Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial Cup horse meet set for PMTC on December 11

-Top local horses led by Alado to battle Caribbean invasion

Guyana Cup champion and President’s Cup winner Alado is set to battle an invasion of foreign horses at the Port Mourant Turf Club on Sunday, December 11, when the Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial horse meet, a grand and lucrative one-day horse-racing affair, is run off.
More than eight million dollars will be up for grabs, and the Caribbean’s top horses and their jockeys will be contesting to cash in on the lucrative prizes on offer.
Seven races are on this card, and more that 50 horses would be in contention, among which are top-performing local animals Looking to Heaven, Our Stuie, Smoking Heels, Red Star, and Eldorado Queen.
The main event would be the race for West Indian-bred horses over one mile, wherein the top horse would bag one million dollars. The total purse for that race is approximately two million dollars.
Other races carded include 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 will round off the day’s activities.

For the Open event, the weight would be allotted by class. In the two-year-old West Indies-bred event, horses would carry seven lbs more than maiden creole horses, and three lbs for the winners. Also, the first Guyana-bred horse to finish the race would be paid separately.
The Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial horse meet would be conducted according to the rules of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority, and the Club reserves the right to cancel/reframe any race. Five horses must start a race for the third prize to become payable, and seven horses must start a race for the fourth prize to become payable.
The Shivtahal Sukhram Memorial Cup is sponsored by Motie Shivtahal Sukhram and Ramesh Sukhram. Monetary sponsorship for this meet has thus far come from Banks DIH, Jumbo Jet, AJM, Delmur Company Limited, Kascon Engineering, Anil Shaw Contracting, Satesh Beer Garden, Archway Snackette, Sandeep Poultry Supply, and KP Jagdeo General Contractors. (Brandon Corlette)