Cornerstone handed 56.5 kilos for Friday Lime

GAZA STRIP, Tactical Bid and Cornerstone were each handed topweights of 56.5 kilos in the three handicaps framed on the Arima Race Club “Friday Lime” programme at Santa Rosa Park, Arima, on Friday.

Gaza Strip will tote the top impost against five runners in an 1150 metres event for  imported maiden three-year-olds and over. In the dash, the Sydney Shim inmate will give three kilos to nearest rival Crimson Tower and 9.5 to bottom weight Cyber Five. Tactical Bid will tote her burden in an extended 1300 metres sprint. The American-bred three-year-old daughter of Tactical Advantage/Bida Distraction will face off against seven West Indian and Imported-bred rivals in  the same age group. Mandela and Morgan Heritage were given a similar 53.5 kilos by handicappers Wayne Shockness and Robin Jaisingh in the same event to oppose the Cyril “Grey Patch” Arneaud-trained runner, last seen out in June in the Santa Rosa Dash. Ruby Rich who got on the score sheet last month will take along the pennystamp of 47 kilos against the top trio in the contest. Cornerstone who finished runner-up to Sweet Tempo in the Glen Eagle Stakes, before she followed-up with being fourth behind Top Of The Class in the Midsummer Classic, will have 12 runners to contend with in the 1250 metres race. Baggy Green who switched trainers from Sydney Otway to Edmund De Freitas after  turning in his maiden certificate, is set to race one kilo off the topweight.  Hatrick will come in at  48 kilos.