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Aug 30, 2016 Sports
The Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club and Sports Facilities will be staging a grand one day horserace meet on Sunday 25th September at the club’s Alness, Corentyne, Berbice race track.
Known to have the best track among all the racing clubs in Guyana, the weather should not cause much bother for the organizers of the grand race meet.
Over $3M are up for grabs and a total of 8 races are billed for the day’s card. The events listed to be contested are the Alness Classic over 1600M event for a first prize of $600,000 and trophy with a total purse of over $1.2M.
The G and lower event over 1300M with a first prize of $300,000 and trophy. The Guyana bred two year old horses will compete for a winners money of $200,000 over 1100M.
The H and lower 1400M even will see the animals racing for a $200,000 winner’s money and trophy.
The animals in the ‘J1’ class event will be competing for $140,000 winners money over 1300M.
The K and lower event will fetch a winning prize of $80,000 over 1100M. There is a race for L1 class animals over 1100M for a first prize of $60,000 and trophy.
The unclassified event will see the horses galloping over 1100M for take home money of $30,000.
Outstanding individual performers including top Jockey, trainer and stable will be presented with accolades compliments of the Trophy Stall of Bourda Market and the RCMTC&SF.
Contact can be made with Marcel Crawford Jr on Telephone number 678-5342, Dennis DeRoop 640-6396 or Compton Sancho on 602-1567 for entry and other details. (Samuel Whyte)
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