MANILA, Philippines — The 2019 World Slasher Cup 9-Cock Invitational Derby opens today at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, with a formidable team of foreign gamefowl breeders heading the field.
Dink Fair of Kentucky, USA, a cockfighting legend like Johhny Jumper, Ray Alexander, Duke Hulsey and Ted Maclean since the 1970s, climbs the Big Dome rueda today in partnership with Tagum City businessman Larry Rubinos.
Rubinos himself will host the 5M Tagum 6-Cock/Bullstag Derby which starts on Feb. 12.
Fair, known for his Millionaire 5k lines (sweater, moonwalker, golden boy and yellow legged hatch) will attend the LYR Excellence Gamefowl Summit next month.
Supported by Pitgames Media of CEO Manny Berbano, the WSC Cup will run until Feb. 6 with Pintakasi of Champions as host.
The foreign entries will be fielded by Lonnie Harper of Mule Train fame, Richard Martinez of Texas with Domi Corpuz (Hi Ace Ranch USA) and Lito Guerra of Chocolate Gamefarm, Bruce Brown, Mike Formosa, Erik Rosales and Robert Dominguez (California), Nathan Jumper (Mississippi), Butch Cambra and Cris Castillo, (Hawaii), Tim Fitzgerald (Utah), Marty Bently and Brett Mccormick (Ohio);
Bobby Fairchild (Kentucky), Glenn Camacho (Guam), Ernest Atkins and Brent Douglas (Oklahoma), Joey Melendez and Rene Penalosa (Australia), Soan Sogianto (Indonesia), Mark Salazar (Malaysia) and more.
Interested parties may call up the WSC derby office at 588-4000 loc 8227 or 911-2928; or visit http://www.worldslashercup.ph.
Thunderbird, Emperador and Powertrac are among the sponsors.
The WSC Cup 2 is scheduled on May 27-June 2.