M. Srinivas Reddy-trained Golden Arrow, who won his last outing quite impressively, should win the K. Mahipathi Rao Memorial Million 1400 metres, the feature event of the Independence Day’s races to be held here on Thursday. False Rails are up.

Pesi Shroff-trained Oxbridge holds an edge over rest of the runners to win the PRA Independence Million, the feature event of the races to be held here on Thursday.

R.V. Gowli-trained Malpensa was ridden well by Shailesh Shinde to win the Sweet Senorita Cup, the feature event of the races held in Kolkata on Wednesday.

Following are the runners for the concluding day’s races of the Bengaluru Summer Meeting on Friday.

Golden Queen worked well when the horses were exercised at Malakpet Racecourse here on Wednesday.

Former India cricketer Ajay Jadeja is set to return to competetive cricket after a gap of six years. The 42-year-old, who was a mainstay of the Indian middleorder in the late 90s scoring 5,359 runs with six centuries in 196 ODIs, will lead Haryana at the Kalpati-Buchi Babu all-India invitation tournament that begins here on Thursday.

He is disappointed to have lost out on a medal at the World Championships, but Parupalli Kashyap said the quarter-final that he lost was the best match of his career and that he wants to continue with the momentum.
Kashyap, world no. 17, had a match -point in the second game third ranked Chinese Du Pengyu but failed to convert. He went on to lose 21-16, 20-22, 15-21 and a chance to secure a bronze.

Himmat Singh Rai emerged triumphant at a Jamega Tour event at the Players Club near Bristol, England, on Tuesday. Rai shot scores of 66 and 71 to end up with a total of three-under-137 at the par-70 course. James Ruth (66-72) of England, one stroke behind Himmat, took the second spot.

The archive of British Oscar winning actress Vivien Leigh, famous for her leading role in American classic Gone With The Wind, has been acquired by London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.

For Ashton Kutcher — whose abiding image seems to have been as the cute but intellectually challenged Michael Kelso from That ’70s Show — his new film Jobs is important for more reasons than one.