£5k purse is richest in islands’ race history

Thursday 1st May 2008, 2:29PM BST.

Royal Prodigy (left) will be going for a third win on Guernsey soil on Monday. Crossways (right) has been retired. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0302549)

THE richest ever race in the Channel Islands will be one of three six-horse fields at Monday’s big meeting at L’Ancresse.

A £5,000 purse for the feature third race of five, the Cenkos (CI) Handicap over two miles one furlong, has attracted a well matched field including Roy Hodges’ Royal Prodigy which will be going for a third win on Sarnian soil since the annual event returned in 2005.

Royal Prodigy will be up against two capable horses from Jersey in Koka Fast and Snow Lark, as well as two English challengers. Horse owner and Guernsey Race Club committee man Trevor Gallienne is excited by the quality and number of horses confirmed as declarations.