THE Continental Group of Companies continued to support the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club’s (KMTC) Annual Boxing Day race meet with a monetary contribution for the first race on the December 26 race meet card.The company is sponsoring all cash prizes for the top four finishers of the `K1 and Lower’ five-furlong race as well as the winning trophy.
The first-place winner will receive $120 000 and a trophy, while the other top three finishers will earn $60 000, $30 000 and $15 000 respectively.
Marketing and Sales Manager of the Continental Group, Avalon Jagnandan, in a brief address at Justice Cecil Kennard’s office yesterday said his company is pleased to be associated with the KMTC race meet which has become an annual event on the Guyana Horse Racing Authority’s calendar of events for each year.
Jagnandan noted that this particular event is always of a high standard and his company is happy to continue its association with the KMTC and with sports in general.
Over the years the Continental Group of Companies has supported sports in Guyana in a wide array of areas including motor racing, horse racing, badminton, football, table tennis, hockey, karate and golf among other disciplines.
Jagnandan, however, stated that horse racing is a growing sport locally and it is a sport that brings all our peoples together, “thus, Continental’s continuous involvement in this sport”.
Justice Kennard in very brief remarks thanked the Continental Group for its continued support which started some 27 years ago.
Meanwhile, Rohan Auto Spares of Corentyne, Berbice is sponsoring the fourth race on the day’s programme and not the third event as was previously stated in this newspaper.
Rohan’s will be sponsoring the `J3 and Lower’ six-furlong race with the winner collecting $140 000, while the other top three finishers will receive $70 000, $35 000 and $17 000 respectively.
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.
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 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.
Race horse owners and trainers are reminded that registration of horses for the event closes today and owners/trainers who have not registered their animals as yet and wish to do so can make contact with either Roopnarine Matadial (325-3192), or Ivan Dipnarine (331-0316); Justice Kennard (623-7609, 225-4818 or 226-1399); Isabella Beaton (693-7812) or Dennis Deroop (609-9143).