More than 70 horses confirmed their entry for the Emancipation horse race meet at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club, set for Sunday, August 2.
Seven races are on the cards, in which 60 per cent of the races feature Guyana-bred horses.
The Emancipation Cup will have a purse of GY$2 million, and the Emancipation Mile will have a pay-out of GY$1 million.
The Emancipation Nursery Stakes and Emancipation Sophomore Stakes will both have a pay-out of $700,000.
The feature race will be the Emancipation Cup, open to all three-year-old and older horses.
Other races on the cards include the E Class non-winner open to F & G Class; the three-year-old Guyana-bred maidens and three-year-old Guyana-bred winners of one race; H Class and lower; J & K Class; L Class Open; and the two-year-old Guyana-bred maidens.
All races will run under the rules of the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club. Entries for this race opened on July 7 and will close on July 19.
Notably, all stakeholders’ entry payments & signatures of trainers & jockeys on the entry form for the Kennard Memorial Turf Club Emancipation Cup Race Meet will continue at the Kennard’s Memorial Turf Club on July 19, with commentator John Rupert.
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