Sunspirit, Supremacy and Allez Vite impressed when the following horses were exercised on the trial track here on Friday.
Outer sand:

Education ministers of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal met Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal on Friday and demanded additional funds from the Centre to implement the Right to Education Act.

Jagdish Singh Dhariwal-trained ultra consistent performer, Angelfire, holds an edge over others to win the Speaker’s Cup, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday.

Army Chief General V.K. Singh met home minister P. Chidambaram on Friday and is believed to have discussed training and operational tactics of Central forces to fight the Naxal menace. Gen. Singh and Mr Chidambaram had a closed door meeting which lasted around twenty minutes. Emerging from the meeting, Gen. Singh refused to disclose details of what transpired at the meeting and said it was just a courtesy call.

A dozen horses were accepted to contest for the Karnataka Cup, the main event in the nine-event card framed for the races to be held here on Sunday.
the acceptances:

The ruling Congress on Friday expressed “deep anguish and sorrow” over the tragic deaths in the train accident took place in West Bengal, whereas Opposition BJP found this an opportunity to browbeat the government by accusing it of failing to firmly deal with the “enormous challenge” of Naxalism. The Saffron party claimed that the accident was a result of Naxal attack.

The war between the sports ministry and the brass of the Indian Olympic Association and National Sports Federations over tenure limits has of late turned into an exchange of letters, with the latter frequently flaunting letters of support from the world governing body or their Asian counterpart.

Little knew Sukumar Banerjee what fate had scripted for him when he got a berth away from the rest of his family members in the Gyaneswari Express on his way to Rourkela. It meant life for him and death for the rest.

Amidst strong opposition from the African bloc, John Howard’s ambition of becoming ICC president got a boost with president-elect Sharad Pawar backing the process of his nomination.

The Central Information Commission on Thursday held that the relative assessment with peers which becomes the basis of promotion for a government employee should be disclosed under the RTI Act.