Pakistan Derby 2023: Safdar Hussain becomes new National Derby Champion

• Pakistan Derby 2023 won by a 4-year-old horse.
• Safdar Hussain becoming the new champion.
• There was a fierce competition between nine horses.

The biggest horse race of the year Pakistan Derby 2023 was won by a horse named “Pakistani Star”, rider Safdar Hussain became the new National Derby Champion. Ijaz Waseem Bakhri reported from Lahore.

Young jockey Safdar Hussain won the title by winning in the biggest annual horse racing competition in Pakistan Derby race at Lahore Race Club.

There was a fierce competition between nine horses in the 2400 meter race, a four-year-old horse named Pakistani Star overtook everyone and won.

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The winning horse ‘Pakistani Star’ completed the set distance in a record two minutes and thirty one seconds. Safdar Hussain, the rider of Pakistani Star, became the new champion, while the owner of the horse Haji Chaudhry Asghar Ali, was given a prize money of four lakh rupees.

In other races, the National Breeders’ Cup went to Jim and Tonk, the Stewards’ Cup was won by Neymar and Fast and Furious won the LRC Cup.

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