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Great Guns prevails in nail-biting finish

The first two races on the six-race card were both won by apprentice riders--Haridas Gore and Mustakin Alam, both five-kg claimers

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Deepak Rajpal is a veteran commentator. The popular race caller in western India has more than 30 years of experience under his belt, and rarely makes an error. He was, however, in for a surprise on Saturday when the judge announced the verdict of the Times Of India Trophy, the feature event, declaring Great Guns (R Ajinkya up) as winner from Aah Bella (A Sandesh up).

Rajpal had called out Aah Bella as winner trusting his naked eye judgement, but so close was the photo finish that the digital camera image made it clear that the winner had won by only a thousandth part of a second. You read that right! Great Guns stopped the clock at 1m:37.746s whereas Aah Bella clocked 1m:37.747s.

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