Three-year-old colt Emperor Roderic won the S A Poonawalla Million (Gr 3), the prime event of Sunday`s eight race card conducted at the Pune racetrack. Emperor Roderic was trained by Pesi Shroff and ridden by jockey PS Chouhan, sporting the red and white silks of Dr Cyrus S Poonawalla, who owns the winner in partnership with Adar and Natasha Poonawalla, Mukul Sonawala, DR Thacker and SR Sanas.

On jumping out of the starting gates at the mile marker, Emperor Roderic was excessively keen and started disputing the lead with Great Guns (R Ajinkya up) and Golden Neil (J Chionoy up). In an effort to settle him down, jockey PS Chouhan allowed him to grab the lead and set his own pace, even as favourite Dangerous (CS Jocha up) chose to settle near the wrong end, but not too far away from the leader. 

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