COLD WINTER SEASON 2001 - 02 :  KOLKATA RACE REVIEWS

Daniel, Cristopher walk away with season's honours
It was curtains to the 27-day Calcutta winter racing season that was beginning to look too long since early in the month of February. More...

Punters left in a lurch by Prakash
The Calcutta punters were left orphaned after the third race and the man responsible for bringing about miseries to them was none else but the champion jockey B. Prakash who reported sick.More...

Prakash reels off four winners
The afternoon at the RCTC race ground turned bright and sunny after days of darkness, thanks to jockey Prakash Bhonsle who helped trainer Daniel David saddle four winners, including three favourites. More...

Touch of Silver wins exciting finish
Calcutta Boomakers, on Saturday, picked up from where they had left off last Wednesday. It was again a day of severe blows that the local turfites were left to shield. However, they were lucky in a way that even the 2-10 hottest order of the afternoon, Touch of Silver, just about scraped home in the feature event of the afternoon, the 2,800-metre Calcutta St Leger. More...

Bookies were the chief beneficiary
Close verdicts in five of the six events framed in Wednesday’s card may indicate tough competition. But in reality it was their desperation that drove lesser owners and professionals to go all out before the season ends on April 4.   More...

Outsiders pop up their heads
Favourites, by and large, were disappointing in their performance leaving the floor open for the lesser fancied runners to dominate the six-event card.  More...

Smart Ruler justifies his odds, wins Million
The superior bloodlines may not be all about in the thoroughbred racing but this factor can not be overlooked. More...

Arterial walks away with Queen's Cup
It was Arterial who, once again, proved superior to Calorescence in the Blue Riband of the Indian turf, the 2,800-metre Queen Elizabeth II Cup on Saturday. More...

Jockeys punished leniently for serious crimes
Each of the six events in Wednesday’s race-card had its own story to tell and the two inquiries ordered by the stewards did indicate their concern about the deteriorating standard of racing at the centre. More...

Close verdicts kept turfites on their toes
Lesser jockeys worked to the advantage of horses who had managed to conceal form over the weeks and Saturday proved to be happy hunting ground for those in the know. More...

Outsiders take matter in their hands
With friendless winners dominating the afternoon, it was an afternoon punters would like to forget in a hurry. And to add to their woes the going remained on the soft side, thanks to the nagging drizzle that continued throughout Tuesday. (Race Day Report). More...

A big day when coups took the centrestage
The victory of a number of horses, who landed big coups in Wednesday's seven-event race-card, reduced the mid-season winter fare to a virtual joke. More...

Lesser fancied lot was at work again 
Although one may hate to call it in-and-out racing yet, the failure of prime favourites in Sunday’s race card does sound a note of caution. More...

Abraham squandered chance for a double
Trainer Daniel David's inspiring seven events wrap on the Derby Day last Sunday furthered his determination to take a serious plunge at the championship table. More...

Touch of Silver wins Derby, Daniel creates a new record

With the victory of Touch of Silver in the Kingfisher Calcutta Derby Stakes on Sunday, a history of a sort was created.  More...

New Year’s Day racing was more of a carnival

The 19,000-plus race crowd that packed the Royal Calcutta Turf Club stands on the New Year’s Day was offered everything that it looked for — a competitive race-card, exciting finishes, good food, prizes and free stuff too. More...

Bharath, Asfand and Karki share spoils

Alcalde looked to be a transformed horse as the Bharath Singh-trainee, on Wednesday, raced away with the 1,400-metre Army Cup for horses in the highest class. More...

Prakash wins Oaks on Touch of Silver and four more

Fully justifying her classic form, higher ratings, 6-10 short odds and attractive looks, the Serious Spender-Corviglia daughter, Touch of Silver, walked away with the Ladies’ Derby More...

Antequera had a narrow escape

The half-money favourite Antequera did win the Calcutta 2,000 Guineas, on Sunday, but the victory of the Green Forest-Silver Reflect three-year-old failed to set the Thames on fire. More...

Access All Areas triumphs on a favourite ruled day

It was a great day for the sports lover at the Calcutta races on Wednesday as favourites made a virtual clean sweep of the seven-events card. More...

Touch of Silver hard put to bag ‘Guineas’

The Calcuttas 1,000 Guineas day racing on Sunday was a sport with a difference. If it mattered that the south India turf Baron Dr. MAM Ramaswamy made regular foray to the paddock and also.... More...

The Archer reduces opposition to dust

The smashing victory of The Archer in Wednesday's feature event, the Darbhanga Cup, not only opened the possibility that the John Stephens-trainee is going to be a frontline contender for the colts classics... More...

Cristopher dominated proceedings from the start

Jockey B. Prakash came to Calcutta on Thursday with intensions of conquering the day’s poor fields but he ended up robbing the masses. More...

Favourites dominate all the way

With favourites making a cleansweep in the six-event card, the second meeting of the cold weather racing season turned out to be a burial ground for the layers of odds. More...

Opening day RCTC fare was far from disappointing

The opening day’s fare at the Calcutta races on Friday belied expectations as it was far from disappointing. Odds offered on favourites were encouraging and the competition on the whole was also tough.  More...