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Apr 04, 2012 Sports
A number of top class horses have so far taken entry for the Annual Port Mourant Turf Club Easter Sunday Annual One day Horserace meet set for this Sunday April 8 at the club’s entity Port Mourant, Corentyne, Berbice.
Eight races are scheduled for the day’s programme which will have over $5M in trophies and cash at stake.
One of the oldest and biggest racetrack in Guyana, the PMTC is usually a sea of activity for their traditional Easter Sunday meeting, with thousands of Turfites including a number of Overseas based Guyanese back home for the Easter celebrations, converging on the facility and this year is expected to be as competitive as ever.
Even as entry has closed some owners were at the last moment still entering their animals in an effort to be part of the excitement and claim their share of the cash up for grabs and so far over 60 of the country’s top horses have been entered in what is expected to be a scorching day of racing.
There are four feature events on the day’s programme with the B and Lower 1500M event being the main drawing card for whopping $1M winners take.
The other events on the days programme are the Four-year-old open 1200m event which will see the winner receiving $450,000 and trophy. There is $400,000 and trophy available for the winner of the E and Lower 1500m race.
The Three-year-old open event for horses Bred and Born in Guyana and the West Indies over 1500M is for a top prize of $390,000 and trophy. The Three-year-old Guyana bred horses will be running for a top prize of $300,000 over 1200M.
Horses entered in the G and Lower 1200M gallop will have $220,000 and trophy to aim for.
The “I” and lower class 1200M race has a winning purse of $190,000. There is an event for I3 and lower horses for a pole position payment of $150,000.
Some of the Horses entered so far include The Message, Jet Set Go, Damascus Dream, Donut Prince, Grande Roja, Night Crescendo, Who is on the Case, Work Force, Swing Easy, Technology, Got to Go, Crazy Cat, Prince Charming, Who so ever, Home Bush Baby, Who is on the Case, Stormy Flame, Top of the Line, The Bailiff, Strom in a Tea Cup, Better than Gold, Bridal Stone Corner, Captain Crook, Settle in Seattle, Appealing Harvest, Stormy Lass, Prado Gold, Gold Plated, Stormy Deal, Happy Choice, Mona Lisa, Rock Sonia, Savion, Sabrina’s Joy, Red Cloud, Come Dance with Me, Third World, Watch My Shadow, I want Revenge, Blessings, Captain Crook, Face The Fire, Northern Dancer and Bridal Stone Corner, Red Cloud, Rock Sonia, Kiara, Pride and Joy, Miss Regina South Sea, Princess Kiara, Royal Champion, the Gump, Funny Sided, Apostle and the newly imported Gold Prince among the early entries.
Three of Guyana’s main Horseracing sponsors in Beverage Giants Banks DIH Limited, Digicel and Jumbo Jet Auto Sales are the major sponsors to date.
Champion jockey, champion Trainer and stable will all be presented with accolades compliments of Trophy Stall, Bourda Market and the organizers.
The day’s event will be run under the auspices of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority. Those animals that are not properly registered will not be allowed to participate and anyone found contravening any of the rules will be penalized accordingly.
Interested persons can still contact C. Ramnauth on telephone numbers 337-5311, 697-1979, Kris Jagdeo on 322-0369 or R, Gajnabi on 643-9696 for further information. (Samuel Whyte)
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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