Superior Quest, a 10-to-one shot carrying Dr MAM Ramaswamy's silks, stunned his more fancied rivals by winning the Grade 3, Gool S Poonawalla Million, Sunday's feature event at Mahalaxmi.
Superior Quest, a 10-to-one shot carrying Dr MAM Ramaswamy's silks, stunned his more fancied rivals by winning the Grade 3, Gool S Poonawalla Million, Sunday's feature event at Mahalaxmi.
In an unprecedented feat the sponsor Poonawalla group swept the first four places by horses bred at their farm.
Interestingly, all the first four finishers were not only bred at their farm, but were also sired by the same stallion, Diffident, thus creating a unique record that's unlikely to be broken for a long time. The race turned out to be a thriller with four of the nine horses running almost abreast at the furlong marker. Momentarily, it looked like Serenity (B Prakash up) would win the day, but A Imran Khan astride Superior Quest extracted some extra energy from his mount to keep Serenity at bay. Keringdingan (YS Srinath up) and Viva La Diva (C Rajendra up) followed them in close order. Trainer Karthik attributed the win to a tongue strap.
"In the video of Superior Quest's last run we noticed that he put his tongue over the bit. So we put a tongue strap on him, and that did the trick," he told MiD DAY.
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