Ace Indian jockey Suraj Narredu rode his first winner in Australia on Thursday when he manouvered three-year-old brown filly Pasheona to victory at the Kilmore racetrack. Suraj has been in Australia since April, riding for trainers C Maher & D Eustace who jointly train under a partnership firm.

The most successful Indian jockey (2,302 wins) jokingly confessed after the victory that this was perhaps the longest “dry spell”, referring to the nearly one month he took to register his first victory down under.