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Dominant Performance Sets Dubai Classic Precedence Six lengths. Dominant as ever storming home in the Godolphin blue Dubai Future took out last year’s Dubai Racing Club Classic with Pat Cosgrove onboard. Beating home stablemate Star Safari under James Doyle the gelded son of Dubawi went on to take out The Listed Wolferton Stakes at Ascot before returning to the UAE and winning the Group 3 ...
The fact Noble Truth is still only four years old is a scary prospect. Having won a Group Three and two Listed races, one by close to six margins in his career to date bodes well for the gelded son of Kingman trained by Godolphin’s Charlie Appleby. Breaking his maiden on his second start in 2021 at Newmarket he went on to win the Listed Cazoo Flying Scotsman Stakes, the Listed King Charles ...
The Group Three Dubawi Stakes is all about legacy. Run over 1200 metres this year’s edition will take place this Friday night at Meydan after first being contested at Group 3 level in 2018. Dubai Millennium was a talented colt who finished his career with nine wins from ten starts and $4.4 million in race winnings. His major wins included the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (1999), Al Maktoum ...
Bupat Seemar is ready to take the Al Maktoum Challenge Round One armed with six hopes on Friday night. If the Dubai World Cup is the Grand Final for the stars of the track in the UAE, then the Al Maktoum Challenge is the first of three races which serves as a trial for the DWC. Seemar is yet to win the race but his uncle six-time UAE champion trainer Satish Seemar prepared winner North America ...
The late and great Ertijaal will be recognised on Friday at Meydan when the Ertijaal Dubai Dash is raced in his name for the first time. The Shadwell's homebred son of Oasis Dream began his career in Britain, trained by William Haggas, before being transferred to Ali Rashid Al Rayhi campaigning in the UAE for his next four seasons, as a seven-year-old. The gelding won the Gr.3 Meydan Sprint ...
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 ...
Qatar held a ten-race card with results that could preview things to come for racing in the UAE this season. Highlighted by the Listed Qatar Oaks it was the 23rd race meeting for the 2022-23 season organised by The Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC). The race day was filled with action and equine talent, with half of the card showcasing fillies and mares as they contested for the five Oaks ...
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 ...
Nomadic Empire will be looking at continuing his success with a win in the Al Riffa Cup in Bahrain today. The 4YO gelded son of Kodiac and Beatify took the victory in the Al Manama Cup last time out at the start of December winning by half a length. He now lines up for a tilt at the Al Riffa Cup run over the 1200m with a strong field of 16. The David O’Meara-trained runner will partner with the ...
Sharjah closed out the year of UAE racing with a six-race card, highlighted by the GCC Cup which saw a race-to-race riding double partnered with trainer in a great way to cap off the year. Brazilian hoop Bernardo Pinheiro rode the first two winners on the card for trainer Majed Al Jahoori The opening race on the card was a 1200m maiden set for 3YO colts and geldings and Pinheiro rode the ...
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 ...
