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Feb 22, 2024 Sports
Kaieteur Sports – Trinidadian jockey Rico Hernandez is projecting significant growth in Guyana’s horseracing industry. Hernandez will take the saddle for Jagdeo Racing Stables at Sunday’s (February 25) Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Horse racing committee Mashramani meet.
The experienced jockey, Hernandez, also noted that the horses are comfortable as preparation intensifies for Sunday’s Mashramani meet.
“The horses are comfortable. They did some work and they came back comfortable. That is the most important thing. We are hoping for a good day’s race on Sunday.”
“The experience is very good racing in Trinidad. I won a lot of stakes races, and I can’t compare them to Guyana, but what I can say is the races is developing here a lot, and in the coming years, it will establish to a better racing industry,” Hernandez said.
“You have to go out there and come back safe, it is a risk, but as I say, we are professional jockeys and we take our jobs seriously,” the experienced Trinidadian jockey noted.
The Rising Sun Turf Club is the venue for a Mashramani horse race meet on Sunday February 25, which is being staged by the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee.
Initially, eight races were on the cards, but the hard-working organizers and promoters added one more race to the day’s activity; with nine races set to run off on Sunday.
Some G$10 million will be up for grabs, the feature event will be open to all imported and locally bred horses, running at a distance of 1,600m. The top horse of the feature event will bag G$2 million.
Additionally, the provisional programme includes the West Indian-bred four-year-old and West Indian-bred three-year-old horses running at 1,600m, and the three-year-old Guyana-bred non-winners of two races running at 1,400m.
All the top horses, locally and imported; and jockeys from near and far are expected to ignite the Rising Sun Turf Club at the Mashramani event.
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