Despite her fourth place in the HPSL Indian Derby (Gr 1) in the last start, the market (read bookmakers who set the odds) refused to give any respect to Thalassa, sending her ante-post odds of 7/10   to shoot beyond 9/4, but got their fingers burnt badly in the process as the four-year-old filly trained by Faisal Abbas moved up dramatically in the hands of jockey A Sandesh to ridicule her class II rivals.

Later on the card Sandesh powered another Faisal Abbas ward, Cinderella's Dream, to a thrilling photo finish victory in the lower division of the Racing Officials Trophy, beating apprentice jockey Aditya Waydande who gave an equally inspired ride to Ocean. However, the rookie Waydande made amends immediately in the next race, the Trainers Trophy, when he brought longshot Rambler from the rear with a sustained run to decisively beat Earth (Bharat Singh up) who was shaping up like a winner close home.