard to carry the Gold Cup through the region and that would have a huge impact on CARICOM and movement around the Caribbean. I haven’t signed on the dotted line as yet, but I can say that I’m 99 per cent sure that SportsMax and BTMI will join us this year for broadcast rights,” Peirce said in an exclusive interview.