Dear Satish,
I am sorry if this letter hurts you, but I must say what I must, mustn’t I? (Three ‘must’s in once sentence? What has happened to me?)
And what the heck! It’s meant to hurt you—plain and simple.
It’s all because of you (and that Sprint Star of yours).
What business did you have to enter that horse for a mile race in the first place? And if you had plans to enter him in the Classics, why was he named “Sprint” star?
Your brother has always been accused of fooling the public. No wonder he was your collaborator in this coup. Shame on you and shame on your brother.
The less said about your brother, the better. He had no business to win two plum Classics back-to-back in a matter of eight days. Who does he think he is? Calvin Borel?
Didn’t you realize we all great tipsters had tipped Aboline as a near-certainty for the race? Don’t you know it is our job to decide which is the best horse in a race? It’s just that we don’t always agree, or there is actually no reason to run a race in the first place. If our first three choices could be identical, the race clubs have agreed to directly give away the prizes in the paddock instead of making the horses run on the racetrack. Don’t you believe this? SMS me your fax number, and I will send you a copy of the letter written by the Turf Authority to our racing journalists’ association.
You have rubbed us the wrong way, and you will pay the price, Satish.
We have already ridiculed your winner, called you a liar and a red-boarder, and that’s only for starters. (In case you don’t know what is meant by redboarder, it’s a term used for people who claim ‘after the race’ that they had predicted the winner ‘before the race’).
We did not spare even the Indian Derby winner (Antonios) for beating our darling Set Alight. As you know, there was a story in every angle connected with Antonios’ victory—from owners who won two back to back Derbies with unfancied horses, to a septuagenarian trainer who won his first Derby in 1973 (that’s 36 years ago!) reviving his luck in an incredible way, to a Brazilian rider who converted a chance ride into Derby glory—but we just blanked them all out.
We had talked about Set Alight ad infinitum before the race, so we made sure everybody kept on talking about Set Alight ad infinitum after the race. That’s our power for you.
Antonios’ owner—Farouq Rattonsey—at least had the decency to admit he did not have the guts to say so although he personally fancied the horse’s chances. A lesser sin compared to yours, Satish.
You are really rubbing it in when you say that you were ‘very confident’ of winning the race. Some others are pointing out that for anyone with racing knowledge, Sprint Star’s mock race was a clear indication that the horse could upset. Why, in fact one of us writers—a blogger by the name Tiger—actually mentioned BEFORE the race that only Sprint Star was the horse to spoil Aboline’s party, a sin for which we fellow writers will never forgive him.
In fact, we have already called for an emergency meeting of all race writers to urge disciplinary action against this man. That should tell you we don’t even spare our own men who commit this unspeakable crime, so who do you think you are Mr Satish Narredu?
On behalf of the racing journalists’ association of India, I warn you to make the following corrections to your functioning style immediately, failing which, I am afraid the responsibility for the consequences will lie solely with you.
i) Not to give misleading names to horses owned or trained by you.
ii) If the first demand is not met, then at least not to enter a horse named ‘Sprint Star’ in a race beyond 1,400m and a horse named ‘Waiting For Cows To Come Home’ in a race under 1,200m.
iii) Not to enter horses in Classics.
iv) And if you enter, then not to win.
v) And if you enter and win, then not to give post race interviews.
vi) And if you enter and win and give post race interviews, then not to make a statement that you strongly fancied the horse.
vii) And if you enter and win and give post race interviews and say that you always fancied the horse, then you must produce the winning tote tickets or a Xerox copy of a bookmaker’s sheet to support your claim, failing which we reserve our right (and might) to go after you as we please.
(Self-appointed) President of the (non-existent) Racing Journalists’ Association of India
Just toooooooo good. Loved it.
ReplyDeleteSo what was this post all about.a satire on the Narredu family ??
ReplyDeleteif so do you have the concurrence of all the racing fraternity including your DEAR friend sharan kumar who is not pleased with the results.
and finally PG , why the comment moderation.It is time you did away with it.
regards,
Dear Mr Vaidyanathan,
ReplyDeleteIf you thought this was satire on the Narredu family, either I am a very bad writer, or you have missed the whole point.
