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| May 30, 2006 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 2, 1427 |
Favourites flop
LAHORE, May 29: Fancied horses flopped in five out of six events during the Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday. The only favourite to win was bay filly Top Cat, who beat Zargar by a length in the fourth race.
The favourites rout began from the first race when three to two second favourite Royal Palace outpaced outsider Madam Lorina to win by half-a-length.
Princess Afaq finished third a neck behind while favourite Lovely Diana was nosed out to fourth position.
Bay filly Daisy Against All, won the second race defeating Rana Choice by six lengths. Favourite Eye Of Tiger finished a close third.
Yet another long shot Wendy Trace romped home an easy winner in the third event. The five-year-old mare beat second favourite Jewna by a distance.
The odds-on favourite Token Of Love finished off the frame. Soon after the race, it was announced that the LRC have initiated an enquiry into the running of Token Of Love and stopped colt's entries in races till the outcome of inquiry.
In the fifth and supporting event favourite, Fido Dido, missed the jump at the start and trailed the field. He could manage to touch the board finally. Long shot Royal Fantasy won the race beating Miss Photogenic.
Five to two chance Miss Pole in a front-running display made every post a winning one to finally spare one-and-a-half lengths over odds-on favourite Empire Maker in the feature event frustrating the hopes of favourite backers.
Highlight of the day was a double by trainer Haji Fazal Hadi, who sent out Royal Palace and Royal Fantasy, both owned by Makhdoom Syed Ali Raza.
Results.
Jallo Plate Class VII Division II 800M.
Royal Palace (Makhdoom Syed Ali Raza) 7-8 Azhar Hussain 1. Madam Lorina 8-3 Ali Raza 2. Princess Afaq 9-0 M. Zeeshan 3. Lovely Diana 7-13 Shahid Mustafa 4.
Won by 1/2 L, Neck, Neck. Time 51 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Haji Fazal Hadi.
Jallo Plate class VII Division I 800M.
Daisy Against All (Rafaqat Ali) 8-5 Rehman Ali (II) 1. Rana Choice 8-7 Faisal Tahir 2. Eye Of The Tiger 9-1 M. Hanif 3. Shaba Queen 8-11 Nooman Parvaiz 4.
Won by 6 L, Head, 4 L. Time 50 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by M. Abbas.
Faisalabad Plate Class V Division II 1000M.
Wendy Trace (Arif Gulzar) 8-0 Atif Javaid 1. Jewna 8-2 M. Hanif 2. Bad-I-Naseem 8-6 Azhar Hussain 3. Black Leopard 8-3 Sajjad Hussain 4.
Won by Distance, 6 L, 7 L. Time one minute 4 seconds. Winner trained by Khushnood-ur-Rehman.
Faisalabad Plate Class V Division I 1000M.
Top Cat (Hamza Khan) 8-9 Salahuddin II 1. Zargar 8-10 Azhar Hussain 2. Scarlet Empress 8-2 Pervaiz Bhatti 3. Royal Command 8-10 Vicky Gaman IV.
Won by 1 L, Distance 2 L. Time one minute 3 3/5.
Winner trained by Amjad Ali II.
Hyderabad Plate Class IV Division II & III 1200M.
Royal Fantasy (Makhdoom Syed Ali Raza) 7-8 M. Zeeshan 1. Miss Photogenic 8-3. Shahid Rehman 2. Eid 7-6 Azhar hussain 3. Fido Dido 7-10 M. Hanif 4.
Won by 1/2 L, 5 1/2 L, 3/4 L. Time one minute 15 4/5 seconds. Winner trained by Haji Fazal Hadi.
Hyderabad Plate class IV Division I 1200M.
Miss Pole (K. A. Ahmad) 8-2 M. Hanif 1. Empire Maker 8-6 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Stereo Nation 7-12 Sajjad Hussain 3. Who Dares 9-0 Shahid Rehman 4.
Won by i/1 L, Distance, 2 L. Time one minute 15 4/5 seconds. Winner trained by Khurrum Hussain.
Polo player buys Naseeb
The invincible Naseeb who won the honours of being the biggest-ever money spinner at the Lahore Racecourse will now be seen in action at the Lahore Polo Club ground.
This son of Sheikh Albadoo, Naseeb, from the bloodline of English sire Green Desert-Danzig, after a distinguished career in racing was put to stud duty last year by his owner Malik Hamid Ali Noon.
He was mated with six mares but all remained infertile.
Later it transpired he is inflicted with infertility because of some abdominal defect during nurstling and is unable of becoming a progenitor.
Malik Noon told Dawn that he was left with no option but to sell the horse to a well-known polo player.
Naseeb has to his credit of having won rupees 1.7 million in stake-money, the highest-ever won by a horse singularly in Lahore.
He won six races in-a-row including the Pakistan Derby 2004 and Eclipse Stakes Of Pakistan and remained unbeaten.
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