adminTakudzwa Chitsiga Sports Reporter
YER-MAAN will be the favourite in today’s $40 000 OK Grand Challenge to be run over 1 800m at Borrowdale Park.
The annual race, the 27th edition of the OK Grand Challenge, has attracted a strong line-up.
The field has 14 runners, who include the 2015 Castle Tankard winner, while Equina could also explode to victory.
Despite being the favourite, Yer-Maan will have to contend with Merhaba, Madigan, Got A Hold On Me and Say So Tiger.
Rock The Country, Thriller In Manila, Super Trouper, Two Gun Kid and Menacing are the other horses in the field.
Lucky Sam is 0,5kg better off and Warcraft is now 8,5kgs.
It’s probably easy to say that five-year-old Equina, the only mare in this race, is not the same horse that impressed last year, but her weight advantage can’t be ignored.
Ian Sturgeon rode her in the Tankard and now Equina’s regular jockey Karl Zechner will be holding the reins.
All eyes are likely to be on Yer-Maan, who is a winner over Saturday’s distance, but others he has beaten before, such as Norgay, Super Trouper and Thriller In Manila, may prefer this shorter trip.
Warcraft, Lucky Sam, Equina, and maybe Merhaba, could spoil Yer-Maan’s fun in what promises to be a very close contest.
Final Field
1.(1) Yer-Maan, 2. (6) Lucky Sam, 3. (14) Equina, 4. (13) Super Trouper, 5. (12) Two Gun Kid, 6. (2) War Craft, 7. (8) Norgay, 8. (5) Merhaba, 9. (3) Rock The Country, 10. (11) Madigan, 11. (7) Menacing, 12.(4) Thriller In Manilla, 13. (10) Got A Hold On me, 14.(9) Say So Tiger.
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