Pune: Once he was the champion jockey at Pune, but of late Dashrath Singh was being written off as someone who had lost his touch, especially after the arrival of new and in-form saddle artists like Trevor Patel and Sandesh. The 30-year old former champion hit a purple patch on Sunday at Pune, winning as many as 5 races on the card, including the feature event S A Poonawalla Multi-Million (Gr 2) with Jefferson.

Jefferson, owned by Geofferey Nagpal with his wife Charonne and trained by S K Sunderji, received only a modicum of support to close at 9-1 from 10-1, even as raging hot favourite Continental, trained by Pesi Shroff and ridden by Suraj Narredu, remained steady at 10-9 on.