Updated On: 18 March, 2024 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | Prakash Gosavi
The J Rustomji Sopariwala Trophy for maiden 3y old horses was won by Fast Approach who made every post of the five furlong sprint a winning one

Mahalaxmi racecourse in Mumbai. Pic/Shadab Khan
Two rank outsiders, colt Break Point and filly Pyrite, stunned their respective rivals to bag the two championship events--the Shapoorji Pallonji Breeders' Colts Championship & the Forbes Breeders' Fillies Championship (both grade 3), which were slated as the prime events of Sunday's seven-race Mahalaxmi card.
Both winners scored at the astronomical odds of 25-to-1, but the victory of Break Point was more sensational. The SK Sunderji-trained three-year-old colt, bred at the Kehar Singh S & A Farm (Dreamfield - Sweet Caroline), suddenly veered out to the middle of the track approaching the 1200m marker, but jockey R Ajinkya did well to bring him back to the inner rails, and thereafter, saved every inch of ground he could, by sticking to that path all the way. When the piping-hot favourite The Panther (P Trevor up) could not quicken at a crucial stage, and Divine Hope (S Saqlain up) looked like stealing the race, Ajinkya deftly and stealthily picked up gaps between horses, and ably passed the leader from inside to corner the glory.