LAHORE: Favourite dark-bay colt Four Char Hai put up an outstanding performance and powered clear of the rivals in the home stretch to win the feature event during the Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.

The Rashid Latif-trained colt owned by Rai Umar Aziz Khan, Four Char Hai foiled a strong challenge from bay colt Socrates in the last 100 metres to maintain a length lead of him at the finishing point.

Bay colt Piyara Saeen ran third another six lengths back with bay colt Mitwa edging the frame among six starters left in the field after the last-minute withdrawal of Sultan-e-Moazzam from the race.

A race earlier the even-money unknown bay colt Real Comm­ando put up a courageous performance to win the supporting event under a powerful ride from Pervez Bhatti.

The winner beat bay filly Minding by a length after a ding-dong duel between the two. Bay filly Poetry finished third a length back with roan filly Aie Swair fourth.

Shortly before the start of the race, a delegation of the donors headed by Tauqeer Dar and consisting of Naeem Qureshi, Shafiq Sadiq and Mohammad Irfan had a meeting with the Lahore Race Club (LRC) chairman retired Lt Col Masud Pervez and put before some suggestions for better working relationship and making the sports more competitive.

The LRC chairman gave a patient hearing and promised to issue a notification to implement the decision reached in a mutual understanding of the issued discussed.

Results:

THE DEAR CREEK PLATE CLASS VII DIV V — 800M:

Malika (Zaheer Ahmed) 8-0, Deenar Mirwani 1; Music Boy 8-0, Sunny Babu 2; Killing Eyes 7-10, Riaz Hussain 3; On The Spot Win 8-4, Shakeel Mahmood 4.

Won by Head, 5 L, 3½ L. Time 0 53 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Salahuddin.

THE DEAR CREEK PLATE CLASS VII DIV V — 800M:

Afzaal Choice (Mohammad Afzaal) 8-6, Sunny Babu 1; Stone Queen 8-8, Ghulam Haider 2; Gambler Boy 9-0, Pervez Bhatti 3; Top Shot 9-0, Deenar Mirwani 4.

Won by 1¼ L, ¾ L, 1¼ L. Time 0-53 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Tanvir Aslam.

THE DEAR CREEK PLATE CLASS VII DIV III & IV — 800M:

OK Dear (Maqsood Butt) 8-8, Deenar Mirwani 1; Power of Dream 8-10, Mohammad Wasim 2; Baa Waqar 8-4, Aftab Chaudhry 3; Zobi The Great 8-10, Mohammad Zulfiqar 4.

Won by Short-Head, Neck, Short-head. Time 0- 52 seconds. Winner trained by Shahzad Ali.

THE DEAR CREEK PLATE CLASS VII DIV II & III — 800M:

Real Commando (Asim Raza) 8-0, Pervez Bhatti 1; Minding 8-2, S. Raza 2; Poetry 8-0, Deenar Mirwani 3; Aie Swair 8-3, Mohammad Sajjad 4.

Won by 1 L, 1¼ L, Distance. Time o-52 3/5 seconds. Winner trained by Tanvir Aslam.

THE DEAR CREEK PLATE CLASS VII DIV I — 800M:

Four Char Hai (Rai Umar Aziz Khan) 8-10, Aftab Chaudhry 1; Socrates 9-0, Ali Raza 2; Piyara Saeen 9-0, Tahir Abbas 3; Mitwa 8-10, Mohammad Zulfikar 4.

Won by 1 L, 6 L, 4 L. Time 0- 51 seconds Winner trained by Rashid Latif.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2018