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Over 50 horses entered as entries closed yesterday for PMTC Old Year’s Day meet

Dec 24, 2012 Sports

Entries were expected to be closed yesterday for the Port Mourant Turf club (PMTC) grand one day horserace meet set for Sunday December 30th at the clubs entity, Port Mourant, Corentyne Berbice.  Nine action packed races are on the day’s cards and over $8.5M in cash and trophies are on offer.
Most of the top stables and jockeys in the country are expected to be on board for the one day meet which is being held in collaboration with Jumbo Jet Auto Sales and Krishna Jagdeo Construction.
The feature B class race will see the horses racing for total prize money of close to $3M. The winning horse will run away with a first prize of $1.5M and trophy over 1600M.
The Three Year old race for horses Bred and born in Guyana and the West Indies has a $600,000 bounty for the winner over 1600M.
The Two year Guyana and West Indies Bred event will see the horses galloping over 1200M for the $500,000 first prize on offer.  The E class event has a wining haul of $500,000 and trophy available for the top horses over 1200 meters.
The G class event will be a 1400M affair and will see the champion horse taking home a winners money of $400,000 and trophy.
The race for Guyana bred Two year old horses will see the winning horse taking home $300,000 and trophy also over 1200M.
The H class race winning prize is pegged at $300,000 and trophy for the winner with the distance being 1000M.
There are two other exciting races on the day’s card for I class animals. There is the race for animals classified ‘I’ and lower over 1200M with a winning money of $200,000.  The other event is for the animals classified J and lower over 1000M for a pole position taking of $150,000.
Among some of the jockeys expected to be in the saddles are Andron Findlay, Brian Blake, Yap ‘Old Boy’ Drepaul, Colin Ross , Paul Delph, Carl Liverpool, Rupert ‘Put’ Ramnauth, Daniel ‘Buckman’ Flores, Kevin Paul, Mark Vassey, Rad Drepaul, Krishna Singh, Navin Ally, Mahendra Sukhoo, Nacimento, Michael Sancho, Prem Chandra, Winston Apadhu and Kevin Richmond, Ajai, Junior and Brandon Salomon.
Most of the top stables are in full preparation and are expected to be represented on race day. Among those showing interest are Colin Elcock’s Delmur and P&P Syndicate Racing stable, Jagdeo Racing stable, Asrafali racing stables, Dennis DeRoop Simple Royal, Senior Council Marcel Crawford Racing stable, Shariff Racing stable, Habibulla, Jumbo Jet, Night Eyes, Mahaicony, Jagroop/ Jagmohan, and Singh racing stables among others.
Outstanding performers including top Jockey, top stable, top trainer will be presented with accolades compliments of Ramesh Sunich of the Trophy Stall, Bourda Market.
Interesting horse owners are asked to make contact with the following persons Krishna Jagdeo on 322-0369, C. Ramnauth on telephone numbers 337-5311 or 697-9696 or Jumbo Jet office on numbers 232-9711, 2320633 or 624-9063 for additional details.  Race time is 13:00 hrs. (Samuel Whyte)

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