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Former Chief Architect Bynoe dies

FORMER Chief Architect of Trinidad and Tobago and holder of the Humming Bird Gold medal for his service in the field of Architecture, Peter Bynoe, died yesterday morning at his Maraval home from cancer. Bynoe, 85, had been ailing for some time. He fell ill in May while serving as a Commissioner in the Commission of Inquiry into the Piarco Airport Development Project. Bynoe attended St Mary’s College where he played first-class cricket and football and won the Victor Ludorum for Athletics on two consecutive occasions. He was also a boxing champion. He qualified as an Architect at the Architectural department of the Brixton School of Building in London with associate membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He pursued courses in Town Planning at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and the University of Bangor, North Wales. From 1945-1965, he was a research fellow/lecturer, at the School of Planning and Architecture, University of New Delhi, India.

Bynoe worked as an architectural assistant at Lewisham Borough Council, London from 1952-1953. He worked for several years at the Ministry of Works and was the Chief Architect from 1962-1968. As a member of the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1942-1946, Bynoe served in World War II and was also the RAF’s Liaison Officer in 1946 and Secretary of the RAF Association in Trinidad in 1959. In 1947, he married Dame Hilda Louisa Bynoe, nee Gibbs, who was the Governor of Grenada. They would have celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary next month. They had two sons. The prominent architect was President of the Society of TT Architects, President of the Association of the Commonwealth Societies of Architects in the Caribbean, Chairman of the Land Development Control Authority and President of the Grenada Red Cross. He was patron of the Grenada Football Association, Grenada Athletic and Cycling Association and the Grenada Ex-Servicemen’s League.

Bynoe had intentions of studying dentistry but his love for architect took him on that path. He, together with another prominent Guyanese architect, were responsible for the restoration and renovation of the Georgetown Hospital in Guyana and designed the Dretchi building and the Hugh Wooding Law school here in Trinidad. He also did designs for a number of governments, including a Parliament building and Halls of Justice for the government of Cayman Islands; a cultural complex for St Lucia; design for a Caricom Secretariat headquarters building for the Guyana government and design for an administrative commercial office for the St Vincent Electricity Corporation. He served as a Director on many boards, which included Chairman of the Development and Planning Committee, Grenada; Director of the Inter-American Rural Housing Association and the Eastern Caribbean Currency Authority.
Funeral arrangements are being finalised.

25 in court after Great Race- ‘Weedfest’ in Tobago

IN THE aftermath of Saturday’s Great Race festivities at Store Bay, about 25 people, including several Trinidadians, appeared in the Scarborough Magistrates’ First Court yesterday on charges ranging from obscene language to marijuana possession to a being armed with a weapon, in a straight all-day marathon session which ended at 3 pm. Senior Magistrate Betsy-Ann Peterson commended court staff, including note-takers etc, for their unstinting service having gone without lunch. It was a packed public gallery with people spilling over on the outside, crowding the corridors. At the end of proceedings, several people were fined, and in one case a man was jailed, for marijuana possession; while others were fined for being armed with a weapon, as well as the use of obscene language.

Several persons are to reappear in court today for sentencing. Most of the defendants were held when police mounted a road-block exercise along the Milford Road near Store Bay on Saturday morning, while others were actually held during the Great Race festivities in the Store Bay area. Several were arrested during police exercises in other parts of the island from Thursday. Hayden George was jailed for six months with hard labour after he admitted being in possession of six grammes of marijuana while he was a passenger in a car that was stopped by police. He was charged by Detective PC Marlon Robley of the Scarborough CID. The court heard that George had two previous convictions for a similar offence, the last being in February this year. “I was truly a smoker in the wrong place at the wrong time. I would just like to ask the mercy of the court,” he pleaded. The Magistrate responded with a jail term. In another matter, Brent Edwards was fined $700 for being in possession of an offensive weapon, namely a knife, which was concealed in his pants waist.

