Christmas comes early for the Kennard Memorial Turf Club

Representatives of Metro Office and Computer Supplies presented a cheque worth $1,875,000 and the champion’s trophy to President of the Club, Cecil Kennard to aid towards the traditional Boxing Day event.

Recently, office and computer supplies giant, Metro, continued their sponsorship agreement for the traditional Boxing Day meet scheduled to be staged at the Bush Lot, Corentyne track.

During a simple ceremony at the company’s Quamina Street location, its representatives presented a cheque worth $1,875,000 and the champion’s trophy to President of the Club, Cecil Kennard.

This sponsorship will go towards the feature one mile race which carries a winning purse of $1M. The runner-up stable in this event will take home $500,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place, $125,000.