LAHORE: A six-event card studded with two cup races has been dished out for the15th Lahore Winter Meeting which gets under way here at the Racecourse on Sunday.

In all, 52 runners are taking part in races carded for turf action in the afternoon. Two races will be held over 900 metres, two over 1000 metres and as many over 1400 metres.

The featuring event, the Naseeb Cup, a class VII Division I handicap race, has only seven runners. However, in spite of the tiny field the beauty of it lies in the fact that nearly half a dozen of them are on chance which would make picking the winner a difficult task.

Chestnut colt, Barbarians Charge, bay cloys Amazing Runner and Professor and a well-bred filly Silver Fast looks the pick of the runners to decide about the top honours.

The supporting event, the Khyber Cup, a class VII Division VI event, contains nine runners. It looks an open affair as the field has a mix of in-form and out-of-form horses, who have produced some good performance in the near past.

Meanwhile, race-goers have disliked the raising head of male chauvinism in racing with the denial of opportunity to Alishba Mohsin, the only female rider, and called upon the management to curb the tendency.

Talking to Dawn, racegoers said by sowing the seeds of chauvinism and fanning prejudice the racing mafia was tarnishing the image of genteel sports, which they insisted should be condemned.

Published in Dawn, December 12th, 2021