The Pesi Shroff-trained Northern Lights, handled brilliantly by jockey P S Chouhan, inflicted a humiliating defeat on his two rivals in the JP Vajifdar Trophy, the feature event of a seven-race Thursday card at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai. 

The trainer-jockey combination of Shroff and Chouhan went on to complete a quick double immediately in the next race when Presidential, the day's shortest-priced favourite, overpowered Multistarrer (C S Jodha up) after a brief tussle in the closing stages to win the T M Goculdas Plate for class III horses.