LAHORE: Favourite colt Tufaan produced a magnificent performance to win the 2000 Guineas Of Pakistan, the premier race for three-year-old thoroughbreds run over 1,600 metres, during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the fog-covered Racecourse here on Sunday.

Under a very confident ride from Shahbaz A., the Shahid Rehman-trained son of Irish sire Light Heavy, Tufaan clinched the classic 1,600-metre race for owner Syed Kamal Shah in front of boisterous crowd greeting him on entering the paddock after a facile nine length victory over colt Pakistani Star. This was Tufaan’s fifth success in eight outings to date.

In the supporting feature event, the Christmas Cup, chestnut filly Hash Tag trained by Tauqeer Ahmad and ridden by Aftab Choudhry upstaged bay Silent Animal in the final 50-metre dash to win the top honours.

Punters and bookmakers shared the day’s proceedings on even terms with Haji Abid Mahmood-trained long shot bay horse Well Done Pakistan which caused the biggest upset of the day winning the seventh race while defeating well-backed colts Mathar and Al Firouz.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2022