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Martin Dwyer is Field Marshal at Mysore

English jockey Martin Dwyer rode a splendid race on favourite Field Marshal to guide the Padmanabhan trainee to victory in the Gr 1 Poonawalla Mysore Derby in front of a capacity crowd on Sunday. The three year old son of the now diceased Placerville won the premier event in a hard way, winning it start to finish in a new record timing of two minutes 01.54 seconds in hot and humid conditions. Padmanabhan thus saddled his 12th Derby winner and three of them have been for owner Haresh N Mehta who earlier Derby winners from the Bangalore based trainer were Holding Court and Becket. Field Marshal had won the Mysore 2000 Guineas by literally swamping the opposition and earned the tag of highest rated three year old classic winner in the country. There were many who believed that since Field Marshal is out of a Sprinters Cup winning Shamaal, there could be stamina limitations especially since he was expected to do the entire front running and then last out the trip. The strongly built Fiel