Well this is my first post on this blog. The first one was posted by a friend. Hopefully many more will follow this as well. I had been to races with a bunch of friends yesterday. So i thought i will start blogging about my experience at Race Course, Bangalore on 13th July 2008.
This year the Kingfisher Bangalore Derby, race for the best three year old horses, run over a distance of a mile and quarter was bigger and better than ever before. The race altogether carried a purse of 1.2 crore rupees with the winner bagging 72 lakhs plus a trophy worth a lakh.
Going into the race Mr.Vijay Mallya's filly Set Alight trained by the Mumbai pro Pesi Shroff was the on money favourite and it was to be piloted by Mallesh Narredu. While Set Alight was trained well and maintained in the pink of condition for this race by the trainer Pesi Shroff. Mallya's organising camp did their best to decorate the club completely in the Red and White the kingfisher colors before the start of the races, and decoration just got better with when the crowd started moving in the Red and white stand or as it is called the UB stand.
As the race began with 9 horses passing through the starting gates, Set Alight was the only filly travelling with a bunch of eight colts. Set Alight set the track on blaze and won the race comfortably by bettering course record time by a couple of seconds. The presentation was fully packed with Mallya camp both giving and receiving the honours. With the colourful atmosphere the presentation was as good as it could be but the icing on the cake was missed with absence of Mallya himself.
More than 80% of the race course wanted Set Alight to win because of its owner and his immense contribution to Horse racing in particular and sports in general. We started backing horses and lost enough money initially that one of them gave up and declared that he wouldn bet on any horse again, but ironically he was the first one standing in the queue for the next race as well. Thanks to Power Punch we not only recovered all our money but made enough money for the party tonight as well. Overall at the end of the day we had a good experience of betting and were satisfied for first timers. (Except Sheshu of course, who will for sure go back to get his lost money).
Well we were at the race course for a different reason and we weren't disappointed at all.While the Stands were decorated with Red and white colors, it was filled with a lot of colors sporting attires of various colors and designs. The quantity and quality of these colors was so good that we concentrated more on them than the horses. One thing that was common among all the colors was Goggles. One of the bunch of friends was so inspired by this factor that he went on to buy one pair of goggles in the evening itself. Along with this we have a huge list of what we aspire to posses, ranging upto a Bentley and a Derby contender some day.
All said and done, this year's Derby was a trend setter for a lot of events in years to come.
Sri!!
2 comments:
Well i know nothing much of the derby or the events that followed yesterday.. But the Blog is very descriptive, but unfortunately more about the actual race than the "COLOURS", i wud to know more about them rather than the fillies.
I congratulate u, in taking huge pain in omitting the word "FEMALE", not calling even horse so. Overall a nice blog, it does not require one to know the naunces of racing to enjoy it.
Good one boss ....you could have written more about colors i thought..
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