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Vintage Message impressive at RCMTC Horserace meet
– Night Crescendo shines brightly
Several horses entertained the large crowd when the Ryan Crawford Memorial Turf Club (RCMTC) staged an exciting day of horseracing at the club’s track, Alness, Corentyne Berbice last Sunday. Seven events were carded for the day and it was the animals from the Crawford stables that dominated the day’s activities. Indeed, fans were truly thrilled after witnessing top class races involving Sir Balajee, Peaceful and Vanessa among other horses.
Junior Vaughn of the Elcock stables collects the winning trophy from Michael Merai of the RCMTC after Peaceful convincing victory in the Two year old event.
Several prominent individuals were on hand to witness a truly entertaining day of horseracing. Among them were Jamaican pacer, Darren Powell and wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh. Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry Youth, Sports and Culture, Steve Ninvalle was also present and assisted in the presentation ceremony.
Over 50 horses participated in the day’s activities and over 2.5M dollars was up for grabs.
It was Deja vu all over again as Mr. Colin Elcock’s Message and Mr. Marcel Crawford’s Night Crescendo once again took centre stage, destroying their opponents in convincing style.
The two animals replicated their performance at the Norman Singh Memorial Turf Club, scoring convincing victories in the two main events for the ‘C’ Class and the 3 year olds.
The Message sent out a strong missive to its competitors with a scintillating performance in the feature ‘C’ Class event, romping home comfortably ahead of its competitors and carting off the $300,000 first prize and the Banks DIH trophy.
The 1700m event saw Sweet Caramel of The Customs Racing Stables setting off at a blistering gallop, initially leaving its competitors in its wake. The Message eventually surged ahead when the animals hit the far turn and subsequently, the homestretch. Straddled by Paul Delph, The Message sped off ahead of the bunch to register a come from behind victory. Sweet Caramel held on for second, a short distance ahead of a fast finishing Miss Republic of the Elcock stables. Cherokee Brother closed off the prime spots.
The 3 years old event, competed over 1700m attracted animals born and bred in Guyana as well as the West Indies. In this event, Night Crescendo, straddled by Kevin Paul of the Crawford Stables, powered to victory to take the $200,000 first prize and trophy donated by Digicel.
It was indeed a competitive event where Night Crescendo and Lady of My Dreams, both from the Elcock stables, with the latter ridden by Ramnauth, battled for supremacy. In the end, it was Night Crescendo who, with a burst of speed, romped home first.
‘Peaceful,’ of the Elcock Stables, then registered the second win for that entity. Expertly guided jockey by Paul Delph, the animal scored a convincing win in the two year event. For the win, Delph carted off the $175,000 first prize and the RCMTC trophy. Monilisa, Miss Bounty and De Gump finished in that order in the 1300m event.
Sir Balajee of the Customs Racing Stable, piloted by Yap Drepaul, returned to royalty with an upset in the F class, 1700m event. For his efforts the jockey won $140,000. World Class, the Gap, Face the Music and Alphabet finished in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th positions, respectively.
The H class event saw Vanessa of The Crawford Stables straddled by Kevin Paul, winning the $70,000 first prize. Funny Side, Channel Boy and Custom Warrior finished in that order.
Funny Side then returned to avenge the loss to El Gato with a convincing win in the ‘I’ Class category to cart off $80,000 while Clear Victory and Custom Warrior filled the second and third places.
In the final event, for Unclassified horses over 1100m, a sober ‘Rum Till I Die’ of the Fraser Stable won the $60,000 first prize. The Elcock stables won the champion stable prize while Paul Delph also of the Elcock stables, won the champion jockey award. Both received trophies compliments of Trophy Stall, Bourda market.
Heavy rains the previous day failed to distort the track preserving the views of administrators of the RTMTC that the track is one of the better facilities in Guyana.
Rhythm Stars International Sound Company provided musical vibes through out the days proceedings which was incident free.
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