Eight races are slated for the evening card on Thursday; and each of them is named after an elite club in Mumbai. The Malabar Hills Club is the prime event for class II horses, and St Andrews is expected to dominate it, but not without his followers getting a scare from Khayyam, if the latter attempts a start-to-finish bid putting some quality speed into the race. At the end of the seven-furlong trip, it could be a toss-of-the-coin decision between the two.

But more than the feature event, it is the Otters' Club Trophy for class IV horses which may generate more interest thanks to as many as 13 horses going over the trip of six furlongs, all of them aged between five and eight.