C.D.Monnappa trained Time To Time (Juniper-Loving Girl) lifted the M.Govindappa Memorial Cup, that featured the small card of six races on Wednesday at Mysore. Taking off from an outward draw, Time To Timemoved swiftly to be a close second behind Cesaria. Precept and Emerald joined the two in front as they rounded the final bend. Into the straight, jockey R.Vaibhav started to work, on Time To Time and the 5 year old took charge readily and kicked on gamely to register an easy win. Emerald was in futile chase towards the last 150 metres, to be the runner-up. Behram made late progress to get the better of Precept for the third place.

S.Rakesh trained BreezoHymn-Colonel’s Dream), who had not placed on board in its last two runs, pulled off an upset win the Continual Trophy, the only other trophy race of the day. On entering the home stretch, the gap along the inner rails opened up and jockey Md.Sameer guided Breezo to take the wide opening. Sanatana had gone ahead with 250 metres from the finish and Breezo joined along the inside and after a keen tussle, surged to hit the front in the last 50 metres and finished three parts of a length ahead of Sanatana.

Trainer J.Saravanan was the most successful professional on the day, clearing half the card. Blus And Royals, Passage Of Time in the first two races of the day and a well backed Amazer in the concluding event were the three victors from the stable.

Son Of The Sun slipped in to take the running within the first 100 metres of the Kovalam Plate, the opening race of the day. Behram was in close attendance on the straight and Son Of The Sun extended the margin to about three lengths near the 100 metres. Just when it looked like Son Of The Sun would make it to the finish easily, came Blus And Royals with a big run, catching up with the leader at a rapid pace and the two hit the winning post together. The photo finish went in favour of Blues And Royals, who had managed to get its nose in front on the last stride. Flip Your Destiny was a long way back third.

The 7 year old Passage Of Time (Brave Act-Strokes Of Fire) who had not seen the winning post in its 40 runs, finally made it to the top in the Splash Plate. Passage Of Time was in about sixth position as the traversed the final bend and finding a wide gap along the rails went for it. Asterix who was improving from the rear all the way, came to the front midway up the straight but could not match the strides of the winner and had to settle for the second place. Jockey Afsar Khan on Peppr looked to be more interested in policing Prost on the home stretch and settled for the third place.

The right money came on the bottom weighted Amazer (Beckett-Jade Image) in the Halebeedu Plate and apprentice piloted the 7 yesr old successfully. A winner in the lower class, Amazer made light of the 11 points penalty en-route to an encore. Ohiyesa was the first to go to the front on the straight. Amazer had improved steadily to be with the front bunch near the bend and weaved its way through horses to challenge Ohiyesa and took over the running with 100 metres from the finish. Caterina made a late bit, travelling fast from the rear but fell short by a long neck at the finish. Ohiyesa was third another length behind. Alizadeh was withdrawn after being troublesome near the gates and bolted.

G.T.Surender trained Indian Royalty (Royal Kingdom-Our Royal Highness) who had finished second to Visual Element in its previous outing, made amends to win the Kutta Plate. Fire Vault was withdrawn before the horses could arrive for the parade and  Gunpowder had to be withdrawn near the gates. Indian Royalty was fancied strongly to prevail over the other eight in the race and was the only ‘odds on’ favourite in the day. It was a fierce battle between All For Cash, ridden by Valdir De Sousa and Indian Royalty throughout the last 300 metres. Jockey G.Y.Rajesh Babu was pushing Indian Royalty hard and when he gave a couple of backhanders, the gelding picked up speed to be better by a neck at the finish.