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LAHORE, Feb 16: Four-year-old bay colt, The Conqueror proved worth his name when he outclassed his six rivals to land the Derby Trials run over 2000m during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

The three to two joint favourite The Conqueror was second behind the leader Raqeeb-i-Azam, a raider from Karachi, in the early part of the race with Red Ransom, Democracy following in the same order. The positions remained unchanged till two furlongs from the winning post when Raqeeb-i-Azam suddenly slowed his pace and his rider held the colt for a while but he picked up again and led the field. In the meantime The Conqueror burst into speed alongwith Red Ransom and both passed the leader to finish in the same order.

The Conqueror won by one-and-a-half lengths from Red Ransom, who spared three and a three-fourth of a length over favourite Raqeeb-i-Azam. Paddock Fancy finished fourth, eight lengths further away. In all seven colts and fillies ran for the event.

Owned by Syed Tasweer Hussain Shah and trained by Sohail Aziz The Conqueror clocked two minutes 9 1/5 seconds over the distance. Sunday’s win has made the colt favourite for the Pakistan Derby to be held early next month. This was the fifth race of the day.

Bay filly Theatre’s Breeze stormed home to win the Bin Qasim Cup, a term race for three-year-old colts and fillies run over 1200 metres.

She beat another bay filly Freedom Dancer by two and three- quarters of a length as she liked. Bay colt Muqaddar finished third another four lengths behind while Blu’s Traveller, a highly reputed bay colt from Karachi made up the frame to a total disappointment of his connections. Only six took the start. Jockey Salah-ud-Din II rode the winner owned by Raja Sher Mohammad Khan, a stud owner from Faisalabad.

Results:

FRONTIER PLATE CLASS IV DIV II 1400M:

Miracle (Zaheer Aslam) 8-10 Azeem Pervaiz 1. Moment To Moment 8-5 Shahid Mustafa 2. Sound Of Music 8-6 Javed Choudhry 3. Hot Spur 9-1 M. Imran 4.

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

Winner trained by Tanveer Aslam.

FRONTIER PLATE CLASS IV DIV I 1400M:

Dizzy Height (Raja Khushbakht-ur-Rehman) 8-8 Salah-ud-Din (II) 1. Trobis 8-0 Faisal 2. Prime Force 7-13 Aamar Parvez 3. Better Case 8-2 Javed Iqbal 4.

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

Time one min 26 2/5 secs.

Winner trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar.

BIN QASIM CUP. A term race for three-year-old colts and fillies 1200 Metres:

Theatre’s Breeze (Raja Sher Mohammad Khan) 8-11 Salah-ud-Din (II) 1. Freedom Dancer 8-11 Aamar Parvez 2. Muqaddar 8-7 Majid Khan 3. Blu’s Traveller 8-7 Ghulam Shabbir (II) 4.

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

Time one min 12 3/5 secs.

Winner trained by Mohammad Bashir.

BEGUM KISHWER ABID HUSSAIN MEMORIAL CUP CLASS V DIV I 1600M:

My Fantasy (Anjum Pervaiz Khan) 8-3 Javed Iqbal 1. Prince Khurrum 8-4 Aamar Parvez 2. Set A Fire 7-8 Azhar Hussain 3. My Own Business 9-0 Faisal Tahir 4.

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

Time one min 42 2/5 secs.

Winner trained by Wali Khan.

DERBY TRIALS. A term race for four-year-old colts and fillies 2000m

The Conqueror (Syed Tasweer Hussain Shah) 9-0 Qamar Zaman 1. Red Ransom 9-0 Aamar Parvez 2. Raqeeb-i-Azam 9-0 Ghulam Shabbir (II) 3. Paddock Fancy 9-0 M. Zeeshan 4.

Won by 1 1/2 L, 3 3/4 L, 8 L.

Time two min 9 1/5 secs.

Winner trained by Sohail Aziz.

BEGUM KISHWER ABID HUSSAIN MEMORIAL CUP CLASS V DIV II 1200M:

Storm Bird (Sohrab Khan) 9-1 Aamar Parvez 1. Flame 7-13 Shahid Mustafa 2. Rukhtas Again 8-10 Javed Choudhry 3. Green Hill 7-4 Javed Iqbal 4.

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

Time one min 12 3/5 secs

Winner trained by Amjad Ali (II).