October 23, 2006	Monday	Ramazan 29, 1427

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LAHORE, Oct 22: Jockeys M. Hanif and Salahuddin II won the riding honours each bringing home a brace of winners during the pre-Eid-ul-Fitr Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

Hanif piloted home bay gelding Welcome Mayla in the second and then followed it up with an easy victory on chestnut filly, Helen Of Troy in the third race.

The veteran rider Salahuddin II rode home chestnut colt Mamula and bay mare Wendy Trace in the in the fourth and fifth race, respectively. The mount of Wendy Trace was in fact a bolt from the blue for he replaced apprentice Atif Javed at the starting gates under the orders of the LRC stewards.

The shapely two-year-old filly, Helen Of Troy, opened her debut winning the Nursery Plate, a term race for two-year-old colts and fillies contested over the sprinting distance of 900m.

This daughter of English sire, Bletch Dancer, came with a perfectly timed challenge under jockey M. Hanif to take the advantage in last 200m and beat Richy Dancer by about five lengths. Aaja Bulbul and Beautiful Baby completed the frame among eleven starters.

The best performer of the day was bay colt, Tuman Khan, who came from behind to win the seventh and last race of the day in a most exciting and close finish. He defeated Trace Kim by three-fourth of a length. Tuman Khan was slow to come out of the gate but jockey Shahid Rehman galvanized him into action by setting a hot pace and overtake front runners and beat them all.

The pre-Eid meeting proved disastrous fro the punters as two favourites and a joint favourite obliged them in a card of seven races. Helen Of Troy and Jut Bahadur were the favourites to win. The biggest upset winner of the day was the bay filly, Miss Rough Rough, who beat short odds favourite, Bachelor by a short head at the finishing post.

Results:

OKARA PLATE CLASS VII DIV II 1000M:

Miss Rough Rough (Faisal Shahzad) 8-2 A. Alam 1. Bachelor 8-6 Azam Hussain 2. Stride To Moment 9-1 Pervez Bhatti 3. Wah Cisco Wah 9-0 M. Hanif 4.

Won by Short-head, 2 L, 3 L. Time one min 4 3/5 secs. Winner trained by Qaiser.

OKARA PLATE CLASS VII DIV I 1000M:

Welcome Mayla ( M. Saleem Malik) 8-6 M. Hanif 1. Tornado 8-8 Aamir Pervez 2. Bad-e-Naseem 9-2 Shahid Mustafa 3. Queen Of Gold 8-2 Azhar Hussain 4.

Won by 2 3/4 L, 2 L, Distance. Time one min 4 secs. Winner trained by Aleemuddin.

RAWALPINDI PLATE 900M:

Helen Of Troy (Agha Nadeem Haider) 8-5 M. Hanif 1. Richy Dancer 8-5 Azhar Hussain 2. Aaja Bulbul 8-5 Atif Javed 3. Beautiful Baby 8-5 Javed Iqbal 4.

Won by 4 3/4 L, 1/2 L, Head. Time 57 4/5 secs. Winner trained by Sohail Aziz.

KASUR PLATE CLASS V DIV II 1100M:

Mamula (Chaudhary Mohammad Riaz) 8-4 Salahuddin II 1. Hallow Dancer 8-12 Azhar Hussain 2. Philosopher 9-2 Shahid Rehman 3. Volcano 8-9 Atif Javed 4.

Won by 9 L, 1 1/2 L, 1 1/2 L. Time one min 8 4/5 secs. Winner trained by Chaudhary Khurrum Hussain.

KASUR PLATE CLASS V DIV I 1100M:

Wendy Trace (Arif Gulzar) 8-10 Salahuddin II 1. Great Murad 8-2 Azam Hussain 2. Jewna 8-2 M. Hanif 3. Safe And Sound 8-10 Nazir Ahmad 4.

Won by 4 1/2 L, 1 3/4 L, Distance. Time one min 9 secs. Winner trained by Rashid Latif.

KHANEWAL PLATE CLASS IV DIV III 1300M:

Jut Bahadur (Amjad Ali Jut) 9-2 Aamir Pervez 1. Ferrari 8-10 Shahid Rehman 2. Fido Dido 8-3 M. Wasim 3. Fidel Castro 8-6 Azhar Hussain 4.

Won by 2 L, 2 1/2 L, distance. Time one min 22 1/5 secs. Winner trained by M.R. Khan.

KHANEWAL PLATE CLASS IV DIV I & II 1300M:

Tuman Khan (Ali Mohammad Al-Shamsi) 8-6 Shahid Rehman 1. Trace Kim 7-8 M. Hanif 2. Nosheen 7-9 A. Rahim 3. Miss Photogenic 8-4 Aamir Pervez 4.

Won by 3/4 L, 6 1/2 L, Distance. Time one min 21 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar.