Horse racing: Sultan Suleiman bags Delhi Race Club Trophy

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Sultan Suleiman mocked his rivals in the Delhi Race Club Trophy, the feature event of the opening day's card of the Pune racing season on Sunday.

The Altaf Hussain-trained five-year-old gelding, ably ridden by jockey Nikhil Parmar, won handsomely, sparing about two lengths to a friendless Grand Accord (Bhavani Singh up), who pegged back the closely huddled troika of St Andrews, Mystic Bay & Rambunctious at the wire, to grab the runner up berth. Sultan Suleiman, the property of Dinsha & Munchi Shroff, Saleem Fazelbhoy and Mrs Aban N Chothia, clocked 1m 26.31 sec for the seven-furlong trip.

Jockey Parmar was unperturbed as Sultan Suleiman settled closer to the rear even as St Andrews set a fast pace for the Class I contest. When the race took a serious turn as they all entered in the short Pune homestretch, Sultan Suleiman found himself behind a wall of horses. However, Parmar deftly angled him out, asking to change gears, and the horse moved up menacingly passing the final furlong marker, to make sitting ducks out of those racing ahead, and sailed away for an authoritative victory.

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