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Triple Crown Final LegDon’t Over Look and Valentina top earners at Port Mourant
Valentina (leading) gets away from Is He Perfect at the Port Mourant Turf Club.
The Jumbo Jet Racing Stables (JJRS) stampeded away with over $2million in prize money following exciting action at the third and final meet of the Inaugural Triple Crown Horseracing event at the Port Mourant Turf Club in Corentyne, Berbice, on Easter Sunday.
In the feature race of the day, the JJRS finished one-two with USA bred ‘Don’t Over Look’ finishing ahead of Vera’s Finally for the grand cash prize of $1million. Settling Star was third, while TNT finished fourth in the seven and ¾ furlongs feature race.
The Triple Crown race promotion provided a bonus of $500,000 for whichever horse that could have complete three consecutive victories and Valentina; three-year-old Guyana Bred, was the only animal in the running for the bonus, and the mare didn’t disappoint. She won the race comfortably to earn a total of $900,000 for her owners.
Earlier in the day a packed Port Mourant Turf Club witnessed Ready to Romance starting the day with a win, while Miss Olympic rode second position in the I-class. In the second race of the day, Gold Again and Touch The Cash dominated the L-Class Open.
In race three, Keep on Swinging it (first) and Red Rocket (second) out of Trinidad and Tobago, were the top horses in the H-Class event.
The fifth race, which saw the J-Class horses in action, and Miss Olympic crossed the finished line first with Red Region (second), Gold (third) and Mary Ann (fourth) all trailing.
Signing off the day, was the Non-Earner 1300m event, that saw First Prince of Hyper Active Racing Stables and Upfront finishing as the top two horses, while Silver Charm came in third position.
This racing event was sponsored by Jumbo-Jet Auto Sales, Banks DIH Ltd, Randi Persaud Racing Stable (USA), Kris Jagdeo Racing Stable, Trophy Stall, Beesham Singh and Abdul Latiff.
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