C.V.G.K.Kishore trained God is Great (Flitch-Fire Flight) made light of the 20 points penalty it had accrued for its earlier win while repeating the performance in the Grey Gaston Cup which featured the day’s card at Mysore on Thursday. Coffee Time, an authoritative winner in its last outing was sent into the race as the firm favourite against its eleven rivals. Coffee Time was the quickest out from the gates and went ahead to lead the field. All was well with the favourite even as they showed up on the straight but started to gradually fall back. Jockey D.K.Ashish found a gap along the inner path and rode out God is Great through the passage to take over the running from the weakening Coffee Time. Blues and Royals also came up with a strong gallop on the extreme outside but the winner had gone clear to win by 1 ½ lengths. On examination after the race it was observed that Coffee Time had returned lame on its right fore.

 The Bugle Rock Plate, a seven furlongs race for horses rated 80 and above turned out to be one only for the records.  Following a steward’s enquiry immediately after the race, all the bets in the race was declared ‘Null and Void’ and all investments were refunded, while the actual result was held good. The race favourite Color Me dislodged the rider as it jumped out of the gates. On going through the replay of the start during the enquiry it was observed that the jockey of Color Me was not ready for a start and had his legs out of the stirrup iron as the horse was being troublesome inside the gates.  The rider was unbalanced as the gates opened and got unseated. The Stewards were of the opinion that the start was not ‘fair’ and thus decided to cancel all bets and not take away the race from the winner, citing Rule No.31 B of the B.T.C.Rules of Racing.

Bottom weighted Scholar (Placerville-Cambridge Ball) from Vishal Yadav’s stables was the ultimate winner of the race. Scholar produced a good turn of foot under jockey V.R.Jagadeesh to flash past Virat and win by a lengthening six lengths. Rising Rainbow finished third. Treasure Mountain was withdrawn on veterinary grounds.

Jockey Fransisco Fa Da Silva rode a back to back double, riding C.D.Monnappa trained Galaxy Queen and P.C.Tejaswi’s Prost in the first two races respectively. Galaxy Queen (Mull of Kintyre-Premier Galaxy) scored her maiden win in the Mercara Plate. Sent in to the race as an ‘on money’ favourite, Galaxy Queen was held back to run in about fourth position till entering the home stretch and moved effortlessly to gallop past the front running Jumo in the Red. Born Electric failed to collar Jump in the Red and finished third. Little Angel was withdrawn after dislodging the rider on the way to the gates.

Prost (Black Cash-Gentle and Bold), which had been improving with every run this season, came good in the Anekal Plate. Rich Rouge was on a start to finish bid but started to drift out on entering the straight. Although the rider did well to arrest the shift, Rich Rogue could only manage to finish second as Prost kept a straight course along the inner path and raced ahead by two lengths. World is Toomuch finished third while Infinithoughts on whom a lot of money came towards race time ended a tame fifth behind Southern Pearl.  

Breezo (Hymn-Colonel’s Dream), a 10-1 shot from S.Rakesh’s yard was hard ridden by jockey Dilip Singh to thwart the strong challenge of Born to Perform in the Kemmannugundi Plate. Breezo tracked the leader Argentum till the final bend and rushed forward to get to the front. Euphoria was the first to put pressure on the straight but failed. Born to Perform moved strongly and started to cover ground fast but the ‘hard’ riding of Dilip saw Breezo well past the winning post by half a length. Spark of Blue after a slow start was finishing on towards the closing stages to finish an impressive third.

Trainer Kishore was in the limelight again with a double. His ward Chestnut Charmer (Case Law-Simple Honey) which had shifted base from Hyderabad a year ago, earned its first corn bill here in the Mudigere Plate, the last race of the day. Chestnut Charmer jumped out smartly from the outermost draw and came in quickly to lead the field. Tus ker started to move up strongly inside the last 300 metres but Chestnut Charmer kicked on gamely and stayed well. Alizadeh finished on to take the third spot.