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Royal Salute graduates in tough company

  June 27 , 2015
   

The Prasanna Kumar trained Royal Salute produced a strong pillar to post effort to record an encore in the 1400 metres Patrons Cup, a race for horses rated 80 and above, the feature event of Saturday`s races. Royal Salute who had finished a close third to Smile stone over a sprit last time out, showed quantum improvement over an extended furlong and had had the race firmly in his grip right from the word `go` to win easier than expected.

Trainer Pesi Shroff has been finding winners hard to come by this season in Bangalore. The champion trainer used to dominate the big races with a handful of horses that he would bring for summering. However, things have been very different this time and he has had just one success through Admiralty which however broke down after a win that promised his dominance in classics. The trainer has run Your Royal Majesty three times already and his fourth start saw the horse strongly supported to win because he was running in a handicap race over seven furlongs which was his forte. However, the trainer`s belief that Your Royal Majesty may not handle the softer and the shifty ground came true as the hat-tricker at Mumbai struggled and eventually finished a poor fourth. Royal Salute who has been pretty consistent was determined to make his presence felt and he chose to do the way he is comfortable with. He led every yard of the trip and in the final yards, strode powerfully to have the race sewn up long way from home. Vivid Impression who had been well backed, failed to get a favourable position early on and by the time he could get a clear run along the rails, the front runner had established a winning lead. Vivid Impression finished on well but could not prevent Booker Jones from nosing her out for the runner up berth.
  
  


Padmanabhan trained Baracchus held off stablemate Aashikaara and Lucia to claim the honors in an eventful 1600 metres Y S Surender Memorial Cup, a race for horses rated 60 and above, named after a passionate Chairman of the Bangalore Turf Club. Absolute Redd led the field with Baracchus in a handy second position, racing keen and giving lot of problems to jockey Zervan as he wanted to have things his way. Lucia who was the second favourite was tucked in about fourth or fifth position till well into the straight. Baracchus quickly took over the running inside the final two furlongs and went sailing clear. Lucia came though the middle while Aashikaara shifted out under pressure. Baracchus shaped to win comfortably but he began to veer out alarmingly as he appeared to have come under pressure too soon. Luckily the jockey managed to prevent Baracchus from severely interfering with Lucia. Zervan managed to drive out Baracchus to win from Aashikaara who came up with a strong effort on the wide outside and snatched the runner up berth by a whisker in the final stride of the race from Lucia. This perhaps prevented a possible objection from Suraj who rode Lucia against Zervan who rode the winner. This was the third win for Baracchus after he had a double tie back operation but his coming under pressure perhaps suggested that the wind problem could have resurfaced. Parushram, Arabian Warrior and Connemara failed to put up any show.

The sparingly raced West Side Story appeared to have regained the form that he displayed as a three year old as evidenced by her track work. Accordingly, she was backed with conviction from a higher quote to favouritism in the 1200 metres R S Nagendra Kumar Memorial Trophy, a race for horses rated 40 to 65. The odds drift on last start winner Super Queen had its own tale to tell. Jockey Imran Chisty had West Side Story dictate the pace from the start and the progeny of C P West skipped away from the rest to win as she pleased from late rallying Super Force and log shot Glittering.

The nine furlongs Ich Dien Plate, a race for horses rated 20 to 45, saw one sided support for Malesh Narredu trained The Way I Am. The favourite who travelled a handy second into the straight, took charge of the proceedings on straightening for home and shaped to oblige huge expectations. However, the seasoned Turf Tactics came up with a tremendous run from way behind and went sailing clear inside the final 100 metres to display the form of old. Fair Fax who is a full sister to multiple classic winner Alaindair was third while the progeny of Dylan Thomas, Summer Mane who was expected to find his bearings over this trip, disappointed with a dismal performance.

Passion Flora was the favourite for the 1400 metres Bhishma Plate, a race for horses rated 20 to 45 on the basis of the filly`s eye-catching second behind Volcano. However, the trust was misplaced. Trainer Lokanath rarely wins on a fancied runner and one does not remember when his jockey Vaibhav had his last win. Under the circumstances, the abject failure of Passion Flora was not entirely unexpected. The reliability factor of this particular connection is too poor for people not to take cognizance of. Last start winner Trapezoid led all the way an had no challengers nearby as the four year old checked in way ahead of Goodwill Warrior and Queens Solitaire. Favourite Androstos finally broke the jinx, winning the lower division of the race, by the skin of his teeth. Androstos was hard pressed close home by What A Wonder who however failed by the proverbial whisker.

One could not believe the kind of support that debutant Silver Legend got in the 1200 metres Red Divine Plate, a race for maiden three year olds. The buzz was that Silver Legend was something special and that he would swamp the opposition. However, Silver Legend ran poorly and was never in contention. Only Princess led from the start and tried to assert his supremacy in the final furlong but had no answer when Sea Fairey swooped on her with a powerful surge. Sea Fairey went away for an easy win. Hyderabad challenger Byron Bay who looked far from ready nevertheless ran a fair third but then there are reports that this horse has a litany of problems to be attended to.

 
 
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