RUBEN Dimacuha’s Low Profile and Joseph Dyhengco’s Dixie Gold, both 5YO colts, are expected to bear the brunt of the battle in Sunday’s (June 26) 2,000-meter Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office Silver Cup at Santa Ana Park.
Low Profile, to be guided by Mark Alvarez, and Dixie Gold, partnered with Rodeo Fernandez, placed second and third respectively in last year’s PCSO Silver Cup won by longshot Skyway at Metroturf.
Lawyer Narciso Morales is fielding coupled entries – 5YO colt Messi (with jockey JA Guce) and 4YO filly Superv (JB Bacaycay, a Triple Crown leg winner). Not to be discounted are Benhur Abalos’s 4YO filly Gentle Strength (JB Hernandez), Benjamin Abalos III’s 5YO colt Kanlaon, and Ferdinand Eusebio’s 5YO colt Tan Goal (JB Guce).
All colts will carry 55.5 kgs. and fillies 54 kgs.
Previous PCSO Silver Cup winners include such stalwarts as Pugad Lawin (2014), Hagdang Bato (2013), and Magna Carta (2012).
The race was established in 1995 and was first run at the old Santa Ana Park in Makati City. The first winner was Ochie Santos’s Pay D’Clay, ridden by Joe Noel D. Camu and trained by Juanito A. Macaraig.
Another PCSO Silver Cup fact: three horses have won it twice, Streets of Gold in 1998 and 2000, Wind Blown in 2001 and 2002, and Real Spicy in 2006 and 2008.
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The entries for the PCSO July 16 special maiden race open for 2YO now have their assigned jockeys: lawyer Narciso Morales’s colt Stravinsky will be ridden by JB Hernandez; Nicomedes Cruz’s colt Amazing Cole, JB Cordova; Joseph Dyhengco’s colt Street Sign, AP Asuncion; Leonardo Javier Jr.’s filly Foolish Princess, JT Zarate; Mario Morales’s filly Magic Wallet, MV Pilapil; and Jade Bros. Farm’s colt Kid Solis, CP Henson.
This being a set-weight handicap race, all colts will carry 54 kgs. and fillies 52 kgs. The race distance is 1,200 meters, and the trial race will be held July 1 at Santa Ana Park. First place is P600,000, with corresponding prizes up to third place, and a purse of P50,000 for the winning breeder.
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