RACE horse owners/trainers are reminded that entries/registration for their animals for the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club Boxing Day meet at the Club’s facility, Bush Lot Farm, Corentyne Berbice, will be closed on Saturday.The feature event on the day’s card will be a one-mile race for horses classified `C and Lower’ (WA) and carries a first prize of $1M along with a trophy. The other top three finishers will receive $500 000, $250 000 and $125 000 respectively.
The co-feature event is a six-furlong race for horses classified `E and Lower’ and has a first prize of $500 000 at stake. The second-, third- and fourth-place finishers will receive $250 000, $125 000 and $62 000 respectively.
Three more six-furlong races are also carded for the day with one being for horses classified `H1 and Lower another for `J3 and Lower horses and the other for horses classified `J1 and Lower’ and two-year-old Guyana-bred horses.
One five-furlong race will be staged for `K1 and Lower (WA) horses.
One other one-mile race will also be staged and this will be for horses classified `G1 and Lower’ and two-year-old (maiden) horses. The winner will be rewarded with $300 000 while the other top three performers will take home $150 000, $75 000 and $38 000 respectively.
Owners/trainers who have not registered their horses for the event and would like to do so are asked to make contact with either C. Roopnarine Matadial (325-3192) or Ivan Dipnarine (331-0316); Justice Kennard (623-7609, 225-4818 or 226-1399); Isabala Beaton (693-7812) or Dennis Deroop (609-9143).