The Rusi Patel Trophy (Gr.3)

Terms race/ 4 years old and over 1600 m

LA Rondine should be given another chance

 A total of 7 runners have been accepted to run the The Rusi Patel Trophy (Gr.3) in which 1 raider will compete with 6 local challengers .The average field rating is 90.57 with Bateleur the highest rated and cosmic ray the lowest rated.The race wears an open look with cosmic ray not running the classic races , Lorraine finishing a Hattrick , Flying visit about to finish on a hattrick , La Rondine Being half sister to Late Miler Serjeant At Arms , Grand Accord being sucessfull in a mile trip .

1  LA Rondine 5 y b mTrainer Vishal Gaikwad

Kingda Ka (AUS) – Rahy ‘s Serenade (USA)     jockey Leigh Roche

This classic filly from yards of Vishal Gaikwad till date has ran 12 races and is winner of 4 races finished 2^nd thrice and third twice.Out of her 4 victories her 3 victories came in a mile trip .She emerged as a winner in The Spartan Indian 1000 Guineas (Gr.1) by 2 ¼ lengths with none of the contestants matching her strides .She emerged as a winner in The Pune City Gold Cup (Gr.3) by a verdict of nk ahead of Bronx there she carried 4.5 kgs extra than Bronx , she finished 2^nd on 2 occasions in a mile trip she finished 2^nd to Isnt she Lovely in The M H Amarnath memorial trophy in Bangalore she was beaten on post by Grand Accord in The A C Ardeshir Trophy (Gr.3) where she carried the top weight of 59 kgs .She is half sister to Serjeant At Arms and the stamina to stay the mile trip describes the rest.She is the highest rated filly and also carries the top weight in the field she has been working good in her morning trials and to be ridden by Leigh Roche even at top weight is the front line contender.

2  Grand   Accord  6 y b g             Trainer Karthik Ganapathy

Dream Ahead (USA) – Glebe Queen (IRE) Jockey Colm o Donghoue

This colt from yards of Karthik Ganapathy till date has ran 21 races and is winner of 6 races finished 2^nd twice and 3^rd 4 times.Out of his 6 wins he has towered all his opponents in a mile trip out of his 6 wins in a mile he had to put his heart and soul to win 3 races on Mahalaxami staright , he emerged as winner ahead of Khartoum by a verdict of lnk in Mumbai , he emerged as awinner ahead of La Magnifique by 2 ¾ lengths he then completed a double  in the mile trip in pune winning by combined margin of more than 4 lengths  lengths ahead of Brabourne and Bunting , he finished ahead of Brainstorm by a verdict of hd in Mumbai , recently he finished ahead of La Rondine by ½ lengths in The A C Ardeshir Trophy (Gr.3) .He has been working good in his morning trials and to be ridden by Colm O Donghoue will have advantage to win a mile trip having done so in earlier runs.

3  Auburn      6 y b m          Trainer  Vishal Gaikwad

Champs Elysees (GB) – Atwirl (GB)  Jockey  S Zervan

Another classic filly from yards of Vishal Gaikwad till date has ran 18 races and is winner of 6 races ,finished 2^nd once and 3^rd twice.Out of her 6 wins her 5 wins have come in a mile trip. She emerged as a winner ahead of Ice Dancer by 5 ¼ lengths in pune , she finished ahead of Gloriosus in Mumbai by 2 ½ lengths , she emerged as a winner in ootty ahead of Duke Of Pearl by 2 ¾ lengths , she was brought back to pune and won by 6 ¼ lengths ahead of Selfie Star , she finished 4^th to Cambridge in The Pune City Gold Cup (Gr.3) , she finished 3^rd to My Opinion in ootty , she finished 2^nd to Automatic by a verdict of lnk in Bangalore , she emerged as a winner in Pune by 1 lengths ahead of Bronx she has ran 6 races more than a mile and 3 races below mile she has consistently ran races of 1 mile she has been working good in her morning tracks and to be ridden by S Zervan will have to play a role as decided by connections as her trainer has La Rondine in race.

