The Vishal Gaikwad-trained Kariega (Kingda Ka - Smoke Ring) outclassed her five rivals to win the Forbes Breeders' Juvenile Fillies Championship (Gr 3) at the Mahalaxmi racecourse yesterday. Biding her time off the pace, Kariega was asked for effort by jockey Trevor Patel after the heads turned for home, and the three-year-old filly owned by the family of RWITC chairman K N Dhunjibhoy shot ahead like an arrow on the inside rails to surge clear of rivals, putting an impressive four lengths between herself and Mishka's Pride (A Sandesh up) who took up the runner up berth.

"Her last run was disappointing," Kariega's trainer Vishal Gaikwad told mid-day in a post-race chat, "but she was shaping up well during the track trials since then, and the change of equipment (adding tongue strap) must have helped her."