The Royal Western India Turf Membership (RWITC) chairman Zavaray Poonawalla has chalked up an bold card for Sunday (December 19) at Mahalaxmi, that includes the Indian Turf Invitation Cup (Gr 1) because the prime occasion, for which the chairman has himself put up cash as a sponsor, together with the Turf Authorities of India (TAI), underneath whose auspices, the Mumbai race membership performs host.
Curiously, that is the primary time within the historical past of Indian racing that a whole card consists of solely Group races. There will probably be 4 extra Gr 1 races moreover the Invitation Cup, specifically, the Spartan Poker Sprinters’ Cup, Dr MAM Ramaswamy Stayers’ Cup, Main PK Mehra Memorial Tremendous Mile Cup, and Villoo C Poonawalla Indian 1000 Guineas, the last-named reserved for three-year-old Indian fillies which is historically run as the primary of the 4 Classics of the Mumbai season.
There will probably be 19 outstation horses, coming in from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysore and Kolkata that will probably be competing with prime Mumbai horses on Sunday in numerous occasions, lending pan-India flavour, regardless of the disruption attributable to the Covid-19 pandemic, which pressured the invitational races, which have been initially scheduled for April this yr, to be postponed by eight months.
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