MESSALINA for The Poonawalla Mysore Derby 2009(Grade I)

Hi Folks,

Firstly let me wish you all a very Happy Deepawali and Happy New Year and may the festival of lights light up your life with good winners for the coming year.

Now for the concluding day of racing at Mysore in The Poonawala Mysore Derby 2009(Grade I), S.Padmanabhan trained Messalina though lacks in experience and sparingly raced in her career, looks too good to lift the derby being the stellar event of the Season scheduled to-day at Mysore. Messalina won the Hyderabad Fillies Trial effortlessly by pulverizing the opposition and showed tremendous turn of foot. Believe me this horse was first targeted for Hyderabad Derby as per my talks with one of the leading breeder and co-owner at Pune in early October failing which Pune was next in schedule but due to some reasons targeted here. Messalina will no doubt face stiff competition from Sprint Star the main danger here who won the Colts Trial at Mysore coming from back and produced an electrifying run sweeping past Mystic Quest and Classerville whereby exhibiting his abilities to stay. All said and done, Messalina should prevail in the end and I would strongly recommend one and all to play an each way good bet. In the supporting event for the day i.e. The Daissy Appo Cup is a straight fight between father and son trained Ohyesa and Youre So Beautiful. Neil Darashah trained Youre So Beautiful is in tremendous condition but lacks experience and class and Ohyesa on account of good speed rating and being way ahead in handicap rating of the rest, would strongly fancy his chances and in fact would not hesitate to select as the day's best betting proposition unless the father allows the son to win the event on a big day to get well acquainted with the racing patrons. My rest of the speed ratings for the day for the concluding events at Mysore are as follows:

Race No. 1:

Free Glider 586
Witch Doctor 582
Fantabulous Hero 578
Aspiring Seven 577
Arkwright 575
Midsummer Star 571
Estrella 571
She's Big 561

Race No. 2:

Zios 629
Amelia Cordell 625
Zansara 623
Heroism 613
Damgood 608
Demanding 606
Loremo 601

High Gleam 662
Definite Believe 659
Simply Dangerous 655
One Track Mind 620
Sher Dil 610

Race No. 4:

OHYESA 649
Youre So Beautiful 605
Oban 597
Glitterato 588
Angelfire 584

Race No. 5:

Arabian Memories 628
Recollection 620
Champions League 620
Fanaa 614
Easy Rider 601

Race No. 6:

Aristos 657
Star Fight 650
Madam Rich 647
Our Little Savage 646
Dare Don 632
The Gain 632

Race No. 7:

Messalina 645
Sprint Star 629
Mystic Quest 622
Sans Pareil 610
Red Renegade 605

Race No. 8:

My Friend Paul 624
Mill Fontaine 619
War Head 614
Van De Star 609
Mr. Majestic 600

Race No. 9:

Southern Magic 593
Mister Trooper 590
Mexican Wave 588
Ride And Shine 586
Forever Grande 582

Race No. 10;

Black Splendour 607
Regal Image 606
Mr. Genius 555
Worth A Million 551

Day's Best : OHYESA

Deepawali Bonanza : Ohyesa and Messalina

Good luck to all,

Thanking you,

Jimmy