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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 ...
Abu Dhabi played host to a six-race card highlighted by the Listed Abu Dhabi Championship which put the talented thoroughbreds centre stage. In the final of the card and worth AED 380,000, the Listed contest run over 2200m attracted a field of seven runners. Before the race the 6YO gelded son of Farhh, Away He Goes, trained