It has been confirmed that Guyana’s champion horse for 2023, Spankhurst, will be participating in the President’s Cup race meet on September 22 at the Rising Sun Turf Club in Region Five.
The crowd’s favourite horse did not participate in the Guyana Cup race meet because of injury, but according to new owner Jermaine Sripal, Spankhurst is fit and would be ready for September 22.
With Spankhurst being added to the star-studded roster, the President’s Cup meeting would certainly be highly competitive. Spankhurst has had four starts in 2024, and has secured two victories, with the last one coming at the Port Mourant Easter Cup meeting. This horse is now owned by J’s Racing Stables, a new stable, which has also imported Nova Sol, the horse that came in second place at this year’s Guyana Cup meeting.
Competition at the Guyana Cup meeting would proverbially be out of this world, as the champion horse Olympic Kremlin, President’s Cup defending champion John Bull, Easy Time, and Stolen Money are among top-of-the-line horses that would be seeking glory at that meet.
Spankhurst is expected to return to competition for the President’s Cup race meet on September 22 at Rising Sun
Approximately G$15 million would be disbursed as prize money for the nine races carded on the President’s Cup schedule. The feature race of the meet would have a total purse of close to G$6M, and would be contested over a distance of approximately eight furlongs. That race is open to all horses three years old and over.
Entry will be open on September 11, and entry forms for the President’s Cup would be at the Port Mourant Turf Club, the Rising Sun Turf Club, the Bush Lot United Turf Club, and at Lot 106 Smyth Street in Werk-En-Rust, Georgetown.
Other races on the provisional card include the three-year-old Guyana and West Indian-bred, Sprint ‘E’ Class for horses three years old and over, two-year-old maiden, H1 And Lower Open to ‘G’ Class Non- Earners on Guyana Cup. Also open to ‘G’ class Non winners in Guyana, H3 and Lower, ‘J’ Class Open to H3 Non earner in last two starts, K Class/J3 Non-Earner Last Start and the L Class/J Class and K Class and Non- Earner Last Start.
