Champion trainer Pesi Shroff did it again. After winning the fillies classic and the Derby on Setalight in 2005, the master struck it rich again this summer, the best filly in his yard Manifold emerging the best of her age in the Fillies Championship Stakes before proudly wearing the Derby sash on Sunday.
Shroff was confident that the bred in the purple filly from the famed Usha Stud Farm owned and bred by Ameeta Mehra had the ability to match strides with the nine best colts in the blue riband of the season. “ She had improved most after her maiden classic success and more importantly she was enjoying the climate and the conditions at this centre. She was in a good frame of mind and she was raring to go,” said the champion immensely pleased with the gutsy effort of the `Queen’ filly’ who produced her best to snuff out the pillar to post attempt of the favourite Castlebridge.
