LAHORE, Oct 20: Fancied bay colt Desert Dream lived upto his star billing by scoring a brilliant success to lift the Gujrat Cup, the feature event of the Lahore Winter Meeting run over a mile at the Racecourse Sunday.
Ridden by ace-jockey M. Hanif, the 40 to 100 favourite Desert Dream trained by Mohammad Bashir took up the lead after the home stretch and hung on to defeat on-rushing dark-bay colt King Fisher by three-fourth of a length. Gelding Think Thank finished third, a distance away with The Champion, completing the frame.
A race later joint-favourite chestnut colt Son Of A Gun shot like a bullet in the last 100 metres to win the supporting event, the Gojra Plate, a class V event to his liking. He beat the neglected Great Grandy by about six lengths. The fancied colt Bureaucrat failed to endure the gruelling distance of a mile and finished third, half a length further behind with Blu’s Wendy fourth by one-and-a-half lengths.
Results:
NURSERY (NEELUM) PLATE. A term race for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. 1000 Metres:
Freedom Dancer (Hamza Khan) 8-4 A. Aziz 1. Key Guy Love 8-7 Zaheer Choudhry 2. Fair Play 8-4 Aamar Parvez 3. Naseeb 8-7 Shahid Rehman 4. Beat and Dare To Dream.
Won by 1 L, Neck, 3 1/4 L.
Time one minute 2 2/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Amjad Ali (II).
LALA MUSA PLATE CLASS VII DIV IV 1200M:
Mahnoor (Umer Farooq) 8-6 Qamar Zaman 1. Moment To Moment 8-2 Shahid Rehman 2. Dancing Margina 8-5 A. Imran 3. Great King 8-0 Salah-ud-Din (II) 4. Zargar, Blue Stone, Science Fiction, Thank You Dear, Rambo’s Way, Special Dream and Silver City.
Won by 2 1/4 L, 4 L, Neck.
Time one minute 15 3/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar.
LALA MUSA PLATE CLASS VII DIV III 1200M :
Storm Bird (Sohrab Khan) 7-10 A. Aziz 1. Kargil Tiger 8-6 Javed Iqbal 2. Pistol Pete 7-10 M. Hanif 3. Decent Fellow 8-8 Shahid Rehman 4.
Won by 6 L, Neck, Neck.
Time one minute 16 seconds.
Winner trained by Amjad Ali (II).
LALA MUSA PLATE CLASS VII DIV II 1200M:
Red Ransom (Amjad Ali II) 8-1 Aamar Parvez 1. Red Storm 7-10 Shahid Rehman 2. Good Justice 7-10 Qamar Zaman 3. Thunder Storm 8-1 M. Hanif 4.
Won by 3 L, 1 1/4 L, 5 1/4 L.
Time one minute 15 seconds.
Winner trained by the Owner.
GUJRAT CUP CLASS III & IV ONE MILE.
Desert Dream (Asif Qayyum) 7-13 M. Hanif 1. King Fisher 7-12 Aamar Parvez 2. Think Thank 8-0 Shahid Rehman 3. The Champion 8-4 Azeem Pervaiz 4.
Also ran: Half Love.
Won by 3/4 L, Distance, Distance.
Time one minute 40 3/5 seconds.
Winner trained by Mohammad Bashir.
GOJRA PLATE CLASS V ONE MILE.
Son Of A Gun (Mohammad Yaqoob) 9-3 Shahid Rehman 1. Great Grandy 7-10 A. Aziz 2. Bureaucrat 7-12 M. Hanif 3. Blu’s Wendy 9-4 Qamar Zaman 4.
Won by 5 3/4 L, 1/2 L, 1 1/2 L.
Time one minute 42 2/5 seconds.
Winner trained privately by Shakir Hussain.