Today, Mumbai’s high profile Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) holds its annual general meeting (AGM) at the picture-postcard Mahalaxmi race course. The results of the elections for the new RWITC committee will be announced late this evening.

There has been a difference between last year’s election run-up and this year’s run-up to the decider. Last year was a very bitter contest. Some audio tapes mysteriously surfaced at the last minute, in the pre run-up, with excerpts of conversations about ‘fixing’ people with doping allegations. The run-ups see slanging matches between rival teams and selective bits of information are leaked to the media, which is now also part of what is very frankly a circus.