October 24, 2002	Thursday	Sha’aban 17,1423

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LAHORE, Oct 23: Riding boy A. Aziz gave a dazzling display of horsemanship when he scored a hat trick during the midweek Lahore Gymkhana races at the Racecourse Wednesday.

A promising rider, Aziz set off on the path to glory, with a half length success on odds-on favourite bay filly Royal Harban in the opener.

He then followed it up with another back to back victory on five to two second favourite bay gelding Goshie The Great in the second race, completing his hat trick with a fluent victory on three to one chance chestnut gelding Copper Fields, who beat fancied bay colt Eastern Bird by two lengths.

Fancied bay colt Cape Town lived up his status of even-money favouritism with a commanding five length victory over the colt Chief Executive in the sixth and feature event of the day.

The joint-favourite bay horse Silver charm finished third another two lengths back while the bay mare Fiji completed the frame among nine runners.

A race earlier 70 to 100 favourite Popeye Well stormed home in the last few strides to knock out the front-running chestnut colt Knock Out on the finishing post. The magic eye of the camera gave a short-head verdict in favour of Popeye Well.

Lucky Bailiff and Weldon Shogun finished third and fourth, respectively.

In the fourth race a mishap paved the way for the victory of bay filly My Fantasy. As the runners turned their heads towards the straight, fancied gelding Irslan was comfortably heading the field and looked a probable winner.

All of a sudden he broke one of his fore legs and had a fall. His rider A.Imran too fell down but luckily escaped unhurt. Irslan was later relieved of his misery.

In the meantime My Fantasy, who was chasing Irslan, crossed the winning post first defeating joint favourite bay colt Bach View by four lengths, who too was badly interfered during the race. My Fantasy was a rank outsider.

Two favourites and two second favourites obliged in a card of six events decided in the afternoon. All events were contested over the sprinting distance of 1200 metres:

Results:

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV VIII 1200M:

Royal Harban (Makhdoomzada Hassan Raza) 9-0 A. Aziz 1. Silver Baby 8-2 Faisal Tahir 2. Shoot To Kill 7-10 M. Jehangir 3. Tulip 7-10 Tahir Ali 4.

Also ran: Silver Sweet, Hot Press, Miss Pecasso, and Jan-e- Mir.

Won by 1/2 L, Distance, 1 3/4 L.

Time one minute 21 2/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Mohammad Afzal.

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV VII 1200M:

Goshie The Great (Basharat Ali) 7-12 A. Aziz 1. Sugar Dady 8-3 M. Jehangir 2. Lado Rani 8-3 Mujahid Ali (II) 3. Blessed 7-10 Qamar Zaman 4.

Also ran: Lucky Ever, Waqar The Great, Raad, Concept Again, Beena Roy Baby, Canopy, Muslim Badger, Sky Man, In The Game, Final Count Down, Super Moon Market and Nijinsky.

Won by 1 1/2 L, 1/2 L, 2 1/2 L.

Time one minute 21 2/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Mohammad Hanif.

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV VI 1200M:

Copper Fields (Mian Abdul Majeed) 8-0 A. Aziz 1. Eastern Bird 9-0 Waqas Sheikh 2. Gently 8-0 Shahid Mustafa 3. Densee 8-10 Zameer 4.

Also ran: Narala, Royal Touch, Las Pal Mas, Aao Payar Se, Wall Street, Easy Come Easy Go, Diva, Yarrow Braw and Grey Matter.

Won by 2 L, 7 3/4 L, 4 1/2 L.

Time one minute 20 2/5 seconds.

Winner trained by the owner.

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV VI 1200M :

My Fantasy (Anjum Pervaiz Khan) 9-1 M. Nasir 1. Bach View 7-13 Mujahid Ali (II) 2. Jehandar 8-5 M. Hanif 3. Fifty Six Fifty Six 8-3 Majid Khan 4.

Also ran: Snow Cool, Super Time, Malook Star, The Warrior, Irslan (Destroyed) and Blue Champion.

Won by 4 L, Head, 1 3/4 L.

Time one minute 21 1/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Akhtar Mir.

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV V (B) 1200M:

Popeye Well (Zaheer Aslam) 7-10 1. Knock Out 7-10 M. Hanif 2. Lucky Bailiff 8-5 A. Aziz 3. Weldon Shogun 7-10 M. Imran 4.

Won by Head, 4 L, 2 1/2 L.

Time one minute 20 seconds.

Winner trained by Tanveer Aslam.

KHARIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV V (A) 1200M:

Cape Town (Syed Iftikhar Ali) 9-0 Shahid Rehman 1. Chief Executive 8-0 Azeem Pervaiz 2. Silver Charm 8-3 M. Hanif 3. Fiji 8-5 M. Imran 4.

Also ran: Naseeb-o-Lal, Royal Man, Russian Pet, Divine Force and Jonty Road.

Won by 5 L, 2 L, 1 1/2 L.

Time one minute 19 4/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Mian Javed.