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Do these long grey locks, dark glasses and grey goatee beard belong to a filmi villain, godman or just plain old Vijay Mallya at the McDowell Indian Derby races? Vijay Mallya: "We have been sponsoring this race for twenty years. We have made it the hottest sporting event where the beautiful people of not just Bombay, but all over India, want to be seen! W have made it the richest race in India with a record Rs. One Crore in stakes. On an occasion like this, people love to dress up, like at the Ascot in the UK. Winning the Derby you need a lot of luck, and a good horse too! The horses that race at the Derby are bought at the age of two years!" Vijay Mallya in his heady days, at the opening ceremony of his new Race course: "You know Cyrus, we first started sponsoring this event twenty years
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