Trinidadian Lennox Deonanand was smoking an unusually long cigarette on the Store Bay Beach. When confronted by police and searched, a further quantity of the illegal herb was found in a small transparent plastic bag, the court was told by Prosecutor, Ag Insp Fitzroy Gray. He was fined $850 and given 21 days to pay, failing which he will have to serve six weeks in jail with hard labour. Phillip Lavareaux, of Tabaquite, was similarly fined for having .5 grammes of the marijuana. Keron Moses, 18, of Calder Hall, Scarborough, was fined $700 (or six weeks in jail) for having a knife hidden on his person. Another 18-year-old, Mathew Moreno, represented by defence attorney Lennox Phillips, was fined $2,500 (or four months hard labour) for having marijuana at Store Bay. He paid $700 immediately and was given 14 days to pay the rest. Grover Thomas, of Chaguanas, was fined $700 (or six weeks in jail) for having 2.5 grammes of marijuana at the same location. He was given 14 days to pay the sum. Anthony Agard admitted having 1.5 grammes of the illegal herb and was similarly fined $700.

‘Skelly’ out on bail

Sheldon “Skelly” Lovell, who had been named by police as TT’s most wanted man is out of jail after securing $200,000 bail last Friday. He was charged with kidnapping Yves Ayoung Chee.
After eluding police for several weeks, Lovell turned himself in last Wednesday. He is entitled to bail under current kidnapping legislation since the Opposition United National Congress did not support the clause which would have made kidnapping a non-bailable offence.

Pool death mysteries

HOW COULD a teenager drown in a swimming pool during a poolside party at the same swimming pool?

We are totally mystified by the death of 19-year-old Adrian Sylvester whose body was pulled out of the pool at the Petrotrin Beach Camp Sporting Club facilities, Santa Flora, early on Saturday morning. Our information is that Adrian, the son of Acting Inspector Glenn Sylvester, drowned while attending a public fete hosted by CB Promotions. At around 3.30 am, some persons attending the party spotted Adrian’s body at the bottom of the pool. After he was fished out, emergency attempts were made to resuscitate him, but they proved futile. We expect that the Police will make a thorough investigation into the strange circumstances of Adrian’s death and that an autopsy will be conducted to determine exactly how the teenager died and an inquest will follow some time later.

On the face of these facts, we find it bizarre that an apparently strong, able-bodied teenager could drown in a swimming pool while there were people at the poolside enjoying themselves at a party. Did he fall in by accident? And if he did, didn’t he make a splash? Didn’t he not get in a panic and shout for help? Were there other persons in the pool who could have assisted him? How could no one in this party detect that he was in trouble until it was too late? Something seems terribly wrong here. Adrian’s father told Newsday that, after hearing about his son’s death, he went down to the pool to find out what had happened. He said: “From what I am hearing there were no lifeguards on duty,” adding that his son was not competent swimmer. Can this be really true? If it is, then it seems to us an act of gross irresponsibility for anyone to organise a public fete around a swimming pool and not take measures to ensure the safety of patrons by having life guards on duty. What makes Adrian’s drowning even more disturbing is the fact that a number of youngsters have met their deaths in similar circumstances within recent times.

On Monday August 4, Dwight Alvarez, 17-year-old son of police corporal Matthew Alvarez drowned at the Petrotrin Staff Club pool at Pointe-a-Pierre. About five years ago, the body of eleven-year-old Akiel Chambers was fished out of the back yard swimming pool at the Haleland Park residence of businessman Charles James during a birthday party. The circumstances surrounding the death of Chambers, however, seem particularly suspicious, indicating that foul play may well be involved. The little boy’s body was discovered lying in the pool in a crouched position and a post mortem examination subsequently revealed there was spermatozoa in his rectum. We sincerely hope that our criminal justice system will be equal to the task of solving these swimming pool mysteries so that any criminal activity would be exposed and the perpetrators get what they deserve. However, it is important in the interest of general safety, including the safety of members of the public, to call on persons holding parties and fetes around swimming pools or even at private homes having such pools to take every measure to ensure that no one’s life can be imperilled while attending such functions. We believe that the number of swimmers in our population is in the minority and, therefore, proper safety precautions must be taken, including having life guards on duty.

Opposing for opposing sake


The following distinction has sometimes been suggested, between a statesman and a politician: “A politician thinks primarily of the next election and a statesman’s thinking is primarily concerned with the next generation or, in other words, the overriding interests of his/her country.” One could add a third category: The two-bit political opportunist who may be so preoccupied with his own personal or political survival that, beyond “covering his ass,” as the Americans say, everything else pales into insignificance and must necessarily take a back-seat.

