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LAHORE, Aug 13: Well-backed bay colt, Love Faisal, stormed home to make amends for his defeat last time out to win the second race during the Lahore Gymkhana races at the Racecourse Tuesday.
Love Faisal, who was badly hooked by his rider Wednesday last, was confidently backed by his connections at half-money favourite.
He defeated chestnut gelding Science Fiction by three-and-a- quarter lengths. Golden Voice and Sugar Dady completed the frame among 15 starters. Love Faisal was ridden by riding boy Shahid Mustafa, who was alerted in advance by the Lahore Race Club (LRC) stewards to ride honestly. The colt clocked the day’s fastest timing of 50 4/5 seconds over the 800 metres.
Chestnut gelding Pistol Pete lived up to his status of favouritism to oblige his backers registering a close win over filly New Valley, in the feature and fifth event of the day. New Valley failed to match Pistol Pete’s strides in the last furlong and was defeated by a neck’s verdict in photo-finish.
Sherganzer and Royal Man completed the board among seven runners left in after the last minute withdrawal of Fly To The Stars. Riding boy Qamar Zaman rode Raja Tehmasab Khan trained Pistol Pete.
Roan gelding, Subzero landed the third race, which looked a made-up affair. Eeven-year-old Subzero came rushing from far behind to beat the chestnut colt Blue Champion by about two lengths. Bay filly My Fantasy finished third while chestnut colt Royal Academy completed the frame.
However fancied mare Madam Lorina put up a dismal show and finished among also ran. The stewards questioned her rider Zulfi and not being satisfied with his explanation warned him off for three months and also stopped entries of Madam Lorina to run in races for the same period. But the jockey of My Fantasy, who played hide and seek with his mount succeeded in staisfying stewards and escaped unscathed.
Long shot Jungle Beat outpaced her seven rivals to win the fourth and supporting event in a handy position. She defeated fancied Track Star, Golden Time and Canopy, who completed the board in the same order.
Another long shot bay mare Silver Sweet won the opener defeating fancied Pappa Jan. Delta Song and Free Lancer finished third and fourth.
Jockey Majid Khan excelled among riders by bringing home a brace of winners. He won the third race on Subzero and the fifth on Jungle Beat.
Following are the results:
JHANG PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION VIII 800 METRES:
Silver Sweet (Choudhry Liaquat Ali) 7-10 M. Zeeshan 1. Pappa Jan 7-10 Mubashar Ali 2. Delta Song 7-13 M. Jehangir 3. Free Lancer 7-10 M. Alam 4.
Also ran: Candle Light, Yasoob Princess, Jan-e-Mir, Silver Baby, Copper Fields, Goshie The Great, Last Love and Grey Tide.
Won by 1 3/4 L, 1 3/4 L, 2 3/4 L.
Time 52 2/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Choudhry Mohammad Rafiq.
JHANG PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION VII 800 METRES:
Love Faisal (Mohammad Naeem Saleem) 8-7 Shahid Mustafa 1. Science Fiction 8-3 Javed Iqbal 2. Golden Voice 8-10 Nazir Ahmad 3. Sugar Dady 7-10 A. Aziz 4.
Also ran: Balal Star, Salman The Great, New Cannon, Final Count Down, Top Gun, Shahzada Saleem, Sweet Talk, Jonty Road, Lex Lugar and Haroon Prince.
Won by 3 1/4 L, 1 L, 1/2 L.
Time 50 4/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Zahid Parvez.
JHANG PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION VI 800 METRES:
Subzero (M. S. Butt) 8-12 Majid Khan 1. Blue Champion 8-1 Azhar Hussain 2. My Fantasy 8-0 Iqbal Khan 3. Defence Academy 9-0 Zahid Ali 4.
Also ran: Prime Force, Power Plus, Madam Lorina, Lucky Grace and Fantastic Cute.
Won by 1 3/4 L, 1 1/2 l, Distance.
Winner trained by Mohammad Hanif.
JHANG PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION VI 800 METRES:
Jungle Beat (Syed T. Kamal Shah) 8-0 Majid Khan 1.Track Star 8-5 A. Imran 2. Golden Time 8-7 Waqas Shah 3. Canopy 8-10 Parvez Bhatty 4.
Also ran: Time To Lead, Fight Again, Never Bend and Star “N” Stripes.
Won by 1 1/4 L, 3 3/4 L, 6 1/2 L.
Time 51 1/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Razzak.
JHANG PLATE CLASS VII DIVISION V 800 METRES:
Pistol Pete (Lt. Col retd: Masood Pervaiz) 9-4 Qamar Zaman 1. New Valley 7-11 Nazir Ahmad 2. Sherganzer 7-10 Majid Khan 3. Royal Man 8-8 Mohsin Ali 4.
Also ran: Much Pleasure, Royal Touch and Faheem Choice.
Won by Neck, 5 L, 1 1/4 L.
Time 51 seconds.
Winner trained by Raja Tehmasab Khan.
