LAHORE: The chestnut filly, Special Time clicked on time to score a smooth success in the Ginza Cup run over 1000 metres during the day/night racing at the Racecourse here on Saturday evening..

The 80 to 100 favourite filly proved herself fantastic filly winning in a style clocking one minute 0 3/5 seconds over the race distance. She beat bay mare Unanimous by half-a-length at the finish. Al Fajre and Hidden Passion completed the frame

Owned by Iftikhar Ahmad Sahi Special Time gave trainer Tauqir Ahmad his second victory of the day when earlier he had sent out bay colt Preetam in the opener.

He later saddled bay colt Edgar in the sixth race to register his third win to the great delight of the punters, who made complete sweep when favourite romped home in the seven-race card.

Saturday turned out to be a memorable day for Tauqir, who besides his horses’ fine performance was also exonerated in an inquiry instituted against “unsatisfactory performance” of his colt, No Way on Sept 13.

Lahore Race Club (LRC) veterinarian who examined the colt found No Way’s fetlock swollen, riddled with pain which according to the vet could have affected colt’s running during the race

The best performer of the programme was the chestnut colt, Born To Win Again, who stormed to maiden success for owner Malik Hamid Ali Noon and trainer Haji Abid Mahmood in the last race.

Born To Win Again beat New Tear by five lengths.

Results:

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION IV-B 900M:

Preetam (Najeeb Haider Bagri ) 8-8 Pervez Bhatti 1; Home Child 9-0 Allah Rakha 2; Asim Gee 7-10 Sunny Babu 3; There Is 7-8 Sajjad Hussain 4.

Won by 4 L, 2 L, 5 L. Time: 59 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Tauqir Ahmad.

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION IV-A 900M:

Daud Prince (Choudhry Mohammad Ijaz) 8-10 Shafqat 1; Winning Princess 8-2 Shah Nawaz 2; Mushk-e-Ambar 7-8 Imran Pervez 3; Brave Khan 8-4 Roheel Sabir 4.

Won by 3 ¼ L, 1 L, 6 ¼ L. Time: 57 seconds. Winner trained by Nadeem Raza Khan.

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION III 900M:

Sahil (Mohammad Shafiq Sadiq ) 9-6 Sunny Babu 1; Nikita 8-2 M. Zeeshan 2; Jawad Love 8-8 Shafqat 3; Chal Samney 9-0 Kamran (II) 4.

Won by ½ L, 9 L, 5 L. Time: 56 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Shakir Hussain.

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION I-900M:

Abbas Prince (Rashid Rasool) 8-12 A Raza 1; Zaratj 8-0 Sunny Babu 2; Fist 9-0 M. Zulfiqar 3; Barrister’s Bogie 8-2 Sajjad Hussain 4.

Won by 2 ½ L, Head, 3 L. Time: 55 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Malik Zafar Iqbal.

GINZA CUP, CLASS V (CLASS VI INCLUDED) 1000M:

Special Time (Iftikhar Ahmad Sahi) 9-10 M. Zulfiqar 1; Unanimous 10-0 Omer Saleem 2; Al Fajre 7-12 M. Hanif 3; Hidden Passion 9-6 Ali Raza 4.

Won by ½ L, ½ L, 2 L. Time: One minute 0 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Tauqeer Ahmad.

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VI DIVISION II-1000M:

Edgar (Zaheer Aslam) 7-12 M. Zulfiqar 1; Her Excellency 8-6 Shafqat 2; Sweet Sarrow 8-6 M. Zeeshan 3; Excuse Me 8-2 Pervez Bhatti 4.

Won by 6 L, 3 L, Distance. Time: One minute 1 second. Winner trained by Tauqir Ahmad.

TORA BORA PLATE CLASS VI DIVISION III-1000M.

Born To Win Again (Malik Hamid Ali Noon) 8-12 M. Zulfiqar 1; New Tear 8-6 A. Raza 2; Victory Malik 7-8 Sajajd Hussain 3; Royal Dubai 9-0 Sunny Babu 4.

Won by 5 L, 2 L, 3 L. Time: One minute 2 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Haji Abid Mahmood.

Published in Dawn, September 22nd , 2014