The two best fillies at the campus, Jamari and Meropi were expected to dominate the finish of the first classic, the Fillies Championship Stakes and the showdown at sundown warmed the hearts of the racing buffs, Jamari winning the fire to the wire duel, a `neck' separating her from Meropi. Waikiki hunting down the top two fancies finished less than a length behind and at the end it was `Paisa Vasool' from the railbirds point of view, the racing buffs enjoying the pulse-pounding action before providing a standing ovation to the two star performers on the classic day. 

On the strength of her impressive effort in her last essay, Jamari from champion trainer Pesi Shroff's yard garnered the maximum support. The connections of the Kolkata mainhope Meropi too were bullish after she produced an eye-popping effort in the morning trials. The track reporters reported it as the the best work of the season and most pros who watched her turn on the heat made no secret of their opinion that she will test the best. She proved them all right, only going down in the last couple of strides after boldly choosing to hit the front in an attempt to making every post a winning one in the mile long classic journey. Akshay Kumar astride the runner-up produced his best and Trevor Patel guiding the fortunes matched the skill sets of his arch rival. Trevor, Jamari and Pesi Shroff emerged the best and the punters loved it. The fact that three outstation horses, two from Mumbai and the runner-up from Kolkata finished on top came as no surprise considering the fact that the local fillies this summer lack the quality required to make the big splash.Pesi Shroff, it is needless to mention was immensely pleased with the effort of the `Queen' filly. The champion rates her high and she justified the confidence of her master standing tall at the classic podium. 

Before Meropi went down fighting, it was another good looking `chic' from Kolkata, who made the heads turn, coming up tops in the principal added attraction, the Stewards Cup  run over a distance of seven furlongs. Savvy Chic from the stables of Patrick Quinn produced an astounding gallop in the hands of Nazil to outclass her dozen rivals including the favourite Amreli. Patrick was confident that his filly in line for a hat-trick after her two straight wins at her parent-centre would come up trumps taking into account that she was maintaining her form and enjoying the climatic conditions at this centre. "She was working really well and her brilliant preparatory gallop suggested that she is the one they all have to beat," said Patrick delighted with the performance of the `chic' who did the `trick'. Advantageously placed in at the scales, Place Vendome finished second ahead of Emperor Roderic, while Last Wish beat Amreli to complete the frame.

Earlier, the stewards rightly conducted an enquiry after the Neil Darashah-trained Sea Eagle won the lower division of the Treasure Girl Plate. Zervan astride the winner failed to exercise control on his mount in the final 100 metres and shifted in dangerously resulting in Hasib Alam on High Tribute being unseated and suffering a bad fall. The two senior stipes thought it fit to disqualify the winner, while the stewards after ascertaining that High Tribute had not clipped the heels of the winner chose to maintain the first verdict. Most pros too were divided  on the result of the enquiry. Some made it clear that it was a clear case of disqualification, while the rest were of the view that the stewards did well not to take away the race from the winner. 

In this enquiry it was Zervan who was doing all the talking. In fact he was going on like a teacher explaining to his students. It surprised most that no stipe or steward told him to stop and only make his point rather than giving gyan to many knowledgeable senior men in the room.

The lower division of the event was also claimed by the Neil-Zervan combination, the lesser fancied Clifford pegging back the belated effort of Leather Back and Young Diana who flashed home late on the scene. Young Diana will improve most after her impressive debut and it will pay to support this Laxman Singh trainee, when saddled next. 

After Jamari made the Pesi camp proud, Wordsmith added one more to his master's tally making it half-dozen, winning the concluding event, the Parsiana Plate in emphatic fashion. Promising apprentice Kritish Bhagat produced a copybook race on the shock winner. The favourite Inyoubelieve failed to gain a favourable position early on in the race and though she did cover good ground in the straight it was just not possible for the Prasanna ward partnered by classic winning pro Trevor to add pep to the finish. Time from Patrick Quinn's yard gained the runner-up spot ahead of Rapidus, who just about managed to save money in place edging out the favourite Inyouwebelieve. 

Huntingdon, Jersey Legend and Impiana were the three other winners in the competitive eight-event card. Huntingdon in the hands of Saqlain won the Star Supreme Plate run over a mile. Impiana came good in the Mandya Stakes and Jersey Legend from Kishan Thomas' yard won the opener, the Meydan Plate run over a sprint.