LAHORE: A small card of five events featuring one cup race awaits race-goers when the day/night Lahore Summer Meeting gets under way at the Racecourse in ideal conditions following record rains in the metropolis during the week.

Though the weather has changed significantly from hot to humid and now slightly airy, the owners of high-priced thoroughbreds are still reluctant to run their best horses. In all, 44 runners are in the field for five races.

In the main event, the Punjab Cup which is a Class VII Division I (Class VI Division IV included) race to be gone over 1,100 metres, nine runners mostly thoroughbreds from the country’s best sires bloodlines make the field in which the quartet of Sword Of Fateh, Barbarians Charge, Sanwli Saloni and Silent Assassin are on chance. It is the fourth race of the day

The supporting feature event, the Naran Plate Class VII Division II and III to be contested over 1,100 metres which will wrap up the day’s action, has seven runners. Bay gelding Sehar, who won a fighting race last Sunday, is likely to face a stiff challenge from low placed Gul-e-Measam and Queen’s Gambit for the top honours.

The first race starts at 6:00pm.

Published in Dawn, July 24th, 2022