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Dream became reality as Dream Boy lands double at Budhan’s horserace meet
By Anil Bhola
Dream Boy showed up his rivals this past Sunday when the Budhan’s Memorial Turf Club held its grand one day horserace meet to start the 2013 Guyana horse racing season. 
In the 1 mile feature race, Blessing took an early commanding lead with jockey Rad Drepaul on mount, powering ahead for the first 1000 meters. As the field angled around the final two turns Dream Boy moved up his position to press for the lead and with a powerful surge the 3 year old colt flew past its opponents and the finish line to win by some 4 lengths ahead of Blessing with Princess Renuka checking in for third.
Earlier, Dream Boy captured the J1 & lower event traveling 6 furlongs from a field of 8 horses with a gate to pole win ahead of Windy Killer. Modern Cowboy and Its My Time rounded out the top 4 Positions.
The opening J3 Event saw Windy Killer of the B. Crawford Racing Stables with jockey Jason Semple in the saddle taking a commanding lead from start to finish to win ahead of Modern Cowboy. Pick Pocket was third.
Bright Light with jockey Rodrigues captured the K class race from Champ who was second as Secretariat and Prince of Peace were third and fourth respectively.
Magaline piloted by Jockey Apadhu won ahead of Master Christopher as Sax Man was third in one of the two unclassified events. The second one saw Dilian winning from Master Christopher with Nikita third.
The day’s event was witnessed by some 1,500 patrons. Dream Boy was adjudged champion horse as Jockey Rad Drepaul ran away with the jockey honours and Jason Semple settled for the runner up position.
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