Excellent and Charles Bridge shone when the horses were exercised here on Sunday (Oct. 7) morning.
Sand track:
600m: Hexahedron (Prasad), Super Icon (Altaf) 40. Pair level. Clark Kent (Rathod) 40. Easy.
800m: Excellent Ella (Yash), Elegant Beauty (Rathod) 52, 600/39. Former ended two lengths in front. Improvisso (Walkar) 53, 600/41. Moved freely. Eyes For You (Sandesh), Scrathmyback (Ikram) 56, 600/42. They were easy. Eternal Memories (Mansoor), Drogo (Hamir) 51, 600/39. Former superior. Zanzibaar (rb) 53, 600/40. Moved freely. 2/y/os Despacito (P. Vinod), Letir Mor/Coccinella (P. Naidu) 54, 600/41. Former finished four lengths ahead. 2/y/os Golden Steal (Sandeep), Arazan/Yesteryear (P. Vinod) 53, 600/39. They finished level. 2/y/os Samidd/Celsius (rb), Phoenix Tower/Taralaya (Akshay)55, 600/41. Former better. Jetfire (rb) 57, 600/43. Easy.
1000m: Charles Bridge (Sandesh), Dibaba (Niranjan) 1-5, 800/51, 600/38. Former made up three lengths and finished level. Excellent (Sandeep), Dancing Hooves (Merchant) 1-6, 800/52, 600/38. Former started four lengths behind and easily finished level. Star Councillor (Bhawani) 1-5, 600/37. Pressed.
Mock race — Oct. 6 (race track)
1400m: Dance The Dream (Trevor), Rosseau (Bhawani), Hammersmith (Zervan), Royal Sceptre (J. Chinoy), Augustus Caesar (Neeraj) and Fly Away With Me (Prasad) 1-29, 600/37. Dance The Dream who was racing third won the race comfortably. Royal Sceptre who was leading the field till the bend shifted out alarmingly in the straight.