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The new year has kicked off on the UAE tracks with racing at Jebel Ali. With a seven-race card, the meet was highlighted by The Jebel Ali Mile Prep run over 1600m and saw eight contesting the race with three carrying the famous yellow silks of racecourse patron Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. However, it was Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum-owned Down on the Bayou who took the race out ...
Rich Strike: the 3YO colt who conquered the most exciting two minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby. He will now look to return to the winner’s circle in the $12 million Dubai World Cup on March 25. Trainer Eric Reed has said that his horse has improved since the feature win in May putting his competitors on notice. “He is twice the horse that he was in May physically and mentally,” Reed told ...
With a new year upon us so are the updated rating revisions out of the Dubai Racing Club. Remorse (113) is the 5YO gelding has had 15 starts only being out of placings twice. The son of Dubawi and Jealous Again has four wins and has had three Group company starts and is trained by master trainer Bhupat Seemar. Partnered with Tadhg O’Shea they saw victory last start in The Listed Entisar over ...
The most valuable race on the seven-race card at Meydan was the UAE 1000 Guineas Trial which threw up a surprise in results. With talk prior to the race being around the Saeed Bin Suroor 2YO Deep Thoughts and the Godolphin master trainer’s dominance over the feature UAE 1000 Guineas. The other key storyline in the Doug Watson pair of Asawer and Awasef. However, it was the Salem bin Ghadayer ...
It was a Bhupat Seemar training clinic in The Listed Entisar on Friday night at Meydan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzrTb2zGHb8 Over the same 2000m on dirt as the Dubai World Cup, the Entisar attracted a quality field of seven, including four Grade One winners among them. Bendoog, the young 3YO looked immaculate stepping out for Bhupat Seemar with James Doyle onboard. The Gun Runner-Nellie ...
Twelve wins and defending champion. The UAE 1000 Guineas has proven to be Saeed bin Suroor’s masterclass with Godolphin’s lead and longest serving trainer holding the record as leading trainer for the major race. This Friday, the UAE 1000 Guineas Trial will held and run over 1400m as the most valuable race on the Meydan card at AED183,650. Bin Suroor prepares the 2YO filly Deep Thoughts who is a ...
The Listed Entisar Stakes will be the highlight of Meydan races on Friday and give a glimpse of what is to come in the Dubai World Cup. First run in 2014, the Entisar Stakes is run over the same 2000 metres as the $12 million Dubai World Cup and this year’s edition features some past contenders of the feature DWC. The field also sees four Grade 1 winners including defending champion For The Top ...
Thirty-five seasons at the top is an achievement to be rivalled. For Frankie Dettori it is all coming to an end following an announcement by the 52-year-old yesterday. After a career that has spanned close to four decades the master hoop is putting a finish time on what has seen him victorious around the globe with one final season in the saddle. Announcing yesterday he said he would be calling ...
Nine weeks of racing at the UAE’s flagship racecourse, the Dubai World Cup Carnival will offer up some of the best talent that the world has to offer. With the Dubai World Cup at its pinnacle, stables and trainers prepare their best to represent them on the world stage. With millions in prizemoney on offer the nominations have been accepted with nearly 150 horses travelling from 16 countries. ...
Meydan saw a return of racing yesterday with the running of the 1600m Listed Dubai Creek Mile. The race was won by Prince Eiji making up half of a double for the Pat Dobbs and Doug Watson partnership. Purchased by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum who spent 2,600,000gns, via trainer Roger Varian, to secure the now 6yo gelded son of Dubawi as a yearling in 2017. Out of the gates Avant Garde was a ...
A seven-race thoroughbred card at Meydan on Thursday kicks off the festival weekend followed by the meetings at Al Ain on Friday and Jebel Ali on Saturday and reaching a climax when Abu Dhabi stages their biggest meeting on Sunday. The Gr.1 Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Jewel Crown for the Purebred Arabians takes the spotlight in the capital’s meeting that also includes the National Day Cup ...
Hall of Famer, 50YO Velazquez, rode the Bill Mott-trained Precursory to victory, completing his 1,000th career race at Saratoga Racecourse. He proudly owns five Saratoga riding titles including three Gr.1 Kentucky Derby wins. He has also won The Gr.1 Belmont Stakes and the Gr.1 Travers twice. He has a pair of Eclipse Awards as the nation's outstanding jockey as well. The winner’s circle saw an ...
