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Sir Cecil, don't ignore Ms Adjudicate - By Shailendra Awasthi - TOI

Posted on - 31 Jan 2019

Sir Cecil, don’t ignore Ms Adjudicate
By Shailendra.Awasthi - TOI
 
Mumbai:
Kolkata challenger Adjudicate, who stormed into the reckoning for the Indian Derby with emphatic victories in the 1000 and 2000 Guineas and Derby at her home centre, is fit and all set for the biggest prize in the country, according to her trainer James McKeown, the only foreign-origin trainer to come to Mumbai for decades.
 
“I wish there was a longer duration between Kolkata Derby (on January 13) and Indian Derby (February 3) but that is not going to affect her performance,” says the 40-year-old Briton who was an assistant to champion Bengaluru trainer S Padmanabhan for seven years before branching out independently in the winter of 2015 in Kolkata.
 
“Adjudicate has taken the travel well this time. Last year when she had travelled to Mumbai, she had developed fever,” informed the man who was born in a racing family in England. His father Terrance Patrick McKeown rode in India. McKeown rode horses in the Bangalore Amateur Riders Institute (BARI). His mother Lady Jane Cecil trained in England while his step-father Sir Henry Cecil was a legendary trainer in England having won every big race there.
 
McKeown revealed that Adjudicate, the daughter of Irish father Multidimensional and Indian mother Alvarita, is doing extremely well in her morning workouts. “I’m satisfied with her condition and my filly will be a live threat to favourite Sir Cecil and other serious challengers,” stressed McKeown who worked under top trainers in England and handled Indian champions Holding Court and In The Spotlight on their foreign assignments.
 
With Roberta ruled out of contention on fitness grounds, Adjudicate will carry the fillies’ hopes against the two top colts in the fray, Sir Cecil and Star Superior, in the blue riband of Indian Turf. The way she has won her previous three Classics 1000 Guineas by 6-1/4, 2000 Guineas by 6 and Derby by 9-1/4 lengths, Adjudicate is certainly a live danger to fancied ones on Sunday.

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