An excellent and competitive eight-race card is framed for Sunday at the Pune racetrack. The feature event, the grade 3, Eve Champion Trophy, has five runners in the fray, one of them--Escala--is pitched in by Bangalore schooler Neil Darashah.

Whosoever wants to win will have to beat the Malesh Narredu-trained Colombiana who has had a decent mock race on this track about a fortnight ago. Jack Frost, who also participated in that mock drill but chose to lie low, is in the fray now. Trevor Patel will ride him.