Maybe you need to read it again.
Regards,
Prakash
Dear sir,
ReplyDeletein general opinion of the racing patrons, it is possible that the connections of ABOLINE had the last laugh . so pl forget it .
your words r too harsh
kumar,
ReplyDeletemr gosavi's words are harsh, but have you understood against whom? if you think he is harsh against mallesh & satish narredu then like gosavi says you too have missed the point.
Absolutely hilarious. ROFL.
ReplyDeleteI think if there is satire, then it definitely comes out. May be like the FINOO, you need to fine tune it.
ReplyDelete" Kahi Pe Nigahen Kahi Pe Nisana"
ReplyDeleteHaste Raho Hasate Raho.
Maja Aa Gaya.
Thanks & Regards sir
Surendra Prasad Sao
Excellent piece. A lesson in tongue in cheek writing. But has Sharan Kumar read this?
ReplyDeletePrakash, read Shyam's piece about sour losers. He has also hit hard at Sharan Kumar for the rp review.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely hilarious and sarcastic comedy of errors.
ReplyDeleteDear Vaidyanathan,
ReplyDeleteSorry to have missed answering your last point. The moderation is only in effect to avoid publishing abusive language or motivated personal attacks. Because I believe a fair number of racing ladies too visit this blog.
Dear Nitin P,
It is not only my dear friend Sharan Kumar who prompted this article, there are many others. In fact every tipster (including myself) is guilty, at some point or other in his career, of doing what Sharan and some others have done this time. So I think it is wrong to single out Sharan Kumar alone.
About your mention of Shyam's article, I had read it already and felt, unlike me, he was actually upset and angry with Sharan.
I think Sharan has a right to his opinion, only in this case, I found it a little amusing, especially his coming to conclusion that Satish Narredu himself knew he was lying when he said he fancied Spring Star.
To all others,
Thanks.
Mr Gosavi, Narredu was lying when he said that his horse would win. He said that Sprint Star had run four lengths behind Aboline in 60 per cent fitness. He forgot that subsequently the horse in total fitness with Aboline. At that time, as Times of India reviewer has written, Sprint Star could well see the tail of Aboline. Is Satish not misleading by giving wrong information. For your information, he had just scratched the entry for the Derby a few days back. Now he gives a final entry of Rs 10 lakhs and the horse finishes nowhere, he would have just got what his originally target of million in a sprint race. It is the immodesty of Narredu that comes into play. But anyone, you seem to have sold yourself to Narredu family going by the way you defended Malesh. He had your own theory of quarters but Pesi too said that he thought Malesh lost the race, he had no guts to take him on. I am really sad for you.
ReplyDeleteExcellent Mr. Prakash. I enjoyed it
ReplyDeleteSanthosh
Dear Prakash ,
ReplyDeleteI may have been BLUNT , but it was not a tirade against Sharan.
I gave vent to my feelings as i felt some ethics and consistency had to be followed particularly from Journalists.All the more from persons who claim to have credibility.
It is not fair to attack WINNERS.In the case of Set Alight Pesi and Mallesh were losers and everyone had a right to an opinion but Sprint Star was a Winner.
regards,
shyam
Anonymos first get your facts right. When SS lost to aboline second time in r no 249 ss met with sever interfrance b4 red mark & lost all chances. see the video.
ReplyDeleteI liked your tongue-in-cheek article ,but first one should question both the joks of the 1st and 2nd favs as to what were their instructions were they told to ride asthough they were in the wild west or was it to see they neither wins . the trainers maybe able to throw some light on their joks brilliant riding . maybe all were misled by the name of one of the runners and thought that this classic was also only of 5 furs . smith needs to go back to riding school and the trainer needs to get over his fair skinned fetish as for the other rider he should keep riding in calcuuta where he shines out
ReplyDeleteSprint Star shocks frontliners in Colts Trial Stakes
ReplyDeleteIkram Khan | TNN
The railbirds were shocked, the pundits stunned and the professionals surprised. But the one man who revealed that he was confident and that the victory of his ward Sprint Star in the Colts Trial Stakes was no shock nor did it come as a pleasant surprise and in fact he was sure that Sprint Star would pull it off after his impressive mock race was trainer Satish Narredu.
