Madras Race Club to host Invitation Cup in March
The Hindu
196 races, spread over four months, to get underway in Chennai from November 7
Around 650 horses, including 182 two-year-olds, will take part in the 30-day Chennai racing season 2021-2022.
The highlight of the season will be the 60th running of the Indian Turf Invitation Cup in March 2022, said Nirmal Prasad, secretary of the Madras Race Club, at a press conference on Wednesday. .
The season scheduled to begin on Nov. 5 (Friday) will now start on Nov. 7. (Sunday) because of persistent rains rendering underfoot conditions not conducive for racing. The concluding meeting will be on March 6, 2022.
He has worn India’s blues, albeit in an Under-19 World Cup, with K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat as his teammates. He has proudly adorned the Lion’s Crest — the famed Mumbai cricket logo — in all three formats. He has played with Yuvraj Singh, against Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid and has the likes of Rahul and Joe Root in his illustrious list of dismissals. He is also a software developer for an IT giant, based in California. Virtually every middle-class Indian over the last three decades at some stage dreams of being either a cricketer or an IT professional. Saurabh Netravalkar has been combining two dreams, even after relocating to USA to pursue academics at the prestigious Cornell University in 2015.