Now, at the risk of seeming more “learned” than I actually am, I can’t help noting that it’s probably only in the protracted shadow of historical perspective that we can possibly discern which, if any, of our politicians (including Prime Ministers) fall within what, if any, of afore-mentioned categories. Just how do our politicians actually regard us? Please ask yourself this question. Given their demonstrably “donkey cart” political styles, it’s not surprising, as one singer sang: “Dem boys with their hidden agendas and their mind-benders will always do their do.” Another group of singers sang how, “Dey take we for fools wid dey kissin babies and dey knocking at we door (at election time) and dey promisin and dey promisin and dey forgettin what dey promisin.” As far as the political leaders and misleaders are concerned it’s a question of, “Doh fret yuh fat, as soon as the election bell rings, every zandolee go find its hole — no matter what frog wears which party symbol.”

As a matter of fact, we electoral tadpoles should take a good look at the nameless, faceless frogs presented with great fanfare by the “Frog-in-Chief” since we’ll only be having the dubious pleasure of seeing them twice — the first and the last time. Do we, their little “froglets” deserve any greater courtesy? It didn’t even sound funny when, at some point in the last local election, a number of persons (pardon me, froglets) had voted for hours, using the wrong ballot papers, before the mistake was discovered. Reminds me of the story of the thief who broke into the Kremlin and stole the results of forthcoming elections. Jamaican politician Alexander Bustamante used to be quite blunt and to the point, when he would tell his supporters, “If I tell you to vote for a dog, vote for that dog!” Dr Eric Williams is supposed to have quipped that if he put a crapaud (frog) in a balisier tie, the PNM supporters would vote for it. Whether Williams said this or not, it was certainly consistent with some of his behaviour patterns. However, few might remember that a number of constituencies defied the Doc and insisted on having candidates of their choice which the Doc had heretofore rejected. A vengeful Williams drew last blood as he publicly, without substantiation, publicly deemed them “millstones” and banished them to the “back benches.” In that regard, the election could be regarded as a “roll call” of tadpoles to indicate the choice of “Frog-in-Chief” and his retinue of “toadies.”

Now, I’m aware that there has been quite a lot of hot air about confusion between the Westminster model as it obtains in England and the Westminster muddle that obtains locally. I do not wish to elaborate on this, here and now. But it strikes me as a bit odd that beyond the point of “scoring points and settling scores,” our political leaders and misleaders cannot perceive a difference between the smaller issues of legitimate partisan differences and the larger national issues that transcend local politics. And so for them, every issue is one that can be exploited as a political football for dubious partisan and personal advantage, even to the detriment of the country as a whole or their support base in particular. Opposing for opposing sake is the order of the day. And whereas both major parties and leaders (if we can still say so) have been to a greater or less extent guilty, Mr Basdeo Panday has taken this absurdity to “higher heights” and could be remembered as the self-destructive “high priest” of such patent absurdity, usually justified by him and his apologists with some smart-ass excuse and half-arsed reasoning.

Which leads me to the crucial and long-festering issue of the “restructuring of the local sugar industry.” It had been used as a partisan political football, subjected to much political tomfoolery. It was also being used as a catalyst (hopefully?) to arouse ethnic tensions and create chaos and confusion in order to create a smokescreen to disguise the naked truth that the UNC leadership, that has ridden on the backs of the sugar workers to fame and fortune, had abandoned them in their hour of dire need, with the only “creative suggestion” from the UNC leader that they should “take to the streets” and/or block traffic in Port-of-Spain in some innovative “Blockorama” misadventure. Yuh think it easy wid politicians who’ve run out of steam, time and constructive ideas! Everyone, familiar with the problem, seems to agree that the sugar industry issue is a national one, time has been running out for a long time, external circumstances would determine its demise or restructuring and it was incumbent on all concerned to ensure a relatively “soft landing,” preferable to a “sudden crash.” The parliamentary Opposition tried to raise the issue as a matter of grave national importance. Unbelievably, the Speaker did not agree. They huffed and puffed and stormed out of the parliament. PM Patrick Manning assured Mr Panday that they could have the debate. Panday backed out of the “Caroni debate” that he had so vociferously sought with the famous words, “Yuh think we born yesterday, eh!” That speaks for itself and says volumes!

Brown sprints into history books

Trinidad and Tobago’s Darrel Brown smashed the world junior record when he clocked 10.01 seconds in winning his quarter-final at the 9th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Stade de France in Paris yesterday.

