Zavaray Poonawalla won the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) election held at the Nehru Centre in Worli on Wednesday, though the e-voting had closed earlier. Zavaray, who secured 836 votes, will now be club chairman. An elated Zavaray said he had returned to the fold (he was chairman four years ago) to save the club, and stressed on GST reforms as the way to pull the club out of what he called a, "precarious financial state". "We will also have to work to bring the bookmakers (currently there are three in Mumbai) back to the turf," he added.

Vivek Jain, who polled the highest number of votes for quite a few years, finished last among the 11 contestants, competing for the nine-member committee. Jain, who was contesting as Independent, garnered 511 votes.