Shyam Ruia continued his successful run on the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) managing committee by polling the highest number of votes yesterday evening. Ruia got 747 votes. The total number of votes polled were 1377.

Six of the seven sitting members — including chairman KN Dhunjibhoy, chairman of the stewards Geoffrey Nagpal, and marketing chief Ram Shroff— got re-elected; Jaydev Mody being the only one who was voted out. It may be noted that Mody had picked up cudgels on behalf of his jockey PS Chouhan who was adjudged guilty in the now infamous Lord Commander case, and the matter is sub-judice as of now.