4  Flying Visit      5 y b g         Trainer Imtiaz A sait

China Visit (USA) –Ooh Aah Camara (IRE)     jockey A sandesh

nd thrice and 3^rd once.Out of his 6 wins 3 wins have come in a mile 1 in 6 furlongs and 2 in 7 furlongs .He emerged as a winner in his first outings by 7 ¼ lenghths ahead of Golden Horde in 6 furlongs , he then finished 2^nd to Golden Hind by 5 lengths, he emerged as a winner in class 3 ahead of snowdown , he finished 2^nd to spitfire by 2 ¼ lengths in class 3 he emerged as winner by 1 ¾ lenghths ahead of Lorraine in class 3 , he finished 6^th to Gazino in pune in 6 furlongs , he emerged as awinner ahead of Zenon by 2 ¼ lengths in class 2 , he finished 2^nd to AUGUSTUS Caesar and 3^rd to Pure Zinc in pune season. He is back to his winning form and has won 2 races on Mahalaxami track in the current season he finished ahead of Pure Zinc and Roberta by 2 lengths in The Ranjit V Bhat Memorial Gold Trophy , he emerged as a winner ahead of Bateleur by 2 ¾ lengths recently, he has been working good in his morning tracks and to be ridden by  A sandesh will look to complete an hatrick.

5  Bateleur     6 y b g      Trainer P Shroff

Western Aristrocrat (USA) – Al Khazneh        Jockey   Neeraj Rawal

This colt from P Shroffs yard till date has ran 13 races and is winner of 5 races finished 2^nd 3 times and finished 3^rd twice. He has ran a mile race thrice in his carreer and is winner of only 1 race in a mile.He has been more successful in 7 furlomgs winning it thrice .He ran after a gap of 10 months in present Mumbai season and finished 2^nd to Flying Visit , he was then taken to Chennai and finished 5^th to Cavallo Veloce .He has ran in company of Captain Courage , St Andrews , Clymene , Holy Smoke , New England He has class and stamina but he has been successful in 7 furlongs a mile trip in this company is a matter of conjecture he has been working good in his morning trials and to be ridden by Neeraj Rawal will have to fight in extra 200 meters to Travell.

6  Cosmic Ray     4 y ch f            Trainer   S S Attaollahi

Burden of Proof (IRE) – Corsian Gal    jockey   P trevor

This classic filly after finishing 2^nd to Gift Of Grace In The Style Cracker Indian 1000 Guineas (Gr.1) has not vanned to any center for classics nor she has ran in Indian Oaks (Gr.1) her connections have kept her away from classics she has the ability to tower the entire field as she is carrying only 52.5 kgs This filly started her carrer in banglore and emerged as a winner in her first outing and won by 1 length ahead of victorious sermon , she finished 4th to well connected in The Fillies championship stakes GR 1 by erdict of 51/2 lengths , she then again finished 5th to well connected in The kingfisher ultra derby banglore GR 1 , she then moved on to mysore and went on to win the Raghulal mysore 1000 G GR 3 by 33/4 lengths, she finished 5th to souther ruler in the mysore derby GR 1 .Her morning track shows she is in good condition and with experienced P Trevor to ride her she will be the one to Beat.

7   Lorraine  6 y dk b m    Trainer   Nosher Cama

Mull Of Kintyre (USA) – Fourpenny Lane (GB)   jockey  C s jodha

This filly till date has ran 15 races and is winner of 5 races finished 2^nd 4 times and third once.She has won Twice in 7 furlongs and mile and once in 10 furlongs .This filly was due for a win and her first win came in her 8^th outing in pune where she finished ahead of  Natalma by 2 ½ lengths she has carried her form since then and has finished first or only second since then she has completed her hattrick by winning 2 races in pune and 1 race in Mumbai recently .She is yet to run a terms race and this will be first time she will be running in toughest field also she has been working good in her morning tracks and to be ridden by new jockey C S Jodha will have a bold show.