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| January 19, 2003 | Sunday | Ziqa'ad 15, 1423 |
Fair Play has an edge in Jinnah Cup
LAHORE, Jan 18: The Jinnah Cup, to be run over 1200 metres features the six-event card drawn up for the 19th Lahore Winter Meeting to be held on Sunday.
The Jinnah Cup was instituted in 1996 to pay homage to the Father of Nation. Since then it is an important annual event for three-year-old Pakistani colts and fillies during the Lahore racing calendar.
In the Jinnah Cup, three of the six contenders Muqadar, Fair Play and Theatre’s Breeze come into reckoning on their recent performances this season.
The other three have not shown any form. If any one of them clicks, this will be a great surprise for the backers of form.
Fair Play, a bay filly from Replay out-of-Lust Of Love, owned by Sohrab Khan, has an edge over the rest of the small field. Her main rivals are expected to be the bay colt Muqadar (Dexter-Friends Not Masters) and another bay filly Theatre’s Breeze (Theatre’s Dream-Desert Breeze). Both have won a race each which was not as impressive as that of Fair Play.
The other cup event, the Rohri Cup, a class I, II and III combined handicap race to be contested over a mile seems an open affair on handicap as well as form.
The Conqueror, after his four wins being placed second twice, gets a weight of nine stones two pounds in weight scales. The bay filly Red Storm had in her previous outings shown liking for the mile distance and similar is the case of the blue-roan gelding Millennium Count.
The rest among the field are either badly handicapped or have shown no form in their recent outings. Thus there seems to be no contender edging out over the rest. This makes the race wide open which will be the fifth race of the day.
Blue Dawn and Dizzy Height stand out in the Gojra Plate, a class IV division I handicap race to be contested over a mile. Both should fight it out for this event, the last on the six- event card. The first race will be held at 12.30 pm.
Following are the fields and our selections:
GOJRA PLATE CLASS IV DIV II 1000M:
King Of Hearts 9-0 Schumacher 8-13 Sound Of Music 8-11 Daring Eagle 8-10 Prime Force 8-3 Flood Of Gold 8-0 Snow Line 8-0 Prince Well 8-0 King’s Way 7-9 Dawn 7-9 Dynasty 7-9 Cinderella 7-6 Sun Princess 7-6 and Departure on Time 7-6.
Win: Prime Force. Place: Sound Of Music and Daring Eagle.
GILGIT PLATE CLASS V DIV I DISTANCE 1000M :
Royal Falcon 9-2 Cess Pool 9-0 Silver Charm 9-0 On On 9-0 Miracle 8-4 Moment To Moment 8-1 Storm Bird 8-0 Star Gate 7-11 Flame 7-10 Love Moon 7-8 Persian Bold 7-8 Time Is Gold 7-4 and Chief Executive 7-4.
Win: Miracle. Place: Royal Falcon and Chief Executive.
JINNAH CUP, a term race for three-year-old Pakistani colts and fillies, 1200 Metres:
Muqadar 8-12 Fair Play 8-9 Theatre’s Dream (formerly Desert Lady) 8-9 Ponchi 8-4 Heart’s Beat 8-1 Guy’s And Dolls 8-1.
Win: Fair Play. Place: Muqadar and Theatre’s Breeze.
GILGIT PLATE CLASS V DIV II 1000M :
Al Zarrar 9-0 Rukhtas Again 9-0 Puma Star 9-0 Royal Gunner 8-13 My Fantasy 8-10 Dahis Again 8-9 Mr Wonderful 8-5 Skipper 8-5 Venture Maid 8-4 Thank You Boss 8-4 Decent Fellow 8-0 Set A Fire 7-8 Hot Spell 7-8 Prince Of Peace 7-5 Unbeatable 7-5 and Jonty Road 7-5.
Win: Royal Gunner. Place: Set A Fire and Hot Spell.
ROHRI CUP, CLASS I, II & III 1600M :
King Fisher 11-4 Shah The Great 10-4 Great Grandy 9-10 The Conqueror 9-2 Blu’s Wendy 9-1 Royal Fantasy 8-12 Lucky Shot 7-12 Admiral’s Way 7-6 Red Storm 7-6 and millennium Count 7-4.
Win: Red Storm. Place: Millennium Count and The Conqueror.
GOJRA PLATE CLASS IV DIVISION I 1600M:
Blue Dawn 9-4 Snoopy 9-0 Dizzy Height 8-12 Great King 8-11 Shannel 8-0 Better Case 7-13 Dare To Dream 7-5.
Win: Blue Dawn Versus Dizzy Height.
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