"Getting ready for night racing at the Race Course in Bombay!! Exciting! Saturday and Sunday, April 18 and 19..." It was RWITC's silver-maned committee member and gaming tycoon, Jaydev Mody, sharing his excitement on a social networking site about the club's latest whoopee: races that started at 5 pm, went on to around 9.30 pm and left punters and other merry makers enough time to have dinner (and perhaps a bit of dancing) under the stars.

"It's very popular in places like Hong Kong," said a racing insider, "In Mumbai, it can be a game changer for the club." So, naturally, Mody's enthusiasm was met with many hurrahs from his pip-pip friends. "Great idea! Fantastic effort! It's party time," went the response. Faced perhaps with more enthusiasm than he'd expected, Mody struck a more circumspect tone: