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| October 14, 2002 | Monday | Sha'aban 7, 1423 |
King Fisher clinches feature event
LAHORE, Oct 13: The two to one chance King Fisher landed a fine victory to clinch the feature event during the Lahore Winter Meeting at Racecourse Sunday.
Progeny of Dexter out-of-Young Dancer, dark bay colt King Fisher blitz down the home stretch and had an amazing one length to spare over the front-runner and fancied colt Jet Master at the finishing post. At one stage Jet Master (Shahid Rehman up) was leading by four lengths and looked a probable winner.
Bay mare Perfect Timing failed to make any impression and finished third, about five lengths further behind with Blu’s Wendy completing the board, another five lengths away. The winner owned by Sohrab Khan and trained by Amjad Ali II clocked one minute 27 4/5 seconds over 1400 metres under jockey Aamar Parvez. This was sixth and last race of the day.
Long shot bay filly Bold Venture put up a grand performance to register a narrow win in the Rawalpindi Plate, a term race for two-year-old halfbred colts and fillies run over 1000 metres.
The 50 to 100 fancied colt Canwara set a fast pace and led the field till 800 metres. In the final furlong he was challenged by the filly Bold Venture and both were locked in a grim struggle for supremacy. The latter defeated the former by a narrow margin of a head in a thrilling finish. Tripple M and Black Nigeria finished third and fourth. Only four ran for the event.
Roan mare Dilnasheen II ran splendidly to bag the fifth race. After setting a cracking pace the mare never let her rivals to settle down and draw near finally defeating the lone chaser Lucky Shot by One-and-a-half lengths. Asif Love and Fan Tan Tiger made up the frame.
The best performer of the day was the three-year-old bay colt Incognito who toyed with his 13 rivals to win the third race by a big margin of eight lengths handily. Dhandhana, Puma Star and My Own Business finished second, third and fourth, respectively. The winner was ridden by jockey Shahid Rehman.
A race earlier odds-on favourite bay colt Raj Ruks gave a fine display of front-running winning the event comfortably. Trained by Raja Tehmasab Khan, this was colt’s second successive win within two weeks.
Following are the results:
RAWALPINDI PLATE. A TERM RACE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLD COLTS AND FILLIES (HALFBRED). 1000M:
Bold Venture (Fawad Ahmad Cheema) 8-4 Faisal Tahir 1. Canwara 8-7 Qamar Zaman 2. Tripple M 8-7 Salah-ud-Din (II) 3. Black Nigeria 8-7 Nazir Ahmad 4. Only four ran.
Won by Head, 7 L, Distance.
Time one minute 4 seconds. Hafizabad Plate Class VII Div IV 1000m:
Raj Ruks (Choudhry Mushtaq Ahmad) 9-0 Mujahid Ali (II) 1. Zargar 8-1 M. Zeeshan 2. Dancing Margina 8-2 A. Imran 3. Moment To Moment 8-5 M. Jehangir 4.
Won by 2 1/2 L, 1/2 L, 2 1/2 L.
Time one minute 2 seconds.
Winner trained by Raja Tehmasab Khan.
HAFIZABAD PLATE CLASS VII DIV III 1000M:
Incognito (Mohammad Ibrahim) 8-2 Shahid Rehman 1. Dhandhana 8-1 Shahid Mustafa 2. Puma Star 8-0 M. Jehangir 4.
Won by 8 L, Neck, Short-head.
Time one minute 1 1/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Akhtar Mir.
HAFIZABAD PLATE CLASS VII DIV II 1000M
Daring Eagle (M. Shafiq Sadiq) 8-9 M. Zeeshan 1. Red Ransom 8-8 A. Aziz 2. Rukhtas Again 8-11 A. Imran 3. Good Justice 8-11 Mujahid Ali (II) 4.
Won by 1 1/4 L, 1 3/4 L, 5 L.
Time one minute 2 seconds.
Winner trained by Memraiz Khan.
HAFIZABAD PLATE CLASS VII DIV I & II 1400M:
Dilnasheen II (Arif Mahmood Butt) 8-0 A. Aziz 1. Lucky Shot 9-3 Shahid Mustafa 2. Asif Love 7-10 A. Aziz 3. Fan Tan Tiger 7-10 Mubashar Ali 4.
Won by 1 1/2 L, Distance, 3 L.
Time one minute 28 2/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Mohammad Afzal.
BUREWALA PLATE CLASS V 1400M :
King Fisher (Sohrab Khan) 9-0 Aamar Parvez 1. Jet Master 9-0 Shahid Rehman 2. Perfect Timing 8-6 A. Imran 3. Blu’s Wendy 9-6 Khurrum Sheikh 4.
Won by 1 L, 4 3/4 L, 5 L.
Time one minute 27 4/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Amjad Ali II.
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