His brother Mallesh who piloted the champion colt, it is learnt did not fancy his chances nor did the horse himself, who in his last head-tohead clash with Aboline in Winter was so far behind that he could not see the tail of Aboline. On Sunday though his tail was up the moment he went past Aboline, Sprint Star knew that he had fluked it and the fact that he did it in a classic made Ontario’s son happy.
Satish Narredu pointed out that Sprint Star had finished second behind Aboline in a sprint event when he made his debut and going into the event he was only 60 percent fit. Well what Satish forgot was in the next clash with Aboline Sprint Star despite being spot on was an also ran. The gelding let’s admit has improved most after being gelded and in a race where the frontliners were just not getting into the stride, Sprint Star put one big stride ahead to corner glory.
It was a shock result and Sprint Star who was listed to compete in a rich sprint event later was given a chance in the second classic more out of courage than confidence and while one can laud the courage of Satish, his I was confident line after the event failed to impress even the first timers on the course. The fact that Sprint Star was offered at (80/1) against the (80/100) quoted on Aboline put him straight in the list of nohopers but in sports the underdogs on their day upset the applecart of the favourite. They do it surprisingly and never confidently and it is the element of surprise which provides all the fun and glory in this game.
Well all said and done kudos to Satish Narredu for beating the best through Sprint Star. The trainer, it must be mentioned left no stone unturned in his endeavour to send out Sprint Star at his best and the star performer made most of the opportunity to wear the Champion colt sash. Sprint Star after his classic success may well take a shot at the blue riband of the season, the Kingfisher Derby scheduled to be held on Sunday, July 13 and if that happens it will not be Mallesh who will partner him, the double classic winning saddle artiste is retained to guide the fortunes of Jacqueline in the mega event.
In the Stewards Cup run over a sprint Suraj Narredu rode a near-perfect race on Aquitaine while the apprentice N S Parmar made hash of a race which he could have easily won on Spirituall. The Mumbai-based apprentice missed a couple of lengths at the start and was founding wanting at the finish. It simply was a below par effort and taking into account that the price offered on Spirituall kept going up and up-from even money to twos-it was clear that the smart bookies were a step ahead, jumping out of their seats to accept bets on Spirituall before the horse took a fly jump.
Dear Prakash,
ReplyDeleteI read your so called satire. Surely this is not your strength like your tipping. You have tried every method and proved what a disaster you can make of your techniques even if others may benefit from it! I have no objection if you want to defend Satish Narredu. May be I was harsh on him when I highlighted the trainer’s blatant attempt at misleading instead of glorifying him for his stupendous fluke effort.
Satish Narredu tried to project a larger than life image of himself. He was blurting a lie when he said that since Sprint Star had run four lengths behind Aboline in 60 per cent fitness, he was confident that he would bridge that gap. He forgot that Sprint Star won a race subsequently and met Aboline again in the winter million where he finished more than 10 lengths behind. Did the horse go backward to less than 60 per cent fitness?
Humility costs nothing. If only he had said that he fancied his horse and it won, no body would have taken affront. The manner in which he gave wrong facts after the race needs to be highlighted and not glossed over. The owners of the horse were cooling their heels at Hyderabad. If Satish Narredu had thought that his horse may finish on frame, the sporting owners would surely have been in Bangalore to cherish the historic moment of winning a classic in Bangalore.
You are not the Prakash Gosavi I know of. The Prakash I knew was somebody whose articles had substance and had something new to offer. The new avatar of a defense counsel does not suit your personality.
