KARACHI: Favourite dark bay horse Night Vision lived up to his billing while galloping to an impressive six lengths victory over mare Heer to lift the Kashmir Day Cup in the winter Gymkhana race meeting at the Karachi Racecourse on Sunday.

By doing so, in a start-to-finish bid, Night Vision avenged his last defeat to the same opponent on Jan 14.

Night Vision clocked one minute one second for five furlongs race and the success helped him open his account for the year.

Owned by KRC steward Irfan Mehdi, the victorious horse was ably ridden home by Asad Aksir and partnered by trainer Yousuf S. The trio celebrated the Kashmir Day with a double, the other winner being filly Flaming Ember in the second race.

A race earlier, colt Geo Baba defeated co-favourite mare Balochistan Queen as he pleased by 10 lengths to win the supporting race.

He was piloted home by M. Asim in the four-and-a-half furlongs race in 0.573/5 seconds.

Earlier, rank outsider mare Baby Champion created quite a stir while imposing to a length-and-a-quarter victory over gelding Faisal Choice to clinch the opening four-furlongs race in 0.541/5 seconds under rider M. Manzoor.

Flaming Ember overcame bay horse Baraco by half-a-length to annex the second race as co-favourite filly Fire Work settled third ahead of mare Fiona.

The winning horse clocked 0.581/5 seconds for four-and-a-half-furlong competition.

The third race ended in a blaze of glory for public fancy mare Angel Love who powered to 12 lengths victory over mare Take Care with rider Sohail Ahmed astride. She was home in 0.563/5 seconds in four-and-a-half-furlong race.

VETERAN TRAINER NADIM ABRO DIES

Veteran trainer Nadim Abro who died due to cardiac arrest at a local hospital was laid to rest at Korangi graveyard the other day. The 54-year-old deceased is survived by a widow and two daughters. A minute’s silence was observed before the cup race for the departed soul on Sunday.

Published in Dawn, February 6th, 2023