LAHORE: Well-backed horses made a clean sweep to oblige their backers when a card of seven events was decided during the day/night Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday evening.

The 30 100 favourite bay unknown pedigree horse, Umar’s Love, thrice runners-up in as many previous outings, at last won the race to set the pace for the public fancied horses in the opener.

He was followed by even-money favourite bay filly Tera Karam, who edged out gelding Imandar in the second race.

The half-money favourite gelding King Of Murad made it a pillar-to-post success in the third race while in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh races favourites Heart Beat, Dua, Baby Doll and Olympus registered popular victories to the delight of their backers, who returned home merrily.

A 20-minute downpour after the fifth race did not have much effect on the all-weather racecourse and the Lahore Race Club (LRC) stewards resumed the equine action within half-an-hour to go through the entire seven-race card smoothly.

Results:

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII DIV IV-C — 900M:

Umar’s Love (Mohammad Afzal) 8-4, S. Raza 1; Chulbul Pandey 7-10, Sunny Bulbul 2; Great Adla 7-4, Riaz Hussain 3; The Dentist 9-0, Rashid Mahmood 4.

Won by 5 L, 2 L, Short-head. Time 59 seconds. Winner trained by owner.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII-DIV IV-B — 900M:

Tera Karam (Shaharyar Hatim) 9-0, Taimur Hasan 1; Imandar 8-4, Tahir Abbas 2; Preetam 8-4, S. Raza 3; Chal Samney 8-8, Riaz Hussain 4.

Won by 1¼ L, ½ L, 4 L. Time 58 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by owner.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII DIV IV-A — 900M:

King Of Murad (Shahbaz Ali Butt) 8-12, S. Raza 1; Honey The Princess 8-8, Tahir Abbas 2; Buy And Sell 9-0, Alam Sher 3; My Shabnam 8-10, Sunny Babu 4.

Won by 6 L, 3 L, 2 L. Time 57 4/5 second. Winner trained by M. Hanif.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII DIV III & IV — 900M:

Heart Beat (Chaudhry M. Hanif) 8-8, Bilal Ahmed 1; Baby On Board 9-0, Tahir Abbas 2; Show Me 8-6, M. Zeeshan 3; Cute Leeza 8-10, S. Raza 4.

Won by 4 L, 7 L, 1 L. Time 57 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by M. Hanif.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII DIV II & III — 900M:

Dua (Abid Mahmood) 8-0, M. Hanif 1; Lucky Murad 8-8, Bilal Ahmed 2; Kit Kat 7-8, S. Raza 3; Mitchal Stark 7-8, Tahir Abbas 4.

Won by 6 L, 5 L, ½ L. Time 56 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Abdullah.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VII DIV I & II — 900M:

Baby Doll (Ata-ur-Rehman) 9-0, A. Raza 1; Effective 9-0, Bilal Ahmed 2; Mah-e-Doura 8-6, M. Hanif 3; Blue Max 7-10, M. Zeeshan 4.

Won by 5 L, 5 L, Distance. Time 58 seconds. Winner trained by Abdullah.

THE CONFLICT PLATE CLASS VI — 1,000M:

Olympus (Makhdoom Saad Asfandyar Ali) 9-2, M. Wasim Khan 1; Wind Chaser 8-6, Bilal Ahmed 2; Chand Pari 7-8, M. Sajjad 3; Sahil 9-4, Alam Sher 4.

Won by 2 L, 5 L, Distance. Winner trained by Sajid Mahmood.

Published in Dawn, August 4th, 2015

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