December 15, 2003	Monday	Shawwal 20, 1424

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LAHORE, Dec 14: Fancied bay filly, Canopy, completed a hat trick when she romped home in the fourth race during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

The four-year-old filly from Yasoob Again out-of-Coconino, Canopy shot like a bullet right from the start, two lengths ahead of the field as the race started and was never in danger of even being approached by her 16 rivals.

She beat Lot Of Thanks by about four lengths. This was her third victory in a row after one on Nov 16 and another on Nov 23.

Owned by Zaheer Aslam, Canopy was ridden by jockey Javed Iqbal and trained by I. Nawab.

Jockeys Shahid Rehman and Aamar Parvez shared the day’s riding honours when they rode home three and two winners.

Shahid Rehman rode on Qandhar, Royal Class and Moment Of Love in the second, fifth and seventh race while Aamar Parvez won on Royal Performance and Black House in the third and sixth race, which incidentally was the feature event as well.

Well-backed horses won all the seven events of the day’s card which comprised mostly gymkhana runners.

Bay mare Lovely Diana set the pace for favourite backers in the opener and then favourites came down raining in the subsequent events.

Results:

Talagang Plate Class VII Div V 1200m.

Lovely Diana (Choudhry Muhammad Iqbal) Shahid Mustafa 1. Knock First 8-5 Rehman Ali (II) 2. Muslim Badger 9-1 Qasim Shah 3. Miss Picasso 9-0 M. Hussain 4.

Won by 4 3/4 L, 2 1/4 L, 4 L. Time one min 21 1/5 secs. Winner trained by Iftikhar Ahmad Choudhry.

Talagang Plate Class VII Div IV 1200m.

Qandhar (Rashid Baig) 9-0 Shahid Rehman 1. Wall Street 8-3 Shahid Mustafa 2. Opening Partner 8-10 Rehman Ali (II) 3. All In Favour 8-10 Parvez Bhatty 4.

Won by 5 1/4 L, 1 3/4 L, 4 3/4 L. Time one min 18 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Shakir Hussain.

Talagang Plate Class VII Div III 1200m.

Royal Performance (Muhammad Shafiq) 8-6 Aamar Parvez 1. Velvet Green 8-13 Javed Choudhry 2. Super Choice 8-9 Sardar Ali 3. Rasputin 8-10 Azam Hussain 4.

Won by 7 1/2 L, 6 3/4 L, 5 1/2 L. Time one min 18 3/5 secs. Winner trained by Raja Muhammad Ashraf.

Talagang Plate Class VII Div II 1200m.

Canopy (Zaheer Aslam) 8-4 Javed Iqbal 1. Lot Of Thanks 9-0 Khurrum Sheikh 2. Burrat Again 8-11 Azam Hussain 3. Bach View 9-2 Shahid Rehman 4.

Won by 3 3/4 L, 1 1/4 L, 5 3/4 L. Time one min 18 secs. Winner trained by I. Nawab.

Talagang Plate Class VII Div I (B) 1200m.

Royal Class (Mian Muhammad Sarfraz) 8-13 Shahid Rehman 1. Madam Lorina 8-13 Azam Hussain 2. Strings 8-11 A. Aziz 3. Cue Bid 8-11 Qasim Shah 4.

Won by 5 L, 3 1/2 L, Distance. Time one minute 18 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by Haji Badar.

Talagang Plate Class VII Div I (A) 1200m.

Black House (S. Iftikhar Ali) 9-2 Aamar Parvez 1. Show Counting 8-11 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Kala Shah Kaku 8-4 Javed Choudhry 3. Bone Crusher 9-1 Azam Hussain 4.

Won by 3 3/4 L, 3/4 L, Head. Time one min 17 1/5 secs. Winner trained by Sharafat Ali.

Lalian Plate, a term race for two-year-old colts and fillies (halfbred) 1000m.

Moment Of Love (Pervaiz Iqbal Butt) 8-7 Shahid Rehman 1. Sabina Park 8-4 m. Zeeshan 2. Running Stage 8-7 m. Kashif 3. Photo Flash 8-4 Javed Choudhry 4.

Won by Neck, Distance, Distance. Winner trained by Allah Bakhsh Malik.