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As Jockey S R Santosh Kumar, the declared rider of NAVAL GLORY, was certified medically unfit to ride after his ride in the Fifth Race, permission was granted to Trainer Mr. P C Tejaswi to substitute Jockey S Guruprasad to ride NAVAL GLORY in place of the declared rider.
 
Trainer Mr. J Sharavanan and Jockey J Paswan were questioned regarding the running and riding of GALAXY QUEEN, in the above Race. The Trainer stated that; (a) This horse does not have initial speed and always likes to comes from behind; (b) In all its previous runs, it had run off the pace and finished on and taking into consideration all its previous runs, he had instructed the rider to keep him off the pace and to ride it out in the Straight; (c) The rider had followed his instructions and his charge ran on in the straight to finish fourth; The Jockey while corroborating the explanations of the Trainer and added that; (a) In this race also, as his mount did not show any initial speed, he had to ride it out from the word go; (b) His mount only started improving position in the straight and ran on to finish fourth; Their explanations were noted for future reference.
 
NAVAL GLORY (S Guruprasad) sustained small injury over left hind coronet.
 
Routine Sample was taken for analysis from the winner, b g NAVAL GLORY.