At exactly 12.30 pm local time, the 18-year-old world junior champion wrote his name in the athletics record books and made a strong statement that he is on track for a medal in the 100 metres final today. Running in lane four, Brown shot down the straightway with the fastest timing of the four quarter-final races and eclipsed the former six-year old world junior record of 10.06 secs held by Englishman Dwain Chambers. The previous record was set at the European Junior Championships, Ljubljana, on July 25, 1997. It was also Brown’s new personal best, which surpassed the 10.08 he clocked when he finished second in his first professional senior race at the PreFontaine Classic on Eugene, Oregon on May 26.

Yesterday, he once again displayed smooth acceleration and impressive speed as he out-sprinted  Englishmen Darren Campbell (10.14) and Mark Lewis-Francis (10.18); and Ghanaian Eric Nkansah (10.15) who placed third. Former world junior champion Francis-Lewis was fourth while the 2003 Pan-American 100-metre gold-medallist Michael Frater (Jamaica) placed fifth in 10.25 and was eliminated. In the first round, Brown clocked 10.10 secs and finished a creditable second to the American world record holder Tim Montgomery who posted 10.07, the second fastest time among the first round qualifiers. Speaking to a CSTN reporter after he established the new world junior mark, a panting Brown said: “I feeling very happy. I have been training the whole year for this and now finally I have the record.” He faces a sterner test today when he battles defending champion Maurice Greene, compatriot Boldon, Chambers and Nigerian Deji Aliu among the starting line-up. But he is ready to enter his name into the record books once again and become the youngest athlete to make the final of the premier event at the World Championships.

Montgomery returned to win the first of the four quarter-finals in a fast 10.04 secs while Kittitian Commonwealth champion Kim Collins was first home in last “quarters” in 10.02 ahead of European champion Chambers (10.03), Olympics champion Greene (10.04) and Aliu (10.04). However, the most encouraging result was the time returned by quadruple Olympic medallist Boldon who took advantage of the disqualification of American Jon Drummond and Jamaican Asafa Powell for beating the gun. Boldon, a former world 200 metres champion, who was third in his first round heat with a 10.23 timing, showed very good form and sustained the speed for 10.09 secs, his best time for the year. TT’s other entrant Marc Burns, the world junior runner-up, placed fourth in the first round with a time of 10.28 and did not advance to the “quarters”. In that race, defending champion Greene was second to Nkansah with both runners credited with a similar time of 10.18.Third place went to Nigerian Uchena Emedolu (10.23).
 
World Championships 100m
Quarter-Finals Results
Heat One:
1 TIM MONTGOMERY (USA)- 10.04 secs ; 2 Bernard Williams (USA)- 10.12 ; 3 Vries Sherwin (RSA)- 10.18 ; 4 Ashara Nobuharu (Jpn)-10.23
Heat Two:
1 ATO BOLDON (TT)- 10.09 secs ; 2 Uchena Emedolu (NG)- 10.13; 3 Nicolas Macrozonaris (Can)- 10.16 ; 4 Ronald Pognon (Fran)- 10.23 (tied); 5 Dwight Thomas (Jam)- 10.23 (tied)
Heat Three:
1 DARREL BROWN (TT)- 10.01 secs (WJ) ; 2 Darren Campbell (GB)- 10.14; 3 Eric Nkansah (Gh)- 10.15; 4 Mark Francis-Lewis- 10.18;
Heat Four:
1 KIM COLLINS (StK)- 10.02 secs ; 2 Dwain Chambers (GB)- 10.033; 3 Maurice Greene (USA)- 10.04; 4 Deji Aliu (NGR)- 10.04

Under-19s bowled out for 172

GEORGETOWN:  Trinidad and Tobago opening batsman Tishan Maraj hit a topscore 54 to guide his team to 172 all out on opening day of their TCL Group West Indies Under-19 semi-final at Wales. 

Next best score came from lower-order batsman Johnathon Augustus who got 36. Kevin Stoute was best Bajan bowler taking three wickets for 27 runs, while Barrington Yearwood got three for 38 and Renaldo Parris, two for 13. At the close, Barbados were on four runs for no wicket. In the other semi-final between hosts Guyana and Windward Islands, 17 wickets tumbled for only 154 runs. After being bowled out for 96 runs, the Guyanese reduced the Windwards to 58 for seven wickets. When Guyana batted, they found Earvin Fredericks who took three wickets for 19 runs, Liam Sebastien, three for 22, Mervin Martthews, two for 10, and Jean Paul, two for 26, difficult to handle. But in their turn, Zaheer Mohammed claimed three wickets for 21 runs; and Assad Fudadin. two for eight.


