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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 Cashman colt had the advantage of a previous appearance this season, coming away with the win landing a 1600m conditions race, at Meydan, three weeks ago.
It showed with the jump and the journey under Doyle that no matter his age he was ready to compete in this feature.
Exiting the straight Bendoog took the lead with First Constitution coming up to take over with 1200m in their sights.
The pace held steady but Remorse came up three wide to eye the leading pair and move up to hit the lead with 200m left and pulled away on his stable mate Bendoog.
He had come second last year but jockey Tadhg O’Shea was not going to let history repeat coming away with the win with the 5YO gelded son of Dubawi.
For Remorse the win signalled the continued improvement he had shown last season, highlighted by his second-place finish in the Group 1 Al Maktoum Challenge R3 over this same 2000m course and distance. He has not been seen in public since beaten just under five lengths, in sixth, in the Dubai World Cup, late in March.
But in the end, this did not matter with Seemar commenting prior to the race on both of his runners Bendoog and Remorse.
“Remorse just kept on improving last year; he went from winning conditions race at Jebel Ali to knocking on the door in all the big races, including a superb run in the World Cup. It has always been the plan to bring him back in The Entisar and go from there,” he said.
“As for Bendoog, he just keeps growing!
“He has matured mentally but this is a big step up in grade and will tell us where we are with him.”
If this performance is a gauge it seems to signal that we will be seeing a lot more from this pair in Remorse and Bendoog over the remainder of the season.
The win in the AED 132,500 feature added to the successful partnership of O’Shea and Seemar while also ringing up another winning quinella for the trainer.
By Rowan Anderson.