Grey filly Petronia, owned by the father-son duo of Khushroo and Zahir Dhunjibhoy, won the S A Poonawalla Trophy (Gr 3), the feature event of Sunday's eight-race card. The three-year-old filly, trained by Hosidar Daji and superbly ridden by K Nazil, displayed a great deal of determination in the final furlong when she first warded off a spirited challenge posed by the favourite Alicia (P S Chouhan up), and later frustrated an accelerating Regal Command (Bhawani Singh up) close to the wire. 

In a pre-race interview, trainer Daji had said he was certainly fancying the chances of Petronia, and, understandably, his beaming face bore the "I told you so!" look when leading in the winner.