Running as an overwhelming public choice at the cramped odds of half-money, four-year-old filly King's Ransom, trained by Pesi Shroff, ran away from her six rivals to post an authoritative victory in the grade 1, Villoo C Poonawalla Indian Oaks, the feature event of Sunday's ten-race Mahalaxmi card. Carrying Vijay Shirke's silks, whose family owns the champion filly in partnership with KN Dhunjibhoy, Keki D Mehta and Dara K Mehta, King's Ransom (PS Chouhan up) finished three lengths ahead of Dangerous (YS Srinath up). The Multidimensional - China Creek filly was bred at Ms Ameeta Mehra's Usha stud farm.

Jockey PS Chouhan, the winning filly's regular saddle partner, settled King's Ransom in fourth position as stable-mates Thunberg (A Sandesh up) and Sierra Del Plata (Neeraj Rawal up) showed the way to Dangerous, setting a rather leisurely pace, clocking 81 seconds (1m:21s) at the halfway mark. After negotiating the final turn, both King's Ransom and Dangerous made their move at the same time, Chouhan opting for the gap on the inner rails even as YS Srinath astride Dangerous choosing to take the outer lane. For a brief moment near the final furlong, all the first four horses raced almost abreast, but King's Ransom and PS Chouhan surged ahead in a trice, and waltzed away for a very comfortable victory.