You defended Malesh Narredu’s riding on Set Alight and said that the great horse brought misery on the jockey and not vice versa. To argue your point, you invented theories. When people told you that Pesi himself said that Narredu’s riding contributed to the defeat of Set Alight, you said you were not sure whether the trainer had made any comments in this regard. And you did not check with Malesh whether he apologized to Pesi for his bad riding.
You can try to give shine to all substances but the glow is different when the substance is deserving of it.
With regards,
Sharan Kumar
Mr sharan kumar , the mr KNOW all of racing.hanks for leaving your footprints in this blog.Sprint star was interfered in the winter million won by aboline.surely you being in bangalore would have noticed it unless the blinkers were on.
ReplyDeleterest assured people know you for your uncompromising stand on padmanahan trained and jamshed and poonawala owned horses.
hope you recover soon.
hey sharan ,
ReplyDeleteAll of you are making the mistake of not factoring in to your study the horses' potential to improve. This is all the more important when the horses you are dealing with are in the first year of their racing career. A majority of horses improve till they complete four years, and some of them keep improving till they retire. So, if you say that Aboline, D'Artgnan are the best horses in the bunch on the basis of their record, you are right, but to say that the winner will be between them is foolhardy.
You should always give room for improvement and this is precisely why track movements are crucial in the process of spotting winners in a three-year-old bunch. On the basis of his brilliant mock race, Sprint Star did indicate that he has come into the picture strongly enough to be considered. If you did not pay any attention to such detail it is really your mistake.
The best way to deal with youngsters is not to back the horses which have done well, but those who have done extremely well. But in case of a bunch where you do not have an extra-ordinary horse, the right way is to pick a horse which has done moderately well without actually stretching himself or herself too much. This should be followed at least until the horses turn five by which time they would have reached their optimum potential.
Also not to forget the interference received by sprint star in the race won by aboline in winter.
amen ,
peace be with both pg and sk
Hello Sharan,
ReplyDeleteLooks like I have touched a raw nerve somewhere, or you wouldn’t get personal like this—talking about my writing or tipping abilities, and whether they are successful or disastrous. In the interest of our friendship (which is more precious to me), I sincerely request you to please refrain from such personal remarks in future posts.
Let’s not confuse the issues, Sharan. I am not defending Satish Narredu. I am defending his right to be able to say (in post race interview) what he felt about the horse before the race. You could have said you didn’t believe him (like Ikram Khan did in his TOI piece posted by ‘Anonymous’), but you can’t say he (Satish) ‘knew he was NOT telling the truth’. That’s accusing someone of being a liar on purpose, and you better be right when you do it in public domain.
I don’t see why, in a moment of his glory, a winning professional’s act of ‘trying to project a larger than life image of himself’ should offend a journalist. If a ‘4-length defeat’ gave him hopes that he could one day beat Aboline, I don’t see why it should be termed as a lie just because the horse lost disastrously to Aboline yet again by 10 lengths.
Ask trainer Padmanabhan how Congratulations won the Indian Oaks by getting beaten by the Oaks favourite twice or thrice earlier in her career. Worse, she put in her most discouraging performance just one race before, in the 1000 Guineas, to be ruled out of the Oaks contention by all pundits. Myself, Paddu and the late Feroz Khan were three of the very few backers Congratulations had when she won the Oaks as a long shot. For your information, Paddu too said after the victory he was damn confident of her victory and was shocked when he opened a pile of newspapers in his Oberoi Towers room that morning and found that barring MiD DAY, no other tipster in town had tipped congratulations in 1-2-3. Did anyone then say Paddu was bluffing?
In the very next para you say, ‘Humility costs nothing. If only he had said that he fancied his horse and it won, nobody would have taken affront,’ and confirm that had Satish narredu showed humility, he would not be maligned like this.
This doesn’t make sense, and surely is not reason enough to spoil the moment of glory of a small trainer.
Then you go on to say, ‘The owners of the horse were cooling their heels at Hyderabad. If Satish Narredu had thought that his horse may finish on frame, the sporting owners would surely have been in Bangalore to cherish the historic moment of winning a classic in Bangalore.’
