18 February,2024 08:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Prakash Gosavi
Mahalaxmi racecourse in Mumbai. Pic/Shadab Khan
Supernatural, trained by Pesi Shroff, posted a facile victory in the Madras Race Club Cup, the feature event of Sunday's eight-race Mahalaxmi card. Jockey P Trevor settled Supernatural last of three as Kamaria set a leisurely pace ahead of Truly Epic, and after negotiating the final turn, Trevor just nudged the piping hot on-money favourite, who passed both his rivals in a trice, and sailed away for an eight-length victory.
Trevor rode another Shroff-trained winner when, lying second from last, he brought bay filly Mariana (Admiralty - Age Of Elegance) with a flourish, covering more than six lengths to overhaul leader Zarafat who had assumed command soon on turning for home. Mariana won the Fun Fast Fair Trophy by Sportsbet.io clocking 1m:38.783s for the mile trip.
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Trevor was clearly on a roll by this time, and immediately in the next race, rode yet another winner to complete a quick hat-trick, this time for trainer Malesh Narredu, whose Eaton Square outclassed the field in the Sonny Brar Trophy.
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The ace jockey thus marched to the top of the championship tally board, tying up with S Saqlain at 12 points each, attempted a straight fourth win in the upper division of the Indian Air Force Trophy, giving a vigorous ride to the Karthik-trained Lord Vader, only to get upstaged in the last 25m when apprentice Haridas Gore astride the Faisal Abbas-trained nine-year-old Cipher swooped onto him to snatch the race. The lower division of the same race was won by Nairobi (MS Deora up), saddled by trainer Vinesh.
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The card opened with the Sportsbet.io Prestige Mile, for class III horses, which saw three of the five horses in the fray--Bubbly Boy, Kariena & Opus sharing favouritism jointly at 5/2 each in the bookmakers' ring. However, on the racetrack none of the three, despite all-out effort by their riders, could threaten the Narendra Lagad-trained Alpine Star who was taken on a successful start-to-finish mission by jockey Mustakim Alam.
Three horses were separated by half a length in the Sportsbet.io Million, Gambino (Top Class - Jersey Beauty), ridden by Neeraj Rawal, managing to put his neck ahead in virtually the last stride. Gambino was trained by G Karthik, who also claimed the World's Oldest Barbershop Trophy with Caliph (R Ajinkya up).