Menorca and Queen’s Covenant impress

Menorca and Queen’s Covenant impressed when the horses were exercised here on Friday (Nov. 6) morning.

Inner sand:

600m: Theodosius (Avinash) 40. Easy. 2/y/os Sunsnow (app), Ripples (Gore) and Okinawa (N. Bhosale) 40. First name finished four lengths ahead. 2/y/os Havana Sunrise (N. Bhosale), Deauville/Victoria Falls (Mosin) 40. Pair level.

800m: Skandha (T.S. Jodha) 51, 600/38. Moved nicely. Viennoisse (Omkar) 57, 600/42. Easy. Imperial Dawn (rb) 54, 600/39. Pushed.

1000m: La Dolce Vita (Omkar) 1-9, 800/53, 600/39. Moved well. Menorca (N. Bhosale), Social Butterfly (Mosin) 1-3, 800/49, 600/38. Former was well in hand while the latter was pushed to finish level. Former pleased.

1200m: Golden Eye (Mosin) 1-27, 600/44. Easy.

Gate practice — inner sand:

1000m: Flip That Switch (rb) 1-5, 800/51, 600/39. Stretched. Money Spinner (Kirtish), Valle’e Dela Loire (Neeraj) 1-11, 800/56, 600/42. Former jumped out well and finished four lengths ahead. 2/y/os Tickled Pink (Siddharth), Cigalia (Yash) 1-13, 800/57, 600/43. They were easy. 2/y/os Profitable/Realism (Ajinkya), Moment To Remember (Vivek) 1-9, 800/54, 600/40. They moved level freely. Queen’s Covenant (app), Aegean Sea (Mansoor) 1-5, 800/50, 600/38. Former moved well and finished a distance ahead.

Mock race noted on Nov. 5.

Race track: 1200m: Rosario (Yash), Margaretta (Vivek G), Cosmology (Kaviraj), Puccini (Kirtish) and Rossetti (Ajinkya) 1-25, 600/35. Won by: 1-1/4, Dist and 1/2. Rosario won pillar to post, while Margaretta who was racing far behind third, covered the leeway impressively and finished good second.