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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 ...
Trainer William Haggas has announced that the Shadwell Estate-owned Baaeed, will appear on the second day of the Henry Cecil Open Weekend heading to France for his final run in the Gr.1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. This year, the unbeaten colt will take center stage, although he had appeared at the same event 12 months ago with stablemates Alenquer and Addeybb. Charlie Fellowes, chairman of ...
Emirati trainer Ahmed Al Shemaili is all set to move his training base to Dubai and will now operate out of Grandstand Stables in the shadows of the city’s marquee Meydan Racecourse. Al Shemaili enjoyed a brilliant run and will view the 2021/2022 campaign as his breakthrough season after securing a career-best eight wins, which in turn brought him his best career earnings in a season of ...
Ali Al Bedwawi has been added to the expanding roster of trainers at Meydan Racecourse. According to Dubai Racing Club,Al Bedwawi will run horses in his own name for the first time during the forthcoming UAE season, which gets underway on October 28th. The Emirati brings with him a wealth of experience to the role, having spent the last six years as assistant to former UAE Champion Trainer Erwan ...
Dubai Racing Club is pleased to announce the launch of the first UAE National Farriers Training Programme, in cooperation with the Lootah Technical Center. Farriery is a highly skilled profession and one which is integral to the wellbeing of the horse. Dubai Racing Club has become the first of its kind in the region to launch a bespoke programme aimed at training and qualifying UAE National ...
Dubai Racing Club has announced that Bhupat Seemar has been appointed as a trainer at Zabeel Stables after his highly successful 2021/22 UAE racing season which saw him saddle 47 winners. Seemar, 45, brings with him a wealth of experience to the role. Originally from India, he trained in the US as an intern at Taylor Made Farms and also enjoyed a spell as assistant to multiple Dubai World ...
Preakness winner Early Voting had his first serious workout alongside stablemate Zandon in preparation for Gr.2, Jim Dandy, a nine-furlong test for sophomores. The colts trained by four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, are scheduled to run in the US$600,000 feature as a steppingstone to the Travers. Jeff Drown’s Zandon went five-eighths solo in 1:01.95 under exercise rider Kriss ...
