… Thrilling encounters anticipated today

GUYANA’S leading distributors in silverware, the Trophy Stall, continued its support of horseracing by committing sponsorship to the 12th edition of the lucrative ‘Guyana Cup’ horserace meet which gallops off at the Rising Sun Turf Club today, with over $15M in cash and prizes up for grabs.

Rohan Oudit’s Construction Company as well has added its name to the list of sponsors supporting the mega horseracing event, the biggest of the year on the local calendar.

At the South Road location of the Trophy Stall, proprietor Ramesh Sunich, presented organiser Nazrudeen Mohamed, with half-a-dozen trophies which will be awarded to top performers at this Sunday’s race meet at Number 6 Village, West Coast Berbice.

Mohamed expressed gratitude for the generous gesture by Sunich, while the owner noted that he is always ready to support horseracing which attracts fans from all walks of life.

Today’s event is regarded as the most lucrative horserace meet the nation has ever seen. Many fans and turfites prepare for the highly anticipated rivalry between the jockeys in the Jumbo Jet Thoroughbred Racing Committee and Rising Sun Turf Club collaborative initiative.

The one-day meet set for Berbice is gaining momentum both locally and overseas with a lot of sponsors ready to saddle up with the mega event; Trophy Stall and Rohan Oudit’s Construction Company join a long list which includes Mohamed’s Enterprise, Impressive Signs of New Amsterdam, Berbice, Discount Store, Hand-in-hand Insurance, Superbet, Gizmos and Gadgets, BM Soat, Mazi Night Club, Hyper Malt and Rohan Auto Spares, Big L Lumber Yard, Banks DIH along with Elvis and D’ Emperor Trucking Services.

The programme of events for the day will see the C Class event as the main attraction.

The day’s full race programme reads as follows:

1) C Class and Lower, 1600m. Total Purse: $3,875,000

2) 3-year-old Derby 1100m – Purse: $2M.

3) G1 and Lower 1400m – Purse: $1,550,000.

4) H3 and Lower 1100m – Purse $1,350,000.

5) 2yrs old Guyana-bred 1100m – Purse: $680,000.

6) I Class and Lower 1400m – Purse: $581,000.

7) J3 and Lower 1400m. Purse: $485,000.

8) L Class 1400m – Purse $390,000.

9) L Class 1400m – Purse $390,000.

10) L Class 1100m – Purse $290,000.