All I ask is since you know the owners (coz you know they are ‘sporting’, so I presume), did you check with them if the trainer had called them or not, had told if he fancied the horse or not, and if so, why they were not there to lead in?
If you have NOT checked this, I think you are taking writer’s license to sow the seeds of doubt/confusion among the readers by harping on mere word play.
(contd....)
(contd... form last post)
ReplyDeleteThis is not the Sharan Kumar I know of. The Sharan Kumar I knew was somebody whose articles were unbiased and objective, not biased and filled with imaginary stuff.
Now about your last para. I did not defend Malesh Narredu. On repeated requests by a reader, I just put forth my analysis of the Derby, citing hard, cold, objective facts (which, unfortunately, you describe as ‘inventing theories’).
If my analysis went in favour of Malesh Narredu and his riding, that’s his luck, and he is welcome to it if it has helped him even a bit when the whole world was against him. And by the way, I did not say ‘the great horse brought misery on the jockey’—I never said Set Alight was a great horse. (In fact, I was the only one who always wondered if she was as great AT THE TIME OF THE DERBY as she was being made out to be.)
Contrary to what you say, I did ask Malesh about that famous ‘Sorry’.
My personal opinion is that a lot of misreporting has taken place in the aftermath of the Derby, some unintentional, some motivated. Any jockey who goes out on any favourite but returns a loser will say sorry to the trainer after returning to the paddock, it’s more a matter of manners than an explanation. It is unfortunate that in this instance too much was read into it.
And finally, for you information, I have never believed truth is the monopoly of numbers. If it lies on the side of one man against the whole of world, I have always sided with it—and it is not my changed ‘avatar’ as you allege. The first time I did it was when Aslam Kader was suspended on Exotic (1994), and I have reason to believe that the interview I did with him as cover story of The Indian Thoroughbred was instrumental in giving a fresh perspective of the whole affair to the then Board of Appeal and, justifiably, won him the reprieve.
I am sure our friendship will not suffer due to this exchange if you also learn to keep it non-personal like I have done in this response.
Warm regards,
Prakash Gosavi
Clash of titans organized by Mr.Nathani decade back at RWITC.There was a prize of One million rupees to the One brilliant,excellent,outstanding jockey on that day.A board was constituted with three members to decide the winning jockey and Prakash Gosavi was the one of the member.In a particular race on that day Three horses fought it out for supremacy from 100 mtrs onwards and Mallesh Narredu ridden horse was won and rest two jockies were Richard Hughes and K.Fallon.
ReplyDeleteWhen the time arrived to declare the winning jockey for the million purse Mr.Prakash Gosavi announced Narredu name as best jockey on that day and Narredu walked away with million rupees cash.When commentator asked Prakash how his team picked Narredu as winning jockey he felt nervous may be due to stage fear and qouted the above race which I mentioned as the deciding point.At that time I felt the decision was fixed one.Nevertheless May be Narredu and Prakash knowing each other well so the decision.
So this open letter is in full support of Narredus which need not surprise anyone who knows the above story which happened decade back.
When I was a small child I was told " Those who live in glass houses do not throw stones " . We are all guilty of changing our tune after the fact. Think about it, many a time we would have wished a particular horse wins and when it does win, we claim the we knew it would win. May be Satish hoped it would win (He being a racing professional I am sure, he meant hoped). In a race every horse has a chance however small it may be. My choice for that race was Alaricity, I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteWe need to learn not to be critical of others JUDGMENT as we ourselves err in it.
P.S We all have our own HEROES.
Mr Prakash ,Permit me to add a fourth and a fifth...That was a "musth...musth" put-on. I wish I could have had the last word. Hope Satish takes it in the right spirit or else you may find yourself standing behind Mr Bob. B.T.W.... 24 in 24hrs .were people waiting for this.Lastly pl check If its the genuine Mr Sharan speaking on your site.....I doubt.........
