November 26, 2007	Monday	Ziqa’ad 15, 1428

LAHORE, Nov 25: In a most promising performance, the fancied colt Janu Manu, duly landed the Dewan Petroleum Cup when he ran over 1,200m before a cheering crowd during the 13th Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

Off to a flying start, Janu Manu was neck in neck for a while with the filly Discovery, who then buckled under pressure, to take the lead. Janu Manu’s fantastic finish gave him an impressive nine lengths’ win against Discovery. Janu Manu, which is owned by Khalid Malik, is showing great promise to shape up into the stables ace card in the on-going winter meetings. This was Janu Manu’s third win in a row.

The colt Motivator and the bay Intikhab-i-Bhakkar completed the frame among the eight starters. Trained by Azhar Ali the colt was ridden by M. Waseem Khan.

Earlier in the fourth race, the bay filly Bold Act won the Khalid Bin Waleed Cup contested over 1,300m. Doing all the running and staying on well, she beat Lucky Cat by a distance in vivid contrast to her last week’s performance when she was beaten to third place behind Reborn and Miss Play in the over 1,200m race. Iconic and Mirana Choice finished third and fourth, respectively.

Two-year-old colt Cut Throat proved to be a speedy juvenile sprinter when he won the Nursery Plate in the over 1,000m race for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies, yet maidens.

Ridden well by jockey M. Hanif, he beat filly Dixie by three lengths. Armaan finished third with My Delilah ending up fourth. Eleven ran after the last-minute withdrawal of Heaven’s Heart. Syed Tasweer Hussain’s colt was trained by Sohail Aziz.

The three-year-old fancied colt Extravagant, ridden with ease by jockey M. Zeeshan, pipped Shah Pari at the finishing line with Sohna Billoo third. Owned by Javaid Khalid, the colt was eased by Zeeshan before crossing the finishing post but to the good luck of his backers, he won by a head. Otherwise his jockey’s overconfidence would have cost the race.

Trainer Sohail Aziz kept his march on top of the trainers’ statistics table, registering a double through Cut Throat and Shim Jim, winning the second and third race, respectively.

Jockey M. Zeeshan brought in a brace of winners. He piloted Extravagant in the opener and Shim Jim in the third race. Of sixes was won by four favourites.

Results:

PATTOKI PLATE CLASS VI DIV I 1000M:

Extravagant (Javaid Khalid) 9-0 M. Zeeshan 1, Shah Pari 8-6 Naseer Ahmad 2, Sohna Billoo 9-0 Javed Khalid 3 and Striker 8-10 Irfan Razaq 4.

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

KHUSHAB PLATE, A TERM RACE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLD THOROUGHBRED COLTS AND FILLIES,

MAIDENS, 1000M.

Cut Throat (Syed Tasweer Hussain Shah) 8-8 M. Hanif 1, Dixie 8-9 Aamir Parvaiz 2, Armaan 8-8 M. Zeeshan 3 and My Delilah 8-5 M. Waseem Khan 4.

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

KHALID BIN WALEED PLATE CLASS V DIV II 1300M.

Shim Jim (Farrukh Shahzad Malik) 8-8 M. Zeeshan 1, Rough Tough 8-6 Ali Raza 2, Legend Setter 8-10 M. Hanif 3 and Mannan Prince 8-9 M. Akram 4.

Won by 5 L, 2 1/2 L, Neck. Time one min 23 4/5 secs. Winner trained by Sohail Aziz.

KHALID BIN WALEED CUP CLASS V DIV I 1300M.

Bold Act (Hamza Khan) 9-0 Pervaiz Bhatty 1, Lucky Cat 7-10 M. Zeeshan 2, Iconic 8-6 M. Hanif 3 and Mirana Choice 8-8 Javed Iqbal 4.

Won by Distance, 3/4 L, 1 L. Time one min 22 1/5 secs. Winner trained by Abdul Majeed Mian).

DEWAN PETROLEUM CUP CLASS IV & III 1200M.

Janu Manu (Khalid Malik) 8-12 M. Waseem Khan 1, Discovery 8-0 M. Zeeshan 2, Motivator 8-0 Javed Iqbal 3 and Intikhab-e-Bhakkar 7-10 M. Hanif 4.

Won by 9 L, 7 L, 2 L. Time one min 12 2/5 secs. Winner trained by Azhar Ali.

DEWAN PETROLEUM PLATE CLASS IV

DIVISION III 1200M.

Mythical (Sohrab Khan) 8-6 Aamir Parvaiz 1, Chanela 8-3 M. Zeeshan 2, Herry Can View 8-10 Hidayat Hussain 3 and Perfect promise 8-10 M. Atif 4.

Won by 3 3/4 L, Head, 7 L. Time one min 15 secs. Winner trained by Mian Abdul Majeed.