Shivalik Storm, ably ridden by A Sandesh, overpowered the favourite Your Royal Majesty close to the wire to win the grade 3, A C Ardeshir Trophy, the feature event of a seven-race card that was run at the Mahalaxmi Racetrack. The winner, trained by Cooji Katrak for owners G Shewakramani, Vikram Singh and Kishore M Dhingra, took home Rs 9 lakh.


Pesi Shroff

Shivalik Storm had never won beyond seven furlongs, and in fact, had miserably performed over the mile trip in all his three earlier attempts, whereas Zachary, when in form last season, was a specialist miler. However, that brilliant form of Zachary was clearly a thing of the past as he just failed to match strides with Shivalik Storm who stepped up speed at the two-furlong marker after stalking Your Royal Majesty (Trevor up) all the way.