February 20, 2003	Thursday	Zul Hijjah 18, 1423

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LAHORE, Feb 19: A competitive card of five events has been charted out for the Lahore Gymkhana races to be held on Thursday.

The midweek gymkhana races scheduled for Wednesday were postponed to Thursday due to rain.

The feature and fourth event, the Nowshera Plate class VII division V-A handicap race, has a dozen runners. Of them three come into reckoning. They are: Al Jarrar, Triple M and Morning Bird. By virtue of his facile victory on his previous outing last week the five-year-old grey Al Jarrar has an edge over the others.

The fields in other four races are bigger and packed with form animals, which make winner picking a difficult task for the punters.

The going will be heavy which will suit the runners, who have liking for such a track or those carrying light-weight. In all, 83 runners are to compete in five events, barring last- minute withdrawals.

All events will be contested over the sprinting distance of 1000m. The first race will be held at 2 pm.

Meanwhile the Lahore Race Club (LRC) has announced that the Pakistan Derby 2003 to be held on March 2 will carry a purse of rupees 800,000. The winner will receive rupees 500,000 alongwith a gold cup and the colts and fillies placed second and third will get rupees 200,000 and rupees 100,000. This is a term race for four-year-old Pakistani colts and fillies.

An LRC notification issued here said the winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Gold Cup will get rupees 200,000 in cash while those placed second and third will receive rupees 100,000 and 50000. A handicap race for class I, II & III, will be held on derby day.

The stake-money for the National Breeders Cup will be rupees 125,000, rupees 60000 and rupees 30000 for the winner and the second and third placed, respectively.

The following are the fields and our selections.

NOWSHERA PLATE CLASS VII DIV VII 1000M:

Copper Fields 9-2 Talk Of The Town 9-0 Iram State 9-0 Hot Press 9-0 Lot Of Thanks 9-0 Lovely Diana 8-13 Sajan Black 8-12 Fine Gold 8-12 Gently 8-7 Jehandar 8-7 Tiger’s Wood 8-6 Lucky Super Market 8-6 Madam Lorina 8-3 Delta Song 7-11 Lado Rani 7-11 Easy Come Easy Go 7-9 Silver Baby 7-8 and Silver Sweet 7-4.

Win: Copper Fields. Place: Tiger’s Wood and Easy Come Easy Go.

NOWSHERA PLATE CLASS VII DIV VI 1000M:

Mohni Road 9-3 Bone Crusher 9-1 Free My Heart 9-0 Noor Mahal 9-0 Hunza 9-0 Sun Of Gold 8-10 Naureen-e-Sehar 8-10 Waseem Love 8-9 Track Star 8-5 Ghabra 8-4 Key Guy Princess 8-4 Top Gun 8-1 Fly Over Home 7-13 Khan Bahadur 7-13 Rambo Princess 7-13 Final Count Down 7-11 and Mr Bond 7-10.

Win: Free My Heart. Place: Sun Of Gold and Waseem Love.

NOWSHERA PLATE CLASS VII DIV V B 1000M:

Decent Fellow 9-0 Zuhair Choice 8-13 Morning Noor 8-12 Prince Of Peace 8-12 Faheem Choice 8-8 Two-B 8-4 Strings 8-4 Nature’s Splendour 8-4 Silk Route 8-4 Lady Handsome 8-4 Rajistan 8-4 Lucky Credit Queen 8-4 Easy To Listen 8-3 Fly To The Stars 7-12 Caspian Sea 7-12 All At Sea 7-12 and Win Dancer 7-12.

Win: Silk Route. Place: Decent Fellow and Morning Noor.

NOWSHERA PLATE CLASS VII DIV V A 1000M:

Fair Boy 9-6 Beena Roy Baby 9-0 Polo Gambler 8-12 Triple M 8-11 Blue Stone 8-11 Dancing Margina 8-8 Lucky Dawn 8-8 Thank You Boss 8-7 Venture Maid 8-7 Al Jarrar 8-6 Gold Ribbon 8-3 and Morning Bird 8-2.

Win: Al Jarrar. Place: Triple M and Morning Bird.

NOWSHERA PLATE CLASS VII DIV VIII 1000M:

Super Land 9-4 Rizwan The Great 9-1 Super Moon Light 9-0 Seven Spades 9-0 Rococo 9-0 Blessed 9-0 Royal Arrow 8-12 Power Plus 8-9 Blue Champion 8-7 Raad 7-13 Cranbrook Boy 7-13 King Gondal 7-13 Sweet Touch 7-8 Miss Picasso 7-8 Dunhill 7-4 Grey Tide 7-4 Jan-i-Mir 7-4 and New Cannon 7-4.

Win: Royal Arrow. Place: Raad and Cranbrook Boy.