LAHORE, Nov 30: Fancied chestnut English filly, Aegean Daisy, produced a good burst of speed in the straight to win as the Eid Cup run over 1600m during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.

Owned by Mohammad Umar Butt and trained by Mohammad Bashir four-year-old filly, Aegean Daisy was confidently ridden by jockey M. Zeeshan.

Aegean Daisy was lying fourth behind Royal Falcon, Millennium Count and Think Thank in the early part of the race. In the straight jockey M. Zeeshan charged her and she lengthened away nicely to win the cup with the jockey holding on safely home, seven-and-a-half lengths ahead of bay colt Royal Falcon.

 Bay gelding Think Thank finished third over four lengths further behind after edging out blue-roan gelding Millennium Count to fourth position to complete the frame.

In all, ten ran for the event after the last-minute withdrawal of Legality.

Aegean Daisy clocked one min 41 2/5 secs over the 1600m distance.

This was the sixth race of the day.

A race later bay English filly, Pretty Pekan lived upto her star billing when she outpaced her 16 rivals to win the Jamrud Cup run over 1600 metres.

Ridden by jockey Shahid Rehman this daughter of classic English sire Sri Pekan, Pretty Pekan came from almost last to lead the big field of 16. She beat the bay colt Tora Bora by two lengths easily.

 Her stable companion Muqaddar running under a leisure rider Arshad finished third, another three lengths behind with Amazing completing the board, four lengths away.

Owned by Malik Hamid Ali Noon Pretty Pekan is trained by Haji Fazal Hadi.

Jockey Javed Choudhry stole the limelights of the day’s racing when he rode home three winners. He first romped home on three to win chance Final Count Down in the second race and then sailed in long shot Nijinsky in the fourth race. He completed his treble by riding home Lucky Dawn in the fifth race. Final Count Down and Lucky Dawn gave a fine double to trainer I. Nawab.

Four favourites obliged the punters when a card of seven events was gone through before a moderate crowd. They were Al trui Princess, Lucky Dawn, Aegean Daisy and Pretty Pekan in the third, fifth, sixth and seventh and last race. They all won their respective events easily. The other three events were bagged by long shots to make the afternoon proceedings almost even.

Results.

Kotri Plate Class VII Div IV 1000m.

Super Choice (Choudhry Mohammad Afzal) 7-8 Sardar Ali 1. Top Gun 8-9 Anjum 2. Opening Partner 8-4 Rehman Ali (II) 3. Malook Star 8-0 Azam Hussain 4.

Won by 1 1/2 L, Neck, 1/2 L. Time one min 4 4/5 secs. Winner trained by Raja Tehmasab Khan.

Kotri Plate Class VII Div III 1000m.

Final Count Down (K. A. Ahmad) 8-0 Javed Choudhry 1. Velvet Green 8-9 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Golden Heart 8-10 M. Kashif 3. Asif Choice 8-6 A. Aziz 4.

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

Kotri Plate Class VII Div II 1000m.

Al Trui Princess (Makhdoomzada Syed Ali Raza) 8-10 A. Aziz 1. Thank You Boss 9-1 Qasim Shah 2. Meri Kajal 7-12 Javed Choudhry 3. Royal Class 9-1 Khurrum Sheikh 4.

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

Kotri Plate Class VII Div V 1000m.

Nijinsky (Mohammad Iqbal Choudhry 7-4 Javaid Choudhry 1. Silver Baby 9-1 Waqas Sheikh 2. Tulip 7-4 A. Aziz 3. Blue Champion 8-1 Azhar Hussain 4.

Won by 6 1/2 L, Short-head, 1 1/4 L. Time one min 5 3/5 secs. Winner trained by Mohammad Afzal.

Jhelum Plate Class V Div I & II 1400m.

Lucky Dawn (Sheikh Yaqoob) 7-13 Javed Choudhry 1. On On 8-7 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Storm Bird 8-10 Shahid Mustafa 3. Green Hill 7-10 A. Aziz 4.

Won by 5 L, 1 L, 1 1/2 L. Time one min 29 3/5 secs . Winner trained by I. Nawab.

Eid Cup Class I, II & III 1600Mm

Aegean Daisy (Mohammad Umar Butt) 8-0 M. Zeeshan 1. Royal Falcon 8-6 Qasim Shah 2. Think Thank 8-6 Khurrum Sheikh 3. Millennium Count 8-8 Aamar Parvez 4.

Won by 7 1/2 L, 4 1/4 L, Neck. Time one minute 41 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Mohammad Bashir.

Jamrud Cup Class IV Div I & II 1600m.

Pretty Pekan (Malik Hamid Ali Noon) 9-4 Shahid Rehman 1. Tora Bora 9-0 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Muqaddar 8-13 Arshad 3. Amazing 9-0 Shahzad Iqbal 4.

Won by 2 L, 3 L, $ L. Time one min 43 secs. Winner trained by Haji Fazal Hadi.