Exciting day of races promised at Kennard horserace Meeting

Aug 04, 2010 Sports

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The Kennard Memorial Turf Club (KMTC) has become synonymous, not only with horserace events, but with excitement and quality. Indeed there is never a dull moment whenever such animals as Sequin, World Class, Little Panie, Alphabet, Jumbo Joy and Laura Lee in Flight are all in action.
Well, the administrators of the KMTC have completed the logistics and on Sunday August 15 next, horserace lovers would be treated to another spectacular event at the KMTC Bush Lot Farm Corentyne facilities.
Seven exciting races are carded for the day with the feature attraction being the B and Lower event over one mile. The winner will cart off five hundred thousand dollars while the runner up rides off with half that amount. The third and fourth place finishers are guaranteed $125,000 and $63,000 respectively.
The excitement continues with the one mile event for three year olds. The first place finisher gallops off with $350,000, one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars more than the second place finisher. The third and fourth place finishers are guaranteed $87,500 and $44,000 respectively.
The other races that comprise the day’s programme are F and Lower class as well as the 2 years old open, over a distance of 6 furlongs and 5 furlongs respectively. These two races would attract animals that are local, as well as Caribbean bred and this should add to the excitement.
Turfites could look forward to improved action especially since jockeys would be competing under improved track conditions complimented by a qualitative stable of well-bred animals.  Some of the other animals expected to add to the excitement are Annie’s Playmate, Sweet Sudden Charm and Jade (American bred) while locally bred horses include Balagie, Pinch de Cash, Sharkira and Jumbo Joy.
With such a lucrative lineup, organizers are encouraging horserace lovers to come early and be a part of the action.
Meanwhile, as per usual, the event is being conducted under the rules of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority (GHRA) and all of those rules would be employed.
The registration period end on Saturday August 7 and horse owners can register their animals with Dr Dwight Waldron (645-2848, 625-0100 or 220-6557), Justice Cecil Kennard (226-1399, 225-4818, or 623-7609) or Roopnarine Matadial aka Shine (325-3192).
Horse owners are also asked to have their animals examined by the vet by 11:00hrs on race day.
The champion jockey receives the Trophy Stall/Neville Sunich Memorial trophy while the runners up will also receive lucrative incentives.
The sponsors are Demerara Distillers Ltd, Digicel, International Pharmaceutical Agency, New GPC, Gobin Agriculture Spares Centre, Buddy Tulshi, Courts, Hand in Hand Insurance, Sankar Auto Works and Mohamed’s Enterprise.
(Michael Benjamin)

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Lindeners may be omitted from national b/ball team

– Hamid tells Cadogan “to do what he has to do”

By Edison Jefford
For the first time, perhaps, in the history of local basketball, the town that usually produces some of the best fundamental players, Linden, may not have a representative on the national basketball team following the players’ nonchalant reaction to practice sessions.
Senior Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) Vice-President, Floyd Levi told Kaieteur Sport on Monday that the national male senior team was identified but the federation is not ready to release it to the media because of some “fine-tuning” to be done.

That apparent fine-tuning had to do with the fact that those who proposed the team were unable to see the best players in Linden during the tryouts because they had not attended, and the GABF was intent on giving them a fair opportunity to be represented.
National Coach, Robert Cadogan had indicated, also on Monday, that he does not know why the Linden-based players were not attending the sessions. He said he is prepared to work with those players who have consistently shown the necessary commitment.
The absence of the Linden players on the national male team might be a reality for the upcoming International Series where Guyana will play four teams including the Washington D.C Jammers, Antigua and Barbuda, New York All-Stars and South Carolina All-Stars.
President of the Linden Amateur Basketball Association (LABA), GABF Technical Director and Assistant National Coach, Abdulla Hamid told this newspaper yesterday that he expressed regret over Linden players’ attitude toward the sessions, but they must go on.
“The Linden players are just not going to the practice. I spoke with Bobby (Cadogan) and I told him that it seem as though the Linden players have no interest. I said I will assist him, but we can no longer wait on them. We have to go ahead,” Hamid indicated.
“I told Bobby to do what he has to do because I’ve spoken to every player and they know what is required of them for the sessions,” he informed, adding that he had arranged for them to travel to Georgetown with him on Saturday, but only two players turned up.
The GABF “fine-tuning” of the national team will disclose the fate of the Linden players. As it is now, it seems as though Coaches, Cadogan and Hamid are taking a firm stand as it relates to the practice sessions that all the senior Linden players ignored.

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Dr Anthony praise T20 champions

Minister of Culture Youth and Sports Dr Frank Anthony has praised the Guyana senior cricket team for the win in the West Indies Twenty20 championship.
Here in the full text of Dr Anthony’s message:  “Guyana gave the sporting world numerous outstanding exponents in the game of cricket.  As part of the earliest, then the decades long Test Cricket Champions, the West Indies, Guyanese cricketers carved a niche, still unforgettable, for themselves, their country and the West Indies.
From Trim and Christiani to Kanhai, Fredericks Lloyd, Gibbs, Chanderpaul and Sarwan, we were one of the cradles of Cricket, like the Barbadians, in this part of the sporting world.”
“Perhaps, appropriately then, the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, on behalf of the Government and all Guyana, with patriotic pride, dignified exuberance, but pure joy extends absolute congratulations to our victorious senior Guyana Cricket Team which lifted the inaugural WICB Caribbean T/20 title in Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend.  Up front, the Ministry wishes to indicate that these congratulations will be complemented by any reasonable and appropriate assistance requested by the new regional T/20 Champions within our limitations.”
“The team’s management and the experienced accompanying media alluded to the victory being a triumph of solid TEAMWORK as all members, batsmen, bowlers, fielders, captain performed in unison and according dressing room strategy.  Some performances therefore compensated for those who fell short.  Collective skills and wills, topped by the natured excellence of Jonathon Foo throughout the tournament, demonstrated the advantage of team work.  Coming as the triumph did, during the country’s Emancipation observances and celebrations, it would not be far fetched to remind the Guyanese nation as a whole, about what successes can be achieved through united action led by shrewd team work.”
“Now it is onto the grand Indian Premier League (IPL) scheduled for South Africa in September a few short weeks away.  Guyana is to represent the hopes if all the West Indies.  That is both honour and challenge.  It is also a rare OPPORTUNITY.  The Ministry of Sport therefore pledges its full support to the T/20 champs.”
“In this annual season of sport, where Guyana has successfully demonstrated its prowess in such games as football, boxing, karate, squash and rugby, the refrain of our own Dave Martins “WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS” must inspire and follow our T/20 champions onto the larger South African World stage.”
“ALL GUYANA WILL BE THERE TOO!”

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