Excellent Lass was the best three-year-old in training in February this year when she won the Gr 1, Poonawalla Breeders' Multi-Million (PBMM) on the Mahalaxmi racetrack. However, her performances later suggested she had regressed a bit in form, culminating in her worst performance in the last run at Hyderabad when she flopped as a half-money favourite in the Deccan Derby (Gr 1).

Interestingly, three other fillies--Psychic Star and Jade from Pesi Shroff's stables, and Emphatic from trainer Padmanabhan's yard--have scored, in the last 45 days, two sensational wins each to stake a serious claim for the first Classic of the current Mumbai season, the JSK1 Indian 1000 Guineas (Gr 1), slated as the feature event of Sunday's Mahalaxmi card.