Rain forces postponement of Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial Cup horse meet at PMTC
Persistent rainfall in the East Berbice-Corentyne area of Region Six has forced postponement of the Port Mourant Turf Club’s horse meet that was to be run off today, Sunday December 11; and according to race organizers, a new date for this meet is yet to be decided.
A number of top local horses had been slated to repel the invasion of foreign horses and their top jockeys from the Caribbean, whose handlers had set their sights on the
more than eight million dollars cash that was up for the take.
Seven races were on the card, and more than 50 horses were in contention, among which were top-performing local animals Looking to Heaven, Our Stuie, Smoking Heels, Red Star, and Eldorado Queen.
The rain postponed an exciting event that was billed for December 11
The main event would have been the race for West Indian-bred horses over one mile, wherein the top horse would have bagged one million dollars. The total purse for that race was approximately two million dollars.
Other races that were on the cards included the H & Lower six-furlong race; the race for two-year-old West Indies and Guyana-bred animals; the J Open; the J Non-Starter; and the race for horses placed second and Lower in the J3 Non-Starter/Earner. The K&L race was set to round off the day’s activities.
The Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial Cup/Port Mourant Turf Club event had major sponsors on board. The sponsors included Motie Shivtahal Sukhram and Ramesh Sukhram, Banks DIH, Jumbo Jet, AJM, Delmur Company Limited, Kascon Engineering, Anil Shaw Contracting, Satesh Beer Garden, Archway Snackette, Sandeep Poultry Supply, Shook Shivmangal, and KP Jagdeo General Contractors.
