King's Ransom, trained by Pesi Shroff, produced an incredible gallop in the homestretch of the Mahalaxmi racetrack to leave her rivals stunned in the Betway Indian 1000 Guineas (Gr 1), the feature event of Sunday's bumper ten-race card. The Multidimensional - China Creek three-year-old filly, bred at Ms Ameeta Mehra's Usha stud, is owned by Vijay Shirke and his family, in partnership with KN Dhunjibhoy, Keki D Mehta and Dara K Mehta. Jockey PS Chouhan rode King's Ransom to victory.

Four of the eight fillies in the 1000 Guineas line up were saddled by trainer Pesi Shroff, King's Ransom clearly being his main hope as she went to the post a piping-hot on-money favourite. The starter gave them a perfectly fair start, but one of the Shroff wards--Thunberg (C Umesh up)--who assumed command and clocked 14.10 seconds for the first 200m, suddenly stepped up pace, taking only 45.90 seconds for the next 800m. Negotiating the final turn, this sudden burst of speed put Thunberg six lengths ahead of Sierra Dela Plata (Neeraj Rawal up) who, in turn, was another half a dozen lengths ahead of the rest.