Gold Master for magical pot

GOLD MASTER is heavily tipped for glory in the final event of the Arima Race Club Day 10 programme at the Santa Rosa Park, Arima today.

The main event on the nine-race programme will see 10 horses facing the starter on the dirt track from 5.35 pm, but the Kentucky, USA-bred chestnut, with leading jockey Ricardo Jadoo on the saddle is expected to take the 1,100-metre sprint and the $10,000 jackpot. The race, for three-year-old West Indies winners and three-year-old imported horses, can be seen as an American invasion, with Infallibility, owned by Junior Sammy and trained by Grant Lourenco, and the Harriram Gobin-trained Piece of Cake are in the fray. Another keenly anticipated race today is Race 4 for West Indian bred three-year-old maidens over a distance of 1,750 metres.

Vying for the $10,000 cash prize will be the trio of Firestorm, with Jadoo aboard; the Junior Sammy-owned Undisputed, which will be ridden by “2002 Jockey of the Year” Rajpaul Rajkumar and the John O’Brien-trained Isle Be There, which will be saddled by Nobel Abrego. And fans will be awaiting the eighth race on the card, for three-year-old regional winners and imported horses over 1,350 metres, with El Guerrouj, Maid of Honour, Carnival Messiah and Bazodee Gal in the reckoning for the purse of $18,000. Action on the Santa Rosa track will begin at 1 pm.