ReplyDeleteDear Cruising Away,
ReplyDeleteYou need to get your facts right before writing. There was no millioin rupees prize for the best jock in the 'Clash of titans' competition. The prize was a "Golden whip". It was NOT won by Narredu, it was won by K Fallon. And I was IN NO WAY concerned about awarding the prize, there was a points system based on which the winning team and the winning jockey were decided.
Please make sure you are supplying facts before hitting the keyboard next.
What you may be perhaps referring to was another competition day in which the best professional was to be awarded a memento (again, NOT a million rupees) and a sub-committee comprising myself, the late Mr J V Shukla (Indian Express) and Usman Rangeela (then Asian Age, now Mumbai Mirror) formed the judge's panel. I think it was the Eclipse Stakes of India day but I am not too sure about it. Three professionals were short-listed, I think they were: a trainer (either Uttam or Zadmal Singh) and two jockeys (B Prakash & Malesh Narredu) because they each I think won more than one race on that day.
When we discussed this short list, Mr Shukla was of the opinion that the prize should go to the trainer, while Usman argued in favour of Malesh Narredu due to some brilliant riding (maybe it was some close finish) and both I and Shukla finally agreed to Usman's recommedation because he convinced us it had merit.
Cyrus Madan who was conducting the day's paddock proceedings in fact asked us inside the weighing room if we did not think B Prakash deserved it more, and Usman gave him the same logic he had given to us.
So when presenting the prize, the commentator again asked for public's knowledge what prompted us to make that decision, I obviously thought he was asking Usman and not me, hence I must have momentarily hesitated in replying which you have interpreted in your own way.
I just spoke to Usman Rangeela to verify these facts.
By the way, just an aside. Related to your point of "stage fright", I want you to know that I have either won (or been runner up) in almost every single elocution/debating competition all through my school/college days, and even today, as a hobby, I go as "guest lecturer" to various clubs (Rotary, Lions & other private clubs in and around Bombay) and speak on a wide range of topics. If you are interested, you are welcome to witness my next lecture (it will be sometime next month) at a club of Medical practioners in central suburb. The topic will be" "Investment under uncertain conditions."
Dear Vaidyanathan,
I request you NOT to use this blog to run down anyone even if you may have your own reasons.
Dear Aswin Patel,
Thanks for writing in.
Dear Jawnsin,
I did not understand your message. Please explain. And yes, I have checked it's 'genuine Sharan' before posting the comment and writing the response.
First of all heartiest congratulations to the winning team. What a fantastic show.
ReplyDeleteComing to the cribs :( pls for heavens sake stop crying and try to appreciate the sport. Stop talking through your pockets. Just because you couldn't pick the winner you want to blame the tipsters. If you are so good then you should have backed the horse too.
And as far as you talking about the TRAINER & JOCKEY - I`d say "KNOW YOUR ROLE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH". The trainer is the one who WON Dr. M.A.M`s first Indian Derby winner. He rode 51 classics n over 700 winners for him. A top-class jockey by himself and as far as the jockey is concerned his record speaks for itself (though he might have been unlucky a few times). But he has proved himself time and again to put the critics back in their place. No trainer and no jockey is a fool to run his horse in a classic if he doesn't think he has a chance.
Coming to the fact of the situation - after the Mock race in which Sprint Star cruised and beat Mr. Greedy hands down, who apparently finished just a shade behind Fleeting Arrow in The Chief Justice Cup, puts him on the pedestal with the Winner of the Colts Trial Stakes a year back. So on this form you cannot take anything away from the horse.
Yes, as far as the horse not striking to the punters or tipsters could be because the horse runs first time after gelding and has never run over a mile and also the fact that the trainer himself is going through a rough patch.
However, I once again would like to Congratulate the NArredu Family and all the connections of the horse, for bringing him right at the right time.
I Dr Syed Ainuddin Arif, Owner of Sprint Start which won the Colts in Ban galore. My Trainer Mr Satish Naradu spoke to me, one half month before this race, he told me that the horse stepped on a nail. After a month he called me and told that the horse went for a mock race very comfortably and I am entering this horse for the Colts trail. And then
ReplyDeletehe asked me to come for the race. And I am fancying this horse that he should win. I was supposed to be there, but my nephew had come from the US on Sunday Morning 3:00 am. I was chatting with my nephew till 5:00 am. After some sleep, I missed the morning flight. I tried for the afternoon flight, but It would have been very late for the race.
Hence I had to watch the race from Hyderabad race course.
Before going to the racecourse I called my friend Mr. ShahRukh khan, brother of late actor Mr Feroz Khan to go to the race and collect the cup on my behalf. He took the cup on winning the race. I had also told my friends to back this horse, he backed 1000 Rs and he got 55,000 Rs. In Hyderabad and Bangalore other people also backed this horse.
I am writing this for your kind information.
Thank you
From the horse-owner's mouth
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Dr Syed Arif, owner of Sprint Star, called me on Wednesday night. He introduced himself and said Satish was so confident of winning this race after the kind of mock race the horse had gone that he wanted me in Bangalore at any cost. Even Malesh Narredu (who had ridden in the mock race), Dr Arif said, phoned him and urged him to be there on Sunday as there was a very good chance to win the race. Dr Arif said he then booked himself on the Kingfisher morning flight for the Bangalore trip, but missed the flight as his nephew who came from the U.S. took a lot of time, and came out of the Customs at 2 am.
"We reached home after that and chatted for a couple of hours," added Dr Syed, "I couldn't get up on time due to exhaustion and missed the flight."
He said he then tried for a later flight but was not sure he could make it to the racecourse in time to lead in the horse. That's when he called Mr Shahrukh Khan to go and receive the trophy if the horse won, as was strongly expected by the trainer.
He was aware of the controversy that had developed on this blog and just wanted to put all speculation to rest.
I jotted down the whole story, but still requested him to post it on my blog in the 'comments' section, which, apparently, he has done.
I have verified it is the real Dr Syed Arif, owner of Sprint Star, before requesting him to post the true story here on this blog.
I hope the truth is now crystal clear to everyone unless someone wants to say that like the trainer, the horse owner is also lying. Then, there is no end to this debate.
mr gosavi,
ReplyDeletesmart piece of work.
Dr Syed Arif , is a big owner in Hyderabad and Rafaat was handling his horses . After Rafaat quit training , the horses are now with Abbas and Prasad Raju.
Dr Syed also is a part owner of Red Romeo.
Now that the truth is out in the open , there is no option but to apologize to mr prakash gosavi as well to satish narredu. The web site which slandered the trainer has to carry the apology.
vaidyanathan
Should we now conclude Sat ( ish ) yameva Jayate.
ReplyDeletelol
Sprint Star must be having a sound sleep enjoying the adulation.
I read article and all comments. I am shocked by two peoples views. One is Sharan Kumar.he has wasted his years in racing journalism if he didnt check facts before making serious allegations of delberately lying against the trainer. Second one is crusing away how can a fellow put so much drama in words when basic facts only are wrong. He should try make carrier in tv serial writing.
ReplyDeleteI for all cannot understand as to whom we are defending or trying to criticize here. One Mr.Satish Narredu who has never been truthful or faithful I must say barring which he would have been in the place of Mr. S Ganapathy now, Second Mr. Mallesh Narredu, whose record on (word edited) the race track speaks for itself(His strike rate for losing on hot favorites [Part of sentence deleted by Blog Moderator). So I guess there is no point in losing friendships for these people.
ReplyDeleteI guess we can leave it at that,
Regards,
Amith.
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Great Going Prakash....Keep it up
ReplyDeleteMr Gosavi.
ReplyDeleteI must say a wonderfull letter, it made my mind think before i read the next line as to what were you going to write. mind blowing. something i will read again and again, and this leter is far the best i have read for a long long time. keep them comming.
PS: I read come of the comments and i must some people JUST ANT READ BETWEEN THE LINES (ha ha ha )
Hi, Prakash
ReplyDeleteYour article is fantastic and we all race goers are completely for you,
Sharan is completely biased to Paddy first and then suprisingly P.Shroff remember how he took up for him after the Set Alight debacle.You dear Sir, are right there on the top where you belong.
"I did not understand your message
ReplyDeletePlease explain" (Jun 24, 2009 9:09:00 PM)
What hv you not understood, Mr Prakash,Pl specify..........
Can you explain this please?
ReplyDelete"Mr Prakash ,Permit me to add a fourth and a fifth...That was a "musth...musth" put-on. I wish I could have had the last word."
Mr Prakash..That,s simple........you mentioned that you had "Three ‘must’s in once sentence? What has happened to me?"I just wanted to say that your article was "must musth"meaning, beautiful, in(mumbai) hindi.Just a play of the word "must' ..A put-on, simply means "an act of teasing or misleading someone, especially for amusement".And finally when I said that I wanted the last word I just meant I wished I could have written that article.Now I hope I have clarified it to your satisfaction and happy that you did not misapprehend my comments,as I am in no position to low blow you at any point of time.
ReplyDeleteMallesh Narredu is a true-blue villian of Indian horse racing. We have all seen him pull horses with our eyes. His suspensions by RWITC speak for themselves. A cheat is a cheat is a cheat. So, why should we believe that the jockey was so confident of the horse winning that he pleaded with the owner to come to Bangalore to see his hose win? In a race for 3-year classic hopefuls, there can be any number of horses who will show improvement, and the previous form is likely to go topsy-turvy due to extra 200M. Leonardo could have easily spoiled Sprint Star's party. Then with what face would have M Narredu faced the owner of Sp. Star?
ReplyDeleteThe way the owner writes in his post is childish. He says he asked someone to collect his cup BEFORE he left for Hyderabad race-course. The owner is making Sp. Star out to be a racing certainty (plz go and collect the cup on my behalf - hahaha!) If this horse was a racing certainty, then as we all know in Indian racing, the word would have leaked out thru syces and rider-boys; and instead of odds lengthening to 100/1, the horse would have run at maybe 10/1 or 8/1.
Sorry, Mr Gosavi, I still don't buy it - in fact the utterances of owner of Sp. Star are even less credible than those of the trainer.
Dear Jawnsin, that was real dumb of me. At times you intrigue and amuse me. Thanks for explaining.
ReplyDeleteDear Rajendra Kumar,
You don't have to buy, because I am not selling anything.
My job is to post all views whether they are my own, my friend Sharan's, yours or of Dr Syed Arif, Sprint Star's owner. And I am just trying to do it as best as possible.
Btw, thanks for writing in.
Now the influence of Narredus has rubbed off on the owner who too is forced to tell a lie. He was confident of winning and told his friend to go and receive the trophy. But his friend did not believe him and came in his casuals and had to borrow somebody's coat to receive the prize! Also remember the horse does not have one owner but two owners. The other owner was certainly not held up receivinghis nephew or attening late night session that he could not make it to the venue in Bangalore!
ReplyDeleteI read about Arif Ainuddi's post recently. I had planned to write but dealyed it as I was too lazy. Incidentally, Arif has so much of phobia about traveling by air that he travels by car only. Even when he came to Mumbai a few times because of Red Romeo, he traveled from Hyerabad by road. This is for your information. I don't what made Arif to say that he booked a ticket on Kingfisher
ReplyDeletePosted wrongly on another article on Jun 28, 2009 2:13:00 AM
Re-published by Blog Moderator on relevant topic on June 28, 7:00:00 AM
anonymos like dr syed why dont you write with your real name? it's bad to make allegations without name. mr gosavi you shouldnot allow this.
ReplyDeleteShrikant Naidu
ReplyDeleteThe moral of the story is that "Sprint Star" won the race and few people are not happy with it
At last no matter what " The Best Ones " always wins the race and people always talk good or bad things about the best ones
So stop fighting guys you will land no where