The Karthik Ganapathy-trained Juliette decimated her ten rivals in the Indian Oaks (Gr 1), the feature of Saturday's nine-race card at Mahalaxmi. The Musketier - Gimmesumsugar filly's spectacular performance over the mile-and-a-half trip will likely earn her the favourite's tag in the forthcoming Indian Derby (to be run on Sunday, Feb 2) should she choose to contest, as she most likely will.

It wasn't a clean jump from the gates for Juliette who lost some ground initially, but her rider Colm O'Donoghue quickly brushed her up to race fifth on the outside of Sea The Dream (Neeraj Rawal up) even as Notoriety (L Roche up) showed the way to Gift Of Grace (David Egan up) and Thailand (S John up).