LAHORE, Sept 18: Fancied chestnut gelding, Lucky Murad, lived up to his status of favouritism when he edged out chestnut colt High Fire to win the feature event run over the sprinting distance of 1200m during the 3rd Lahore Winter Meeting at the rain soaked Racecourse in floodlights on Sunday.
The feature event was the class IV division I handicap race, the Barisal Plate, and the fifth in racing order.
Three-year-old colt High Fire ridden by jockey Javed Iqbal adopted runaway tactics and set a hot pace leading all the way to be caught up by the constant chaser Lucky Murad, who collared the front-runner 20 metres from the finishing post.
The following are the results.
CHUNIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV II & III 1200m.
Bird Fly ((M. Ashraf) 8-11 Azhar Hussain 1. Ministry 9-0 Faisal 2. Raad 8-9 M. Atif 3. Morning Star 9-0 S. Ammad 4.
Won by Distance, Short-head, 6 1/2 L. Time one minute 19 1/5 secs.
Winner trained by the owner.
CHUNIAN PLATE CLASS VII DIV 1 1200m.
Babbu The Great (Shahid Pervaiz) 8-1 M. Waseem Khan 1. Fair Boy 9-0 Nazir Ahmad 2. Thinkable 7-10 Shahid Mustafa 7-10 3. Prince Afaq 8-10 Azhar Hussain 4.
Won by 1 L, 1 L, 1 1/2 L. Time one minute 19 1/5 seconds.