“You can give pounds to your rivals; but you can't give them yards” is a wise old saying in horse racing. But apparently, ace jockey A Sandesh had not heard it. And he learnt truth of it the hard way, paying heavy price in the process, as hot popular fancy Juliette failed to collar the Pesi Shroff-trained Alluring Silver (Suraj Narredu up), who posted a sensational performance to win the most sought after title in Indian horse racing, the Zavaray S Poonawalla Indian Turf Invitation Cup (Gr 1).

Shroff on Sunday also saddled the winner of the other prominent race of the day, the Villoo Poonwalla Indian 1000 Guineas, when Miracle gave an armchair ride to jockey P S Chouhan making a mockery of eight rivals.