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Aug 11, 2019 Sports
On Friday last, food and beverage giant, Banks DIH limited, signed on as a major sponsor for the 13th Guyana Cup through their popular Banks Beer brand.

Rochelle Parasram (left), assistant branch manager of Movie Towne Guyana hands over the sponsorship to Rovin DeSouza of JJTRC.

Nasrudeen Mohamed Jr. (center left) is presented with the Champion trophy from Director of Sport Chris Jones, during the Bank DiH presentation on Friday.
Although Banks Beer has been a regular supporter of the event, during the simple but significant ceremony at the company’s Thirst Park location, Communications Manager, Troy Peters, expressed pleasure to be onboard with the event, once again.
In addition, signing on for the first time is Movie Towne Mall. The recently commissioned business has taken a bold step to support the ever growing sport of horseracing in Guyana, and the organisers of the event, Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee (JJTRC), in a release to the media posited gratitude for all of the support.
The 13th annual Guyana Cup 2019 gallops off in exactly one week on August 18th at the Rising Sun Turf Club, Rising Sun Village in West Coast, Berbice (45mins from Georgetown) and it is expected to be one of the biggest if not the biggest in the history of the competition with over US$50,000 cash in prize money being handed out on the day and a grand mega concert featuring eight international artistes planned after the event.
The event will feature an eight-race programme. The details of the races and prize money are listed below:
– C Class and lower feature race over a distance of one mile for – $2million,
– Three-year-old Guyana Bred – $1million
– G3 and lower – $400,000
– L3 and lower (open to non-winners from Trinidad & Tobago) – $350,000
– Two-year-old Guyana bred over – $300,000.
– J3 and lower over seven furlongs – $300,000.
– L Class for Colts – $250,000
– L Class Philly and Mare – $250,000
Some of the top animals expected to be on show come race day will include Just Call Me Bass, Crown the King (Jamaica), Doublin Fashion (USA), Chameli (Jamaica), Safara (Jamaica), Southern Express (T&T), Silver & Things (T&T), Sitarr (T&T), Kentucky Woman (T&T), Super Easy (T&T) and She’s a Princess.
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