Golden Heart will have an exploratory run in Pune on Sunday as she feels her way back from injury.
Golden Heart is a three-year-old filly who has run three times and was found to be injured when running last of seven in the Jockeys Association of India Trophy over 1,600 metres (a mile) in Pune on August 10.
Golden Heart faces 13 other runners in Pune, where she is based, in the Royal Barbershop Trophy – a race over 1,400m (seven furlongs) at 3.40pm local time. She will be ridden by SJ Sunil.
“She worked well recently,” trainer Malesh Narredu told Kingsmoor.com. “And her problems have not shown in the work. It is a very big field and I just want to see how she runs. I want to give her won more race before I take her back to Bombay.”
Among her rivals include last-time winner Neptune from Karthik Ganapathy’s stable and Red Dust, another recent winner trained by Faisal Abbas but Kingsmoor’s racing director James O’Donnell is just delighted to see the daughter of stallion Planetaire and dam She’s Zoff, back on a racecourse competing.
“She has recovered extremely well from the injury she picked up in her last race in the middle of August,” he told Kingsmoor.com.
“She has had three months of recuperation and we have been extremely happy with the way she has recovered. She has been galloping again in preparation for this run and we are excited to get her back on the track.
“As this is her first race returning from an injury we we’ll be using this race to increase fitness and to make sure that she is fully recovered.
“As with all athletes the horse’s welfare is the most important factor here and we need to make sure she is fully recovered which we believe she is.”
