Three winners smash 1100m course record

PENANG:  May 7, 2011

On the third racing day after its reopening, the Penang track yielded its first course record when not one but three winners bettered the previous record over the 1100m.

RUSH HOUR (Manner Hill - Amber Lunch by Lunchtime), whose only previous win came 14 months ago, covered the distance in 1 min 3.8 secs., slicing 1.2 second off the previous record set by NEW TARGET in 2009.

RUSH HOUR returned RM1,232 on the win tote, the highest payout since the unit bet for win and place was raised from RM5 to RM10 in March.

Two subsequent winners, however, failed to match his time.

FULL POWER (My Halo - Zingla by Danasinga) returned 1 min 4.2 secs while BLAZING POWER (Clang - Angel of Harlem by Switch In Time) clocked 1 min 4.1 secs.

It is a matter of time that the other course records which have stood for years will fall in the coming days and weeks.

TURF SPEC (Magic Of Money - Bonhomie Gal by Bletchley Park), who romped to an easy win in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Anniversary Cup, returned a time of 1 min 22.6 secs which was just 0.9 second outside of the course record set by JERAM NEW VILLAGE in 2005.

MUDHISH (Redoute's Choice - Alzahra by Sir Cat), who chalked up his second win in six starts in Malaysia in the Class 3 - 1200m sprint, went within 0.2 second of the course record shared jointly by KING'S SEAL (1993) and I'M DEWAN (1999) when he clocked 1 min 9.5 secs.

RESULTS AT A GLANCE

1

 CLASS 5 - 1400M

12

 Stone Crab Sukri Aify

1

10

 Golden Treasure R Lines J Low

2

3

 Dressed To Impress Robert Salee

3

9

 Texas T Gillespie Mohammad

4

2

 CLASS 4 - 1700M

1

 Fight To Live R Lines Wepner

1

4

 Big Red Point Tiang H S Gill

2

8

 Lion City Hero T Gillespie H K Cheng

3

11

 Amazing Surprise J Tan Sani

4

3

 CLASS 4 - 1100M

13

 Rush Hour Brogan K T Cheng

1

1

 Black Arrow Robert Salee

2

7

 Money Trap K L Chong J Shankar

3

2

 Best Sargen R Lines Z Zuriman

4

4

 CLASS 4 - 1100M

7

 Full Power K Coetzee Azhar

1

4

 Meteor One S H Tan K Eirwan

2

2

 New Power Wong M Marques

3

10

 Speed Leopard H S Lim H K Cheng

4

5

 CLASS 4 - 1100M

1

 Blazing Power Sukri P Praem

1

9

 Black Genius Robert K Eirwan

2

2

 Olympic Flame T Gillespie Salee

3

4

 Red Warrior R Lines Aify

4

6

 TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN ANNIVERSARY CUP - 1400M

2

 Turf Spec S H Tan K Eirwan

1

4

 Beautiful Choice McGillivray Woodworth

2

6

 Super Cop Brogan KN T Cheng

3

1

 Lightningofmalaya Tiang Sofhan

4

7

 RESTRICTED MAIDEN - 1200M

13

 Last Owner Tiang H S Gill

1

8

 Paper Weight K Coetzee Azhar

2

7

 Mischief S Cook R Joorawon

3

1

 Distant Glory J Tan Woodworth

4

8

 RESTRICTED MAIDEN - 1200M

6

 Free Gift K Coetzee Azhar

1

12

 Show Biz Thwaites M Marques

2

8

 Honest Beng T Gillespie Woodworth

3

7

 Good Recommend K Coetzee B N Kumar

4

9

 CLASS 3 - 1200M

8

 Mudhish A Selvaratnam J Low

1

5

 Cizen World Robert Woodworth

2

4

 Jeram Delight T Yeoh L L Tai

3

3

 Fire Kingdom McGillivray L Ho

4