Results – Kolkata

CORVINO (M Maseyk) dr. 2, SHINING EXAMPLE (V Jaiswal) dr. 4 & NAWAB SAHIB (Pawan Sharma) dr. 7 were slow to begin. The respective trainers M/s. T N Jaiswal, Vikash Jaiswal & Jasbir Singh were informed to give their charges adequate gate practice before accepting with them again. The Sr. Veterinary Officer reported that b m ELEMENTAL WISH (App B Srinivas Rao) returned lame on her left fore. Tr. R Alford has been informed not to accept with his charge till certified fit by the Sr. Veterinary Officer.

HAVANA (E Smith) and ARRAYAL (D K Ashish) were troublesome to load thereby delaying the start of the race by two minutes. Tr. Vijay Singh and Jockey C Alford were questioned regarding the running and riding of AXMINSTER placed 3rd by the Judge in the above race. The Trainer stated that :- a) he instructed the Jockey to take a good start, position his mount to the best of its ability and to do his best in the straight. b) he was satisfied with the running of his horse and believes that its failure to finish better was because of its slow beginning.

The Sr. Veterinary Officer was requested to examine ch g ASIATIQUE and submit his report.

App Pradeep Kumar, the rider of SWISS KING, was fined a sum of Rs. 2,500/- for shifting “in” soon after the start thereby causing severe interference to MASTER MARVEL (I Chisty) dr 9, who passed it onto CHOICE OWN (Pawan Sharma) dr. 6, FIRING POWER (Vijay Kumar) travelling behind the latter was inconvenienced. App Pradeep Kumar was shown the video replay of the race and informed that a repetition of a similar manner of riding would entail him being reported to the Stewards for appropriate action. SILENT HUNTER (App Md. Shabbani) and GREAT HEART (App Pintu Das) drifted to the outer part of the race track passing the 400 metres. Both the apprentices were warned to exercise greater control over their mounts in future.

An objection was lodged by Jockey D K Ashish, the rider of LYCIA FALCON placed 2nd by the Judge against FORCES OF DESTINY (Vijay Kumar), placed 1st by the Judge on the grounds of “causing interference when he came in very sharply approaching the 200 metres which cost me a certain race”. Further an objection was lodged by Jockey C Alford, the rider of ARISTOTLE, placed 3rd by the Judge against Jockey Vijay Kumar, the rider of FORCES OF DESTINY, placed 1st by the Judge on the grounds of “causing interference when he came in very sharply in the last 150 metres whereby I had to stop riding which cost me a certain race". Having considered the evidence tendered by Jockeys C Alford, D K Ashish and Vijay Kumar, in conjunction with that of the Stipendiary Stewards, viewing the replay of the race on the CCTV and acting on their own observation of the race, the Stewards resolved to over-rule the objections lodged by Jockeys D K Ashish and C Alford, the Judge’s placings remaining unaltered.

At the request of Jockey C Alford, INDIAN QUEST was re-saddled at the start. PURSUIT OF POWER (Pawan Sharma) was very fractious inside the stall and in the process backed out. The mare was re-loaded. ALAMGIR (Asghar) and VIGNET (Haroon Khan) were very fractious in the stalls.

ANDROLOGY (V Jaiswal) and SOLID SUCCESS (Brij Shaw) were very fractious in the stalls thereby delaying the start of the race.