Good God! Finally God was kind on Blue God and the Arjun Manglorkar ward after finishing second in his last five consecutive starts went one better on what proved to be Good Friday for the consistent performer. Competing in the YS Surender Memorial Trophy run over a distance of seven furlongs, Blue God again garnered good support, his die-hard supporters again choosing to pin their hopes on the post shy customer, who lost out on a couple of occasions at the post. The Padmanabhan-trained Mystikos in line for a hat-trick after her two facile victories at Mysore, also was fancied strongly by the connections, but the filly found this company too hot to handle and finished a tame fourth. The in-form saddle artiste Antony Raj astride Blue God gained a favourable position early on, racing behind the two lesser fancied leaders, Mazal Tov and Iron King before Antony setalight  the public choice approaching the distance post and the Arjun ward streaked ahead and put the issue beyond doubt in the final furlong. Iron King piloted by Akshay Kumar did well to gain the runner-up berth, edging out Mazal Tov by the shortest of margins, while Mystikos found the going tough and failed to even save money in place. 

After a couple of flop shows in the Bangalore winter season and once in Mysore over a 2000 metres trip, beaten by Shubankar fair and square, it was surprising to see the Satish Narredu schooled Champions Way top the betting board in the Hyderabad Silver Vase, the plum event run over a mile. The fact that none in the small five-horse field, bar West Brook from Sulaiman Attaollahi's yard, who had won his last start at Pune had the form to stake a claim, it appears influenced the Champions Way followers to bet big. The top fancy in the hands of Suraj Narredu tracked the two leaders, Kalamitsi and West Brook for most part of the trip and when West Brook broke his blood vessel and retired at the top of the straight, the supporters of Champions Way started to count the money before the eight to one shot De Villiers, another from Sulaiman's yard, who had three from his stable in the plum, produced a stunning gallop past the distance post to beat Champions Way close home. Kalamitsi hung on to finish third. Mention must be made that Kalamitsi did produce a game effort and it will not be long before he earns a winning bracket this season. 

After a good run under his belt at Mysore, Eastern Gold from Parvati Byramji's yard, who was consistently blazing the trial track proved too good for her seven rivals, powering  home without working up a sweat in the lower division of the November Plate run over a sprint. Top saddle artiste Akshay Kumar pushed Eastern Gold to the front soon after the eight contestants came under the starter's flag and the Parvati ward bolted in by a widening margin of eight lengths in a smart time of 1:12.3 seconds, suggesting that she is a goodtype of a filly who will make her presence felt in higher category this season. 

The lower division of the event was claimed by the four to one shot Ladylion from Sriram Komandur's yard. The winner piloted by Kiran Rai upset the applecart of the overwhelming favourite Real Happiness from the stables of leading trainer Prasanna Kumar.in a thrilling finish, a `head' separating the two at the wire, Top saddle artiste Trevor Patel guiding the fortunes of the public choice after losing out lodged an objection.The protest did not merit attention and the stewards and stipes rightly and quickly discarded the objection. Riverdeep from Warren Singh's yard finished third behind the favourite, while the second in demand at the betting ring, Cascais never got going and finished down the field. 

After Recreator and Akasi from new trainer Shoban Babu's yard opted out of the Godavari Plate run over a distance of seven furlongs, four out of the remaining six runners were from Narayan Gowda's yard and two from the stables of Neil Devaney. The fact that every five minutes a different horse came into betting from Narayan Gowda's yard confused all the punters looking to place their bets where money was flowing. Sacred Creator finally looked the horse before money came pouring in on the topweighted Schafenberg from the stables of Neil piloted by lesserlight P Mani. Schafenberg was backed down from (6/1) to (5/2) and the manner this mare won, start to finish with none posing a threat, it was clear that the Narayan Gowda camp had also conveniently got into Schafenberg's boat and at the end it proved to be, all making hay while the sun was shining bright. 

On the strength of his close second behind the grey, The Grey Geranium in his last start at Mysore, Baltimore from the stables of Azhar Ali was fancied most in the concluding event, the Kunchikal Falls Plate run over the 1100 metres dash. But again Baltimore much to the disappointment of her large following again failed to earn her winning bracket failing to get past the eight to one shocker Classic Charm from the stables of Ganapathy. Rayan Ahmed did well to push the winner right from the word go to stay in contention upfront in this scurry and the moment he streaked ahead, Ryan in no mood to lose the initiative packed punch and the topweighted runner gallantly held on and convincingly pegged back Baltimore. Mega Success charged home late to finish third, while the speedy Chisox was not seriously in the race and so too Capri Girl.