Bangalore 23 January 10

my choice

1) (1-6)-7
2) 9-6-4
3)10
4)9-8-10
5) (3-7-5)
6) 9
7) 8-5-4
8)1-2-3
9)5-1-6

Jacquline - out of Indian Triple Crown

Long ago , I made a comment that Set Alight can be the first filly to win Indian Triple Crown in last 50 years, but she did not accept for Indian 2000G and lost the chance of a lifetime . People with hindsight would say that by losing Indian Derby she would have anyway lost the triple crown. But that's a different story.
Again, sometime back- before the running of 2000Guineas, I suggested that jacqueline could be aother filly, who could win the Triple Crown, but after going through the acceptance for Indian Oaks I must say that her chaces of winning Indian Derby are low and Indian Triple Crow is ,perhaps, out of reach.

Making money out of any venture, endeavour or business is a legitimate right of any individual or a group and this right can not be questioned. But sometimes, pride, sense of achievement and a will to excel forces some one ,like Fredrico Tessio to take his mare to England- hundreds of miles and several countries away to produce a colt called Nearco, who has changed the complexion of thoroughbred industry.

But our Indian stalwarts of thoroughbred industry routinely geld their promising colts and most of the time maintain the profit motive as the main theme of their racing activities.
But ,who are we to question them?
Neither a part, nor a partner nor an associate - what right people like us have to question them?
Nothing , Nil - absolutely no right...

mumbai - 21 January

my selections

1) (3-1)-10
2) 9-8-5
3) 7
4) 8
5)(1-8-2)
6)1-3-5
7)2
8)(1-4-11)

Mumbai & Hyderabad 17 January

Hyderabad
1)xxxxxxxxx(1-13)xxxxxxxx
2) 4-1-3
3)6
4)3
5)3-11-1
6)3-11-9
7) (4-10-7)
8)5-8-2
9)(3-8)-6


Mumbai
1) 4-5-2
2)3-2-1
3)(3-2-1)
4)8
5)(6-3)-2
6) (2-8)-1
7)6-2-4
8) 6-3-5
9)5-9-8