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Trainer L V R Deshmukh leading Krystallos (P Sai Kumar up), winner of The Taj Mahal Plate Having played second fiddle twice in the lower class earlier this season, the Vittal Deshmukh schooled gelding Krystallos found his way to the winner’s enclosure when competing in the higher class. Krystallos came well from the widest stall to take charge of the running and showed the way to Dapper Look and Lucky Zone, who were ahead of the horses closely bunched behind.

Mrs Liane Luthria and trainer P Shroff leading Bishop (Vivek G up), winner of The N. K. Pudumjee Salver Following his Pune Derby success earlier, jockey Vivek G. was still riding high on adrenaline and went on to steer Bishop to a confident victory over favourite Giacomo before completing an encore in the NK Pudumjee Salver. Pesi Shroff-saddled Bishop slipped into the lead as soon as the gates flew open and showed the way to the field with Tyrannus and Earth in close attendance.

Although there were only five aspirants for this year’s edition of the Villoo C. Poonawalla Pune Derby (Gr.1), the career records of the three runners — Beast Mode, Iron Mirage, and Jaandaar, spiked the racegoers’ interest in this event. Mansingh Jadhav’s candidate Beast Mode and Pesi Shroff’s ward Jaandaar, both sporting the colours of Mr Vijay B.

The cruel and gruelling two-mile contest for the Suresh Mahindra Trophy was expected to be a close contest between Winfield, Golden Dancer, and Endurance. However, Dallas Todywalla-saddled Golden Dancer (Deauville – Xisca) hit the front in a slow-run race and jockey Akshay Kumar controlled the pace astutely to register a start-to-finish victory over Endurance and Winfield, who followed the winner home.

Unbeaten from his last six starts, top sprinter Money Bags from champion trainer Prasanna Kumar's yard emerged champ in the Zavaray Poonawalla Dasara Sprint Championship and on the strength of his half-dozen facile wins is certain to start favourite in the Sprinters' Cup during the Derby and the Invitation Cup week-end scheduled to be held on Oct 24 & 25.

Dr Cyrus S. Poonawalla was felicitated last evening at the 60th Conference of the IFHA [International Federation of Horseracing Authorities] held in Paris.

Trainer K Satheesh leading Love In Paris (Akshay Kumar up), winner of The Charminar Trophy The six-year-old Ragnarok’s long wait to step into the winner’s enclosure ended on Monday when he claimed the Royal Calcutta Turf Club Trophy (Div-II). Trainer Donald Netto’s decision to engage 5kg-claimer Surendra Singh to ride helped Ragnarok to deliver the goods.

Mr Rakesh Reddy Kondakalla and trainer Mr Robin Reddy Kondakalla leading Perception (Akshay Kumar up), winner of The Turf Authorities Of India Trophy Having failed to keep his winning streak after losing in both his previous outings, Perception returned to the winner’s enclosure with a thumping victory in the Turf Authorities of India Trophy, the supporting event on the Derby day.

Destroying the reputation of a few contestants including outstation contenders, Magan Singh Parmar-groomed Buddy recorded a stunning upset in the Race2Win Foundation-sponsored Hyderabad Deccan Derby on Sunday. As there were hardly any runners who had shown the stamina to tackle the mile and a quarter journey at the young age of three, the betting started at 5 to 1 for Madante and the trend did not reflect spontaneous betting on any horse. When the field of fourteen left the gates, jockey K.

Saiko, which translates to ‘the best’ in Japanese, lived up to his name as saddle artist Sandesh brought him with a thunderous gallop in the straight to peg back Shrishti in the last stride and lift the season’s piece de resistance – The Gaitform Calcutta Monsoon Derby -for veteran champion trainer Vijay Singh at RCTC on Saturday.