El Capitan and Magic In The Wind caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Monday (Dec.30) morning.
Inner sand.
600m: Laburnum (rb) 37.5. Moved freely.
800m: Pezula (Merchant), Grand Architect (rb) 54, 600/39. Pair urged and ended level. Regal Shot (S.Sunil) 54, 600/40. Pressed. 2/y/o Arazan/Equine Love (Kadam) 55, 600/41. Easy. Dance Smartly (Zeeshan) 54, 600/38.5. Moved freely. Jack Flash (Nazil) 53.5, 600/41. Moved freely. Polaris (Rupesh) 54, 600/40. Urged. Rogue One (Kaviraj) 52, 600/39. Moved freely. Romantic Eyes (Pereira) 53, 600/39. Moved freely. 2/y/os Wind Whistler (Nicky Mackay), Marvin (V.Jodha) 52, 600/39. Former superior. 2/y/os Sakara (Nicky Mackay), Touch Of Faith (V.Jodha) 54, 600/41. Pair level. 2/y/o Zenith (D.A.Naik), Lovely Fairy (Shubham) 54, 600/40. Former ended four lengths in front. 2/y/o Powerful Lady (Nicky Mackay), Kuyashi (V.Jodha) 55, 600/41. Pair easy. Gdansk (J.Chinoy) 53, 600/39. Moved freely.
1000m: Magic In The Wind (Parmar), Adonijah (rb) 1-7, 600/39. Former strode out well and finished well clear. Note former. 2/y/o Southern Frontier (Bhawani) 1-9, 600/40. Pressed. 2/y/o El Capitan (Bhawani), Divine Glory (Shubham) 1-6.5, 800/52, 600/39. Former easily finished two lengths ahead. Former pleased. Track Star (A.Gaikwad) 1-9, 600/41. Moved freely. Splash (David Egan) 1-6, 800/53, 600/40. Worked well. Golden Era (Baria) 1-9, 600/41. Moved freely. Big Magic (Merchant), Lady Lorrae (rb) 1-10, 800/54, 600/41. They were level.
1200m: Magistero (Bhawani) 1-24, 1000/1-9, 800/55, 600/41. Responded well. Glacier Express (David Egan), Be Frank (Hamir) 1-23.5, 1000/1-9.5, 800/55, 600/41. Former beat the latter by six lengths. Eagleinthesky (rb) 1-25, 600/43. Easy. 2/y/o Salvo (Akshay), Treason (Mahesh) 1-23.5, 600/42.5. Former was urged to end level. Free Gold (David Egan), Grand Eyes (Hamir) 1-22, 1000/1-7, 800/53, 600/40. Former finished three lengths ahead.
1400m: Ithaca (David Egan) 1-36.5, 600/41. Moved well.
Race track.
600m: 2/y/o Percivale (Bhawani), Genau (Khalander) 37. Former superior.
800m: Golden Eclipse (Pranil) 50, 600/36. Moved well. 2/y/o Irish Eyes (Nazil), Wizard Of Odds (rb) 50, 600/35. Former was one length better. Golden Hind (Akshay), Van Dyke (Kadam) 50, 600/36. They moved level freely. 2/y/os Moon River (Roche), Immortality (Zervan) and Benghazi (Parmar) 50.5, 600/36. Moon River finished well clear of others.
1000m: Texas Gold (Nazil) 1-3, 600/35. Good. 2/y/o Finalist (Dashrath), Mythical Power (Kuldeep) 1-5, 600/37 Former was three lengths superior. 2/y/os Corporate Jungle/Supernova (J.Chinoy), Kingda Ka/Beforememoryfades (Kaviraj) 1-6.5, 600/37.5. They were pushed and former finished three lengths ahead. Smoky Haze (Nirmal), About The Cloud (Malam) 1-9, 600/39. Pair moved freely.
1200m: Justified (David Egan), Truly Epic (Hamir) 1-16, 1000/1-2.5, 600/35. Former was two lengths superior. Master Of Studies (Nazil) 1-19, 1000/1-4, 600/37. Moved well.
Gate practice noted on the inner sand.
1000m: 2/y/o Marlboro Man (Nazil), Hexahedron (rb) 1-9, 600/40. Former better. 2/y/os Soaring High (Akshay), Luminous (Kadam) 1-11, 800/55, 600/41 They were easy. 2/y/os Marrakesh (Nicky Mackay), Menilly (V.Jodha) and Opening Verse (A.Gaikwad) 1-9, 600/41. Marrakesh and Menilly finished a distance ahead of last named. Direwolf (rb), Grand Sinatra (S.J.Sunil) 1-7, 600/40. Former finished five lengths ahead.