LAHORE: A seven-event card featuring two cup races highlights the 31st Lahore Winter Meeting which gets under way here at the Racecourse on Sunday.

The day’s feature event, the Spring Cup, a term race for three-year-old Pakistani colts and fillies to be contested over 1,600 metres, has six thoroughbreds.

It looks a close battle between two colts — Jim And Tonic and Khokhar One — the latter having an edge on bloodline credibility, as both have won three races each and placed once in six and five outings. This will be the fifth race of the order.

The main supporting event, the Rafique A. Mullick Memorial Cup to be gone over 1,000 metres, has seven runners. Three-year-old bay colt Sir who has gone through a bad patch must be fit for upstaging his rivals in this sixth race of the day.

The seventh and the last race, Tuba Plate Class VII Division I and II to be gone over 1,000 metres, has seven runners with no strong contender making the race an open affair.

The first two races contains thirteen runners each while the third one ten. With no outstanding performers makes it tough for punters to pick winners in these events. The underfoot conditions after two days of downpour in the city makes it more difficult.

The first race starts at 12:00 noon.

Published in Dawn, April 2nd, 2023