Rising Sun Horse Race Meet...Day of hectic races envisaged this Sunday

Rising Sun Horse Race Meet…Day of hectic races envisaged this Sunday

Apr 26, 2013 Sports

It is touted to be a once in a life time Horse Racing treat and over 80 of the country’s top horses will compete for more than 6.5M in cash, trophies and other prizes when the Rising Sun Turf Club in collaboration with Hard Runnings Promotion and Trucking Service stages their fund raising activity at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Arima Park, West Coast Berbice, this Sunday.
The event which is the second hosted by the club for this year and will see several top horses, the likes of Score’s Even, Sumer Classic and Cat Messiah participating in a sizzling encounter over 1400m.
Once again, the event will benefit from the largesse of several corporate entities including Banks DIH Limited, Trophy Stall of the Bourda Market, Shariff Business Enterprise and the Jumbo Jet.

Shariff racing stable representative, Zahir Shariff (left), hands over the sponsorship cheque to RSTC Trainer Glendon Sooklall while Murtland Williams and Daniel Flores savors the moment.

Banks DIH takes charge of the feature event, the ‘C and Lower’ and has donated close to $1.5M while Trophy Stall picks up the tab for the top individual performers, the top stable, jockey, horses and trainer.
Shariff and Jumbo Jet are major racing entities and their corporate input is well noted. The latter entity fields 11 horses while the former has seven.
Meanwhile, the winner of the ‘C & Lower’ event over a distance of 1400m will cart off a huge purse of $700,000 along with the Banks DIH Trophy. This race is expected to be highly competitive with such animals in the lineup as Grande Roja, Zelick, Diamond Dazzling, Who So Ever, Mission King, Renia Del Café, The Baliff, Traditional Man, Technology, Miss Karina, C.P Got Even, County Armagh, Fresh Again, Treacle, Red and Lovely, Captain Crook and Prado’s Gold.
The pundits believe that each animal is in with a chance but with several new imports in the starting lineup, an upset can very well be in the forecast. The other events expected to be keenly contested is the race for three year Guyana and West Indies Bred animals over 1400m; the winner pockets $400,000.
Additionally, there is the event for ‘E & D and Lower’ over 1100m for maiden animals with a winning take of $400,000. The race for horses in the ‘F and Lower’ category carries a top prize of $350,000 while the ‘G & Lower over 1400m nets the winner $340,000.
The day’s events will come to a delectable culmination with the Classified G3 & lower, ‘I’ and lower and J and lower.
Horse owners desirous of participating may contact Fazal Habibulla (232 0232 or 657 7010), Inshanally Habibulla (623 4495 or 232 3295), Donald or Zaleena Lawrie (225 4530 or 225 4565).
Activities will be conducted under the aegis of the Rising Sun Turf Club and race time is 12:30hrs.