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Permission was granted to Trainer Ramanathan R to declare Jockey Surya Prakash, to ride RAYS OF SUN in place of Jockey Vivek.G who was indisposed and could not fulfill his riding engagement for the day.

An Objection was lodged by Jockey Hindu Singh, the rider of IMPERIAL GESTURE placed 2nd by the Judge against Apprentice Jockey Koshi Kumar, the rider of PROPOSED placed 1st by the Judge for "Before coming into 150 meters, the winner had come on to me and taken my ground, bumped me and I had to check and pull myself out and lost a certain race". The Stewards having viewed the replay of the race multiple times on the CCTV monitor and acting on their own observations were convinced that Apprentice Jockey Koshi Kumar, the rider of PROPOSED had shifted in under the use of whip on to IMPERIAL GESTURE (Hindu Singh) on the rails and tightened due to which Jockey Hindu Singh had to check his mount and momentarily stop riding and bring the horse around. The Stewards acting on their own observation decided to revise the order of placings as under:

IMPERIAL GESTURE (Hindu Singh) First
PROPOSED (Koshi Kumar) Second
ANZIO (C Umesh) Third
PERFECT BLEND (Sah Farid Ansari) Fourth

Jockey Hindu Singh, was asked to meet the Stewards after the last race.

Passing the 350 metres, IMPERIAL GESTURE (Hindu Singh) shifted in tightening DARK SON (Nakhat Singh) due to which the latter was tightened for room and lost balance thereby losing his position.

The Stewards after the last race viewed the race on the CCTV replay multiple times and having heard Jockey Hindu Singh and Jockey Nakhat Singh, deliberated the matter and acting on their own observations and with the conjunction with the Chief 3 Stipendiary Steward termed the incident as careless riding by Jockey Hindu Singh, and fined a sum of Rs 10,000/- and severely reprimanded and warned him to be more careful on his mounts in his future riding engagements. He was informed about his right to appeal.

Routine Sample was taken for analysis from the winner IMPERIAL GESTURE (Hindu Singh).