Jockeys excited as PMTC’s Easter Cup race meet looms

– Special prize for young jockeys\

By Brandon Corlette

Top race horses, including Guyana Cup winner Alado, Lookin to Heaven, and Wild Texas Tom, will be battling for supremacy on Sunday, April 9, when the Port Mourant Turf Club (PMTC) hosts the Easter Cup race meet.
Eight exciting races are on the cards, and close to Gy$10 million dollars will be up for grabs on the day. New horses have been imported to ignite the proceedings at the PMTC.

Noted jockeys Nicholas Patrick and Michael Semple are all excited and happy to see horse racing return in its full glory. Special monetary prizes will be awarded to young jockeys with the most win, with Francis Chichester and Kamal making these donations.
The feature event, the Easter Cup, is open to all horses, and will be run over one mile for a winner’s purse of Gy$2 million, while the horse placing second would earn Gy$1 million.
The big entries for the Easter Cup include Alado, Lookin to Heaven, Arianna’s Vision, Our Stuie, Wild Texas Tom, and newly-imported horses Ice Kreem Sundae, Soca Symphony and Bossalina.
The E-class horses are Early Bird, Ever Resting, Converter, newly-imported “U Can’t Handle This”, Game Changer, Nice Company, and Creemore.
Another exciting race on the cards for Easter Cup is the Three-year-old Open Guyana & West Indian-bred contest over 6.75 furlongs for a top prize of Gy$1 million.

Then there are: the H& Lower; the J & Lower maiden; the J Open; the Three-year-old Guyana-bred maiden; the L Open; E Class and North American first-time starters.
Speaking at a promotional activity for the Easter Cup, Jockey Patrick, fresh off four wins at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club, has said he would be aiming to extend his winning form.
“I am feeling good! I have been working hard every day, getting off my bed at 4:20h every morning and heading to work. Truly, I am excited! We have been waiting for races so long, and we got a race last week, and now more races coming up. I am excited to do the best that I can. A lot of new horses, young horses, they will have plenty of fun.
With hard work and dedication to my job, each jockey is good, but I have to go out there and do the best that I can,” Patrick told Guyana Times Sport.
Jockey Semple is happy to see races return to Port Mourant this Easter. He will be riding Miss Republic 2 and Republican in the J Class non-winner and J Class Open respectively.
“The horses are comfortable working out. Everybody will be going out to win; we do not boast. Hopefully, it is a clean day, and it will be a good race day,” Semple said.
Sponsors of this event are Banks DIH, KP Jagdeo General Contractors, AJM, Jumbo Jet Auto Sales, Old Broom Lounge, Anil Sawh, Kascon Engineering, Delmur Company Limited, Sandeep and Sons Contracting.