Mr & Mrs Mehernosh Deboo's three-year-old filly Myrtlewood, lying closer to the wrong end of the field until turning for home, moved up with gigantic strides and swept past the field to sail away for a comfortable victory in the first Classic of the season, the Eat India Company Indian 1000 Guineas (Gr 1) in yesterday's nine-race card.

Myrtlewood was trained by Pesi Shroff and ridden by P S Chouhan. She clocked a brilliant time of 1:35.13 for the mile trip.