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| April 17, 2006 | Monday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 18, 1427 |
Fancied Cobbler captures feature event
LAHORE, April 16: Fancied three-year-old colt, Cobbler, came with a well-timed challenge under jockey Shahid Rehman to capture the Lake City Cup run over 1300m during the Lahore Winter Meeting at the Racecourse on Sunday.
Owned by Khawaja M. Arif and trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar Cobbler beat joint favourite Herry Can View by one and three-quarter of a length with Para Game three lengths further away in third place. This was the fifth and feature event of the day.
In the supporting and eighth race of the day bay colt Fajr put up a scintillating performance when he won in a front-running style to beat long chaser Motivator by two lengths.
Ridden by jockey M. Hanif Fajr gave no anxious moments to his backers. Owned by Shoaib Tariq Fajr is trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar Fajr delighted connoisseurs of the sport with his superb running.
Jockeys Shahid Rehman and Javed Iqbal and trainer Haji Ghulam Sarwar shared day's honours when they were accredited with a double each in partly cloudy and cool afternoon.
Shahid Rehman rode home Red Hot and Cobbler in the fourth and fifth race while Javed Iqbal steered Top Figure and Alexander in the third and seventh race. Haji Ghulam Sarwar saddled Cobbler and Fajr in the fifth and eighth race.
Four favourites obliged the punters in a card of eight races.
Results.
Raiwind Plate Class VII Div II 1100m.
Kosay Kaza (Shahid Ahmed Sheikh) 8-0 Azhar Hussain 1. Savera 9-0 Faisal Ali 2. Green Hill 8-2 Sajjad Hussain 3. Song Of Freedom 8-11 Shahid Mustafa 4.
Won by 1 L, 2 L, 2 3/4 L. Time one min 10 3/5 secs.
Winner trained by Malik Manga Khan.
RAIWIND PLATE CLASS VII DIV I 1100m.
Black Leopard (S. Iftikhar Ali) 8-2 Sajjad Hussain 1. Bad-i-Naseem 8-8 A. Imran 2. Tallal The Great 8-10 Shahid Mustafa 3. Wah Bhai Wah 8-6 P. Bhatty 4.
Won by 1/2 L, 1 1/4 L, 1/2 L. Time one min 10 secs. Winner trained privately by Raja T. Khan.
SPRING PLATE CLASS V DIV II-B 1300M.
Top Figure (Shahid Mahmood) 8-4 Javaid Iqbal 1. War Admiral 8-6 Azhar Hussain 2. Fido Dido 8-6 Rehman Ali (II) 3. Thinkable 7-10 Shahid Mustafa 4.
Won by 3 L, 4 L, Distance. Time one min 24 3/5 secs. Winner privately trained by Aleem-ud-Din.
SPRING PLATE CLASS V DIV II-A 1300m.
Red Hot (Junaid Rashid Rana) 8-10 Shahid Rehman 1. Red Flame 8-12 M. Hanif 2. Cross Ruff 8-10 A. Imran 3. Eye Of The Tiger 8-10 Azhar Hussain 4.
Won by 3/4 L, 5 1/2 L, 4 L. Time one min 21 1/5 secs. Winner trained by A. B. Malik.
LAKE CITY CUP CLASS V DIV I 1300M.?
Cobbler (Khawaja M. Arif) 9-0 Shahid Rehman 1. Herry Can View 9-2 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Para Game 8-3 Javaid Iqbal 3. Love Moon 9-0 Shahid Mustafa 4.
Won by 1 3/4 L, 5 3/4 L, 1 1/4 L. Time one min 20 3/5 secs. Winner trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar.
HYDERABAD PLATE CLASS IV DIV III 1300m.
Royal Power (Makhdoom Syed Ali Raza) 8-0 A. Aziz 1. Empire Maker 8-10 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2. Royal Gambler 9-2 Shahid Rehman 3. Safe And Sound 8-10 Rehman Ali 4.
Won by 3 3/4 L, Short-head, Distance. Time one minute 13 seconds. Winner trained by Mohammad Hanif.
HYDERABAD PLATE CLASS IV DIV II 1200m.
Alexander( Zaheer Aslam) 8-12 Javed Iqbal 1.Shahpur Pride 7-13 M. Hanif 2. Putra's Lady 8-1 Sajjad Hussain 3. Red Hot Fire 8-1 Faisal Ali 4.
Won by Neck, 6 1/2 L, 5 1/4 L. Time one min 13 4/5 secs. Winner trained by I. Nawab.
HYDERABAD PLATE CLASS IV DIV I 1200m.
Fajr (Shoaib Tariq) 7-10 M. Hanif 1. Motivator 8-3 Salah-ud-Din (II) 2.Trace kim 7-12 A. Aziz 3.Sher-i-Gujrat 9-6 Azam Hussain 4.
Won by 2 L, 3 1/4 L, 7 1/4 L. Time one min 13 1/5 secs. Winner trained by Haji Ghulam Sarwar.
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