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Get your Derby facts right
Updated On: 31 January, 2013 01:45 AM IST | | Prakash Gosavi
Planning to visit the Mahalaxmi racecourse this Sunday to watch the most exciting race of the year ufffd the grade 1, McDowell Signature Premium Indian Derby? Upgrade your general knowledge ufffd oops ufffd special knowledge, about horse racing and the Derby to sound like a pro.
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Did you know that Mahalaxmi racecourse, today viewed as ‘Mumbai’s lungs’, was once called a “featureless, dreary and dusty” piece of land? That’s true. In 1883, when racing was shifted from Byculla to Mahalaxmi, that’s precisely how a newspaper report described it.u00a0
Sanjay Khan and wife lead their horse Prince Khartoum. PIC/Gautam Kotwal
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