September 15, 2008	Monday	Ramazan 14, 1429

LAHORE, Sept 14: Fancied bay filly Tinker Bell, stormed home to win the class six handicap race gone over the sprinting distance of 900 metres to make it a two-in-a-row during the second Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

The three-year-old filly owned jointly by Mian Maahir Ahmad/Mahmood Khan and trained by Abdul Rasheed simply crushed her opponents while landing a runaway success with a fast timing of 56 3/5 seconds over the dust track.

The powerful daughter of Bedouin Invader out-of-Nagan, Tinker Bell blitz down the straight chase held by jockey Shahid Rehman with a length to spare over her long chaser, the chestnut Harry Can Run. The gelding, Rough Tough finished third with the grey gelding Blue Fire fourth among the 13 runners.

Midway through the proceeding, the Racecourse district received heavy rains for nearly half-an-hour, wetting the track. But the rain did not deter the race club authorities to go through the remaining races and the whole card was seen through on the wet going.

The feature and the last event, the September cup run over 1,200 metres was won by the four-to-one shot grey filly Lucky Cat, who beat the 30-to-100 favourite colt Cut Throat. Leading all the way, Lucky Cat trained by Haji Fazal Hadi registered a five-lengths’ victory over the much talked about prodigy from a foreign bloodline Cut Throat, who ran hopelessly poor.

Secret Memories and Harry Can View completed the frame among the eight runners.

Only two favourites -- Tinker Bell and Majestic Desert -- won in a card of six events.

Three-year-old filly Majestic Desert, who was beaten on her last Sunday’s over 1,000 metres outing, ran differently in the over 1,100 metres race today. In a scintillating burst of speed, she beat Chinkara by six lengths under the same rider.

The long-shot bay colt Victory Hero, was another long shot for the fourth race but he beat Big Bird by over four lengths while the favourite bay filly Royal Deal finished third.

Red-roan filly So Romantic caused the biggest upset of the day in the second race. The filly owned and trained by Mian Javaid was totally un-backed in the betting ring. She beat another outsider filly Aaja Bulbul by a head in a photo-finish verdict. The favourite bay horse Unter finished third, two lengths further behind. Yet another well-backed filly, Last Option completed the frame.

Results:

JHANG PLATE CLASS VI

DIV III & IV 900M:

Mikado (Syed Jawad Shah) 8-6 Fareed Ali 1; Cash Price 8-2 Ali Raza 2; Pakeeza 9-0 Atif Javed 3 and First Passion 8-2 Alam Sher 4.

Won by 2 L, Neck, 1/2 L. Time 59 2/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Rashid Latif.

JHANG PLATE CLASS VI DIV II 900M:

So Romantic (Mian Javaid) 8-8 Munir Ahmad 1; Aaja Bulbul 8-8 Hamid Raza 2; Unter 8-6 M. Nasir 3 and Last Option 9-0 Khalil Vicky 4.

Won by Head, 2 L, 2 L. Time 59 seconds.

Winner trained by the owner.

JHANG PLATE CLASS VI DIV I 900M:

Tinker Bell (Mian Maahir Ahmad/Mahmood Khan) 9-4 Shahid Rehman 1; Harry Can Run 9-4 A. Imran 2; Rough Tough 8-3 Munir Ahmad 3 and Blue Fire 8-0 M. Jamil 4.

Won by 1 L, 3 L, 8 L. Time 56 3/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Abdul Rasheed.

SAMASATTA PLATE CLASS V

DIV II 1,100M:

Victory Hero (Choudhry Sagheer Ahmad) 8-2 Sajjad Hussain 1; Big Bird 8-6 Shakeel Mahmood 2; Royal Deal 8-12 M. Zeeshan 3 and Bold Act 8-12 Majid Ali 4.

Won by 4 1/2 L, 2 L, 3 3/4 L. Time one minute 10 4/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Mohammad Afzal.

SAMASATTA PLATE CLASS V

DIV I 1,100M:

Majestic Desert (Naseem Ahmad Chohan) 8-10 Aamir Parvaiz 1; Chinkara 8-12 Khalil Vickey 2; Miss Play 9-0 Majid Ali 3 and Dubai Fan 8-0 M. Zeeshan 4.

Won by 6 L, Distanec, Distance. Time one minute 10 2/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Farhan Ashraf.

SEPTEMBER CUP CLASS IV

DIV III 1,200M:

Lucky Cat (Malik Hamid Ali Noon) 9-3 Majd Ali 1; Cut Throat 8-6 Aamir Parvaiz 2; Secret Memories 8-6 Atif Javaid 3 and Harry Can View 8-0 Alam Sher 4.

Won by 5 L, 5 3/4 L, 4 1/2 L. Time one minute 16 3/5 seconds.

Winner trained by Haji Fazal Hadi.