CLASSERVILLE for The Speaker's Cup

Hi Folks,

On the strength of its impressive last run and subsequent good track work here, S. Padmanabhan-trained Classerville seems to have an edge over his nearest rival Aboline which is also performing well in the morning trials and is placed above him in the handicap ratings by 10 points. Remember Classerville has run with good youngsters and the last run wherein it just knuckled under at the post was simply superb. It was on start to finish mission and clocked 10.2 for the last 200m which by any standards at Mumbai is considered an excellent speed timing for the last 200 mts. Whereas to me Aboline though yet to taste defeat has not been tested with the cream of youngsters. Hence one cannot guage the talents of the horse unless proved amongst the best. Nevertheless a closs fight is on the cards. In the Supporting event for the day i.e. The Dharmaprasha L.S. Venkaji Rao Memorial Cup I strongly fancy Sothern Charge on past form and ratings. In fact it should enable jockey W. Smith to score another double of the week and enhance his talents as jockey which according to most amongst the racing public is not upto the mark. My rest of the speed ratings for the day are as follows:

Race No. 1:

Gurujosh
Good trackwork and fancied by connections
Coorg Honey
Spark Of Salerno

Race No. 2:

Leonardo 636
Flower Alley 630
Arabian Prince
One Track Mind 588

Race No. 3:

Hide And Seek
Six Shooter
Brigade's Pride

Race No. 4:

Davenport 587
Corbett 5678
Spark Of Jewel 561
Duke Of Windosr 544
Regal Glory 543

Race No. 5:

Chintz 619
Royal Bank 613
Rashida 593

Race No. 6:

CLASSERVILLE 685
Aboline 661
Sparks 657
Undue 648
Raptor Force 638

Race No. 7:

Southern Charge 670
Salsera 661
Mother's Pride 659
Milford 644
Soberano 636
Dare Don 628

race No. 8:

Social Climber 597
Bocconcino 594
Amber Star 578
Gara Fluid 552

Day's Best : CLASSERVILLE

Good Double : Classerville and Southern Charge

Kainchi w/pl : Chintz, Classerville and Southern Charge

Good luck to all,

Jimmy