LAHORE: Punters and turf accountants shared the day’s proceedings evenly when three favourite horses won in a card of six events during the Lahore Summer Meeting at the Racecourse here on Sunday.

The well-backed favourite horses to win were Legend Prince, Baby On Board and Lucky Murad in the first, second and fourth race, respectively while in other events horses on long odds won with public fancies failing to oblige.

In the second race the Lahore Race Club (LRC) stewards took a very right step to warn off riding boy Nawazish Raza who did not allow his mount bay colt Imandar to run on merit to let long shot filly Aie Guriya to win while occupying fourth berth.

However, they took lenient view of the handling by jockey Bilal Ahmed of bay horse Heart Beat in the fourth race and Welcome Puma in the fifth race, both of whom were backed heavily.

Bilal used every tactics not to let his both mounts to run on merit and was lucky to escape the watchful eye of the stewards.

Results:

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VII DIV IV-B — 800M:

Legend Prince (Iqbal Hussain) 9-0, Nawazish Raza 1; Dildar 9-0, Shah Nawaz 2; Accurate Shogun 7-4, S. Raza 3; Chal Samney 9-0, Alam Sher 4. Won by 2 L, 3 L, Short-head. Time 51 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by owner.

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VII DIV IV-A — 800M:

Aie Guriya (Nadeem Mughal) 9-0, Raheel Sabir 1; Lovely Shehzadi 8-12, S. Raza 2; Sana Mere Jan 8-6, Tahir Abbas 3; Imandar 8-4, Nawazish Raza 4. Won by 4 L, ¾ L, 1 L. Time one minute 4 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by M. Shafiq.

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VII DIV III-B — 1,000M:

Baby On Board (Junaid Ahmed Cheema) 8-8, Shakeel Mahmood 1; Kit Kat 8-12, S. Raza 3; Right On The Money 9-0, Alam Sher 3; Tera Karam 8-6, M. Wasim 4. Won by 4 L, ¾ L, 1 L. Time one minute 4 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by Rashid Latif.

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VII DIV III-A — 1,000M:

Lucky Murad (Shahbaz Butt) 8-10, S. Raza 1; King Of Murad 8-8, Aamir Pervez 2; Heart Beat 8-8, Bilal Ahmed 3; Tora Rose 8-2, M. Hanif 4. Won by 4 L, ¾ L, 2 L. Time one minute 3 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by M. Hanif.

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VII DIV I & II — 1,000M:

Royal Boy (Rifaqat Ali) 8-4, M. Hanif 1; Welcome Puma 8-3, Bilal Ahmed 2; Blue Max 8-4, M. Zeeshan 3; Aajiz 8-0, Raheel Sabir 4. Won by 2½ L. 7 L, 9 L. Time one minute 3 1/5 seconds. Winner trained by the owner.

THE LISTEN TO ME PLATE CLASS VI (CLASS V INCLUDED) — 1,000M:

Abbas Prince (Rashid Rasool) 7-10, Tahir Abbas 1; Chand Pari 7-8, Sajjad Hussain 2; Al Fajre 7-8, Tahir Abbas 3; Sahil 8-12, S. Raza 4. Won by 1 L, ¾ L, 1½ L. Time one minute 2 2/5 seconds. Winner trained by Malik Zafar Iqbal.

Published in Dawn, August 10th, 2015

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