Results – Mysore

WOOD CUTTER (Ajeet Kumar) was slowly away and lost few lengths at the start. In view of its performance, Trainer Mr. Girinath C was informed that he must not accept with it again until its performance improves to the statisfaction of the Stipendiary Stewards in One Jump Out on a starting gate practice day. Jockey K Sai Kiran, the rider of GABINO, was reprimanded for shifting 'in' and inconveniencing MOONSTRUCK (Sameer Qureshi) on his inside passing the 700 Metres. Jockey L Prashant, the rider of COUNTRY'S SHER, was fined Rs.3,000/- for shifting in and causing severe interference to TIME ALWAYS (A Vishwanath), on his inside, which went onto VROOM VROOM (V R Jagdeesh) and GOLDEN CRUISE (Anil Baandal), on its inside, passing the 1000 Metres. The Stipendiary Stewards questioned Trainer Mr. Prashanth Pawar D and Jockey L Prashant as to the running and riding of COUNTRY'S SHER in the above Race. The Trainer stated as follows; a) This horse had come back after a setback and running after a long layoff (8 months) and he had told his rider not to break its stride and allow it to stride out freely as he did not want it to break down again; b) He had instructed his rider to sit 4th or 5th, till the 400 Metres and then ride out; c) His rider had pushed his mount to grab a good position and in doing so found himelf in front. Thereafter his charge went in and caused interference to horses on its inside and as such, the speedy horses dropped back, due to the interference; d) Thereafter, his rider kept it going and rode out in the straight to finish second; e) He had fancied it to run well and he was satisfied with the run of his charge in the above Race; The Jockey, while corroborating the statements of the Trainer also added that after he found himself in front, he did not want to break the stride of his mount and had maintained the pace and rode out in the straight to finish second. While noting their explanations, Jockey L Prashant was cautioned to be more judicious in following the riding instructions in future. Trainer Mr. S Santosh Rao was questioned as to the improved performance of his charge TOBIN(Irvan Singh), the winner of the above Race as compared to its previous run in Race No. 29 of the Mysore Winter Races 2019-20, i.e., The Dandeli Plate – (About) 1200 Metres, for horses rated 00 to 25, 5 years old and over, run on Fifth Day, Wednesday, 11th December, 2019, when ridden by Jockey K Sai Kiran, it ran unplaced. The Trainer stated as follows; a) After its run in Race No. 29, it was examined the next day and found to be lame on right fore and was treated for the same; b) After that, due to its soreness he was kept on light work and was applying medicine as advised; but still was not coming allright and again the Club's Veterinary Doctor treated it; c) Slowly, it started to come on, started to show spark in his work; d) In its previous run he was not happy that his charge had run so poorly but after treatment, it had shown a lot of improvement and came out and won the above Race. His explanations were noted. COUNTRY'S SHER (L Prashant) sustained bruise inside right hock. Routine sample was taken for analysis from the winner, b g TOBIN.