M A M Ramaswamy, Leading Individual Owner at Bangalore races

Bangalore, Mar 31 (UNI) Industrialist Dr M A M Ramaswamy, who had won a stake of Rs 1.33 crore, bagged the Leading Individual Owner memento in the Bangalore Winter meeting 2006-2007, today.

Bangalore Turf Club Chairman and Senior Steward Marlingaiah presented the mementoes.

M/s Poonawala Racing Breed Limited and Capt. Jamshed J Appoo were the leading joint owners with a stake of Rs 12.5 lakhs.

While S Ganapathy with 31 winners claimed the Champion Trainer memento, the Champion Jockey title went to K P G appu with 41 winners. Ashwin Rao, with five winners, was the Champion Indian Jockey Claiming Allowance.

'Star Luminary' was declared the Champion Horse with a stake of Rs 47.6 lakh. It is the property of Dr Ramaswamy, trained by S Ganapathy and bred at Usha Stud Farm.

The horse of the season 'Lava' had won three races and was placed second thrice. It is the property of Mr C Shivamani, trained by B Puttanna and bred at Pratap Stud.

Kunigal Stud Farm with 39 winners was the leading stud farm.

M/s Kumar Company with a total field money of Rs 30 lakhs was the Leading Bookmaker in first enclosure and M/s B N K Enterprises with a total field money of Rs 5.7 lakh in the second enclosure.

Prajavani with 109 winners became the Leading Tipster (Newspaper) and Race Card Publisher, The Racing Today, with 102 winners.

UNI