Guyana Cup 2019 gallops off tomorrow

Aug 17, 2019 Sports

The 13th edition of the Guyana Cup horserace meet that will see over $20million in cash and prizes being doled out to the top performers will speed off tomorrow at the Rising Sun Turf Club in Rising Sun Village, West Coast Berbice.
Thousands are expected to flock to the venue which is located just 45 minutes from the capital city, Georgetown, and with nine anticipated races on the card, turfites are sure to be busy come race day.
Anticipated to register for the meet, which is one of the marquee events for horseracing in the region, are some 80 animals from Guyana, the Caribbean Region and North America.
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.
Apart from the foreign contingent of horses to be on show, several leading jockeys from overseas are also expected to participate, which will add that international flavour to the day’s event.
The top five finishers in all 10 races would receive cash incentives with the total prize purse being increased from 15 to $20million with US$50,000 in cash being handed out tomorrow.
The details of the races and prize money are listed below:
– C Class and Lower feature race over a distance of one mile, $2M
– Three-year-old Guyana-bred, $1M
– 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 Filly and Mare, $250,000

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