The new racing season got off to a dream start on Sunday, with the very first race resulting in a three-horse photo finish that threw up a short head winner
The new racing season got off to a dream start on Sunday, with the very first race resulting in a three-horse photo finish that threw up a short head winner! No handicapper could have asked for a more perfect start to a new season. Credit goes to the club's young handicapping talent Niranjan Singh.
Singh has been impressive right from the day he donned that mantle, and the plethora of close finishes during the last Mumbai and Pune seasons bear testimony to his above-average skills. He is bound to go places if he sticks to what he has been doing, and keeps his own counsel.
Katrak is Mr Right
When Cooji Katrak strongly fancies a horse, the master trainer overflows with such energy that it shows unmistakably in his gait.
He takes small but quick, bouncy steps when following his potential winner into the paddock for the pre-race parade.
His eyes are riveted on his own horse, noticing every subtle change in the horse's mood, until he gives a leg-up to the jockey, and only when he is fully satisfiedu00a0 that everything is perfect, he throws a cursory glance at rivals to see how they are turned out.
"Yes, I am fancying my horse," he tells even a perfect stranger if asked, and if someone still has a question mark on the face, he adds, "Strongly," to silence the doubting Thomases.
On Sunday, his confidence was not misplaced even once as all his three fancied horses Star Of Roses, Sea Ruler and Flaming Arrow won their races very easily, delighting the followers of money.
Perfect start that!
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