Summarised scores:
At Wales: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO 172 – T Maraj 54, J Augustus 36, K Stoute 3/27, B Yearwood 3/38, R Parris 2/13 vs BARBADOS four for no wicket.
At Enmore: GUYANA 96 – Assad Fudadin 38, E Fredericks 3/19, L Sebastien 3/22, M Matthews 2/10, J Paul 2/26 vs WINDWARDS 58/7 – Z Mohammed 3/21, Assad Fudadin 2/8.

Jabloteh continue winning ways

CHAMPIONS CL Financial Jabloteh continued their triumphant unbeaten march in the T&T Pro League when they shut out Starworld Strikers 3-0 at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella yesterday. Victory extended their lead over W Connection to 11 points, as the Savonetta-based team were idle yesterday, with opponents Caledonia AIA on tour in Antigua.

Cornel Glenn put Jabloteh on the victory road in the 15th minute with a right-footed blast. And Devon Mitchell made his contribution in the 38th minute for a comfortable 2-0 half-time lead. After the interval, Strikers made a valiant effort to get back into the match  and kept Jabloteh at bay until the 80th minute when Celestine Phillip put the issue out of their reach. At the Larry Gomes Stadium, Malabar, Arima Fire whipped Tobago United 2-1 after Wayne Ellis scored in the 18th minute to give the firemen a 1-0 interval lead. Anton Elliot banged in a powerful shot to make it 2-0 in the 55th  minute before Sean Job got an 85th minute consolation for the team from the sister isle. With the victory, Fire now have 10 points and leap-frogged two places from the bottom. The match betweeen Defence Force and Joe Public at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo was not played because the ground was not properly marked.

Connection in Under-15, Under-17 finals

W CONNECTION advanced to Saturday’s finals of the inaugural Under-15 and Under-17 T&T Pro League competitions with comfortable wins over Arima Fire and South Starworld Strikers on Saturday.

Under humid conditions at Gilbert Park, Couva, the Connection Under-15s whipped Fire 3-0 with Keron Smith slamming a double and ace striker Aaron Downing scoring the other. And, against a pesky Starworld outfit in the Under-17 “semi”, also at Gilbert Park, California, Connection cruised to a 3-0 victory with goals from Devon Drayton, Gorean “Mickey Rat” Highley and Jerron Johnson. The Savonetta lads will face Arima Fire in the Under-17 final, after the Arimians pipped South West Institute of Football (SWIF) 2-1 at the Palo Seco Recreation Ground, Palo Seco yesterday. Keshon Hunte and Marlon Whiteman found the back of the net for the visitors, who will provide a stern test for Connection in the decider. But Joe Public needed a golden goal from Shastri Spencer to defeat CL Financial San Juan Jabloteh in yesterday’s other Under-15 semi at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo. Both the “Eastern Lions” and Jabloteh battled to a 1-1 draw after 60 minutes of full-time, with Dennis Williams scoring the equaliser for Jabloteh.

Sugar Mike, ‘Phantom’ shine at gallops

HORSES nominated for the Inde-pendence Cup on September 1, were out in their numbers on the exercise course at Santa Rosa Park , Arima,  yesterday. They showed their form  to early railbirds leading up to the $200,000 Sagico-sponsored event.

Phantom Bidder whose colours were lowered by Sugar Mike in the President’s Cup earlier this month sharpened up for the 1850 metres turf event with a 35.86 clocking over the last 600 metres. The John O’Brian-trained colt started his run from the 1000 metres marker and was reported to have completed the full distance in one minute flat. Trainer Grant Lourenco’s pair of Sugar Mike and Invincibility followed a few minutes later and kept interest alive. They literally lighted up clocker’s corner in their spin over the last 1000 metres of the course which was loose before being watered during the break. The pair stuck to each other as if glued from the start, and was only separated in the last 100 metres when Sugar Mike was urged on by his race-day rider Brian Harding. Sugar Mike drew away by at least two lengths and was the better at the end. The Mike Samlalsingh-owned colt went under the one minute barrier by .70 of a second, recording a 59.30, with his younger companion touching the line in 1:01. Both were afforded “goods” in the ramarks column of the Arima Race Club official clocker’s report.

Smooth Operator has won the majority of his races on the turf and over sprint distances. He will be matching strides with the top stayers in Monday’s Grade One event and had a light round before stretching out over the same acreage in 1:08.92 seconds. Outswinger yet to run a bad race over extreme distances went at a steady clip from the 1200 metre marker to the winning pole in an easy 1:22 seconds. And Golden Shufleur, now racing in owner/trainer Harold Chadee’s colours had a steady run, completing the last 600 metres in 40.57 seconds. Carnival Messiah ducked out from his Saturday engagement won by stablemate Top Of The Class, was seen out in the early hours after the track was opened at 5.30 am. The 2001 Triple crown winner went at a steady pace before quickening over the last 600 metres in 37.77, seconds. Hard Dancer, one of three Barbadian hopefuls which arrived last week, came out from his quarantine barn and acquainted himself with the track, but was only sent jogging.


Following are yesterday’s recorded gallops:
400 METRES: Ex Narciss Toi – 29.15, pacing; Calypso Rose – 26.01, handily; Island Chimes – 26.36, handily; Mighty Rose, Joint Account and French Academy – 25.77, handily; Bold Fapp – 24.31, good; Ex Love Movement- 29.99, pacing; Guardian Angel – 24.05, good.
600 METRES: Phantom Bidder – 35.86, good; What Left – 36.38, good; Kay Gee Bee – 41.77, pacing; Caribbean Princess and Royal Miss – 42.72, pacing; Classy Kim – 37.16, good; Final Set and Hearts Of Fire – 44.62, pacing; Pile Of Cash – 41.03, handily; Living In Hope – 44.05, pacing; Yaa Asantewaa and Underinfluence – 36.20, good; Sure Honey – 39.03, handily; Too Sharp and J D’s Express – 44.99, pacing; Ex Crackajack and Ex Smoothawn – 40.58, handily; Hassan and Caribbean Kiss – 39.67, handily; Carnival Messiah – 37.77, handily; Saadiya – 53.26, pacing; Bold Blush and Rocket Booster – 38.46, handily; Ex Little Rose – 42.06, pacing; Trini To The Bone, Dead Sure and Alamanamou – 43.36, pacing; Ex If You Do, Smart And Lucky and Fabulous Risk – 38.22, handily; Cat Woman – 42.29, pacing; Movietowne Magic – 38.59, easy; Golden Shufleur – 40.57, easy; Fortunate Flag – 42.23, pacing; Sure Wager – 54.79, handily; Bonus Point – 43.15, pacing; Skye – 43.97, pacing; Ex Silver Symphony and Ex Renew The Dream – 39.43, handily; Not This Time, Blue Reign and Florida Flame – 35.17, good; Royal Reality and Zalyam – 38.66, handily; Soui Asylum – 39.71, handily; Be My Hero, Bank Account and Breezy Hill – 42.61, pacing; Balybunion – 37.73, handily; Poetry – 36.39, good; Ooze better than A Grand Old Song – 36.28, good.  .
800 METRES: Tactical Bid – 47.31, good; Super Gray – 50.31, good; Sir Vidia and Cold Risk – 47.98, good; Hundred Percent – 55.56, pacing; Outburst – 54.87, handily; Hunt The Magic – 59.87, pacing; Return To Sender and Samana Song – 59.99, pacing; Finest Gem and Fantastic Lad – 51.58, handily; Regent Boy – 57.08, pacing; Affirm Decision – 50.27, good; My Son John – 58.76, pacing; Mucho Tempo and Blondie – 53.35, handily;  Undisputed – 55.68, pacing; Badpayjamesee – 56.89, pacing; Female Bandit – 52.36, handily.
1000 METRES: Sugar Mike – 59.30, good; Invincibility – 1:01.00, good; Kalyan – 1:02.69, good; Beautiful Mind – 1:02.37, good; Van Nistelrooy – 1:03.09, good; X To Board and V For Victory – 1:10.23, pacing; Toronto Star – 1:04.06, handily; Full Of Promises – 1:05.93; Ruby Scores – 1:08.03, handily; Smooth Operator – 1:08.92, handily; Sweet Tempo – 1:10.36, handily; Not Another Noble – 1:11.50, pacing.
1200 METRES: Outswinger – 1:20.00, handily. The Chairman – 1:22.38, handily. Dunsborough – 1:25.88, pacing.