Five-year-old Forest Flame led from the word go and posted an impressive victory in the Threptin Fillies' & Mares' Stakes (Gr 3), the feature event of Sunday's eight-race card. Jockey A Sandesh, astride the Suleiman Attaollahi-trained mare set his own pace to show the way to Kamilah (Neeraj Rawal up) and Juliette (CS jodha up).

Forest Flame quickened around the final bend to establish what looked like a comfortable winning lead, and though the piping-hot on-money favourite Juliette found her galloping shoes in the final 100m of the nine-furlong trip, Forest Flame rather easily spared her elegant neck to Juliette at the wire, without giving any anxious moments to her followers. Forest Flame was bred at the Poonawalla stud farm by Mrs Behroze Z Poonawala who owns the daughter of Leitir Mor (out of Memory Bay) with her own daughters Simone and Delna, besides the three gentlemen--Mukul Sonawala, DR Thacker & CK Urs.