Silver Beauty, trained by Malesh Narredu, won the mid-day Trophy powered by Satra Group yesterday, but not before Narredu, who believes in luck as much as he believes in his own training skills, did some smart thinking in the last 48 hours leading up to the event. Silver Beauty-s trainer Malesh, who had also won this trophy last year with Speed King, thus completed a back-to-back double, achieving a feat no trainer has managed to so far.

Jagran Prakashan Ltd director Shailesh Gupta extreme left, Silver Beauty owner S Shinde holding the trophy, rwitc’s media and marketing chief Vivek Jain, actors R Madhavan, Huma Qureshi, Aditya Roy Kapoor and RWITC’s Champaklal Zaveri at the prize distribution of the mid-day Trophy 2016 at Mahalaxmi Racecourse yesterday. Pics/Shadab khan