Results – Pune

After being stalled, DECCAN KING (Kishore Kadam) ducked the front gate and bolted riderless. As such, the gelding was withdrawn before coming under the Starter’s order. Tr. H. J. Antia has been asked to give the gelding more gate practice and show him to the satisfaction of the Starter at morning starting trials, before next accepting to race. Three objections were lodged in this race. The first two objections were lodged by Trainer Sangramsinh N. Joshi and Jockey Bhawani Singh, Trainer and Jockey of ISINIT (Placed Third) against RACHEL (App. K. Nazil, Placed Second). The reason being, RACHEL came in sharply after the start knocking ISINIT completely whereby the Jockey could not follow the instructions to be in 3rd/4th position, resulting in the horse travelling wide all the way which cost them certain 2nd place. The third objection was lodged by Jockey C. S. Jodha, the rider of STARRY IMAGE (Placed Fourth) against RACHEL (App. K. Nazil, Placed Second). The reason being, at the start RACHEL shifted in and bumped STARRY IMAGE and broke its stride whereby he could not follow his instructions which were to be in 2nd/3rd position and in the straight STARRY IMAGE was the fastest moving horse and if not for the bump at the start, he would have beaten the second placed horse, RACHEL. After considering the submissions made by App. K. Nazil who was accompanied by Trainer S. Waheed, as also Trainer Sangramsinh N. Joshi, Jockey Bhawani Singh and Jockey C. S. Jodha, in conjunction with that of the Stipendiary Stewards and relying on their judgment, the Stewards decided to over-rule the objections. Soon after the start OLIVIA KASPEN (Shrikant Kamble dr.3) shifted out thereby inconveniencing THERE SHE GOES (R.Ajinkay dr.5) ISINIT (Bhawani Singh) was observed to have drifted out in the straight and thereafter finished the race on to extreme outside on questioning jockey Bhawani Singh stated that his mount had hung out as the filly had behaved in a similar manner in her previous start. Trainer Sangramsinh N. Joshi has been asked to show his charge in a Mock Race to the satisfaction of the Stipendiary Stewards. After the race, STARRY IMAGE, RACHEL and DECCAN KING were trotted and found to be sound. OLIVIA KASPEN had a cut injury at the left fore fetlock and DECCAN KING had an abrasion at the left hip.