The Pooran family won a horse at the Guyana Cup race meet
IT is either a stroke of Luck or divine intervention for the Pooran household that they did not run a race, but have unknowingly been a very big winner with a $5,000 entry ticket to the races.
They were undecided about attending last Sunday’s Guyana Cup race meeting at the Rising Sun Turf Club (RSTC), the reason being they had lost their only horse, which had been like a family member to their household.
Mourning the loss created the uncertainty of attending the most prestigious horse race meeting on the country’s sporting calendar.
However, a call from a very close friend, Randy (Dinesh Deodatt), one week before Guyana Cup was staged changed their minds. Randy, an avid horseman, was on his way to buy tickets for the Guyana Cup, and enquired if they wanted him to buy tickets for them.
Randy shared, “I knew a horse was going to be raffled, so if you don’t have a ticket, you don’t have a chance; so, I went with the hope we could win the horse. I purchased 12 tickets at a cost of $5,000 each. When I returned home, I told my wife Gracelin Campbell to give out the tickets. She gave the Pooran family from the stack of tickets – the first three tickets” (numbered 0132-0535)
The raffled horse is a USA-bred roan/grey yearling filly that goes by the name Funtastic/Rainbow Bright.
