Results – Kolkata

SCARLET WITCH (Asghar) which was difficult to load, was slow to begin. FOOL PROOF (Md Imran) and MEMORABLE MEMORIES (Arman Khan) were slow to begin.

LE MARC (Vinay Jaiswal) was observed to be trailing the field during the initial and middle stages of the race. Tr. Vikash Jaiswal was advised not to accept with his charge until it was capable of a better performance. SHAMSHIR SWORD (App Sujit Kr Paswan) had to be checked by its rider passing the 600 metres as KNOTTY OAK (Shezad Khan) running in front of him started dropping back rapidly. KNOTTY OAK (Shezad Khan) ran detached from the field. Tr. Vikash Jaiswal was advised not to accept with his charge until it was capable of a better performance. Jockey Md. Islam, the rider of TOPNOTCH, was reprimanded for unnecessarily travelling wide in the initial and middle stages of the race.

SILVER BRACELET (App Hasib Alam) and SEA OF CORTEZ (App Sujit Kr Paswan) were difficult to load. Trs. Vijay Singh and Neil Darashah were advised to give their respective charges adequate gate practice before accepting with them. ARECA LEGEND (App Rupal Singh) jumped out awkwardly from the gates inconveniencing MALWA (P S Chouhan).

SHIVANSH (R S Bhati) which was slow to begin, veered out to the outer portion of the race track passing the distance post. Tr. Vijay Singh was advised to take appropriate remedial measures.

KAMILAH (C S Jodha) stumbled soon after the start. SCRUPLES (A Sandesh) was difficult to load. Jockey A Sandesh, the rider of SCRUPLES, was fined a sum of Rs. 3,000/- for the excessive use of the whip (1st infringement).

UNSTOPPABLE (App Slujit Kr Paswan) was extremely difficult to load. Tr. Shafiq Khan was advised to give his charge adequate gate practice before accepting with it again. BASHARAT (R S Bhati) was slow to begin. Tr. Bharath Singh when afforded an opportunity to explain the poor performance of his charge b f SUESTADO as compared to its previous performance in Race No. 39 of the just concluded Calcutta Monsoon Meeting held on 24th October, 2021, stated that “as in her last outing the filly was very sluggish I had instructed Jockey A Sandesh to avail advantage of him having an inside drawn (dr. 2), take a good jump, place the filly in a good position to avoid the big field in the race and thereafter to do his best. However, on jumping out the jockey went to the front and the filly had nothing much to offer during the final stages of the race as was informed by the Jockey”. On questioning Jockey A Sandesh corroborated the Trainer’s instructions. The Jockey continued by stating that he had followed the Trainer’s instructions, however, passing the 300 metres the filly started dropping back in spite of his best efforts and had nothing much to offer. Their explanations were noted.