LAHORE: Two Cup races feature in a seven-event card drawn for the 32nd Lahore Winter Meeting which gets under way here at the Racecourse on Sunday.
The Ramadan Cup, a Class VII Division II handicap race to be contested over 1,100 metres, contains eight runners. Of them bay horse Sardar Gee with four straight wins will be attempting to achieve a rare feat of extending his streak to five victories while bay filly Western Lady and bay colt Big Beat will be his main challengers.
This will be the seventh race of the day.
The Malik Ghulam Nabi Memorial cup, a Class VII Division I handicap race to be contested over 1,100 metres, has nine runners. Three-year-old bay colt Sir, who was beaten in his last outing, will be going all out to avenge the defeat. Sir could face a strong challenge from colts Shaman and Mutagil on his way to victory.
The opener, a Class VII lower division handicap event to be contested over 900 metres, has the largest field of 15 runners. The handicapper has tried to make this race competitive in handicap to give an equal chance to majority of the runners.
The second, third, fourth and fifth races have two to four horses on chance.
Meanwhile, the Lahore Race Club (LRC) has notified for the information of all concerned that the 1,88-metre Pakistan Oaks Cup race will be held next month. The LRC management has directed owners/trainers to observe punctuality during Ramazan-ul-Mubarak. In all 69, horses will take part in seven events, with the first race set to start at 12:00pm.
Published in Dawn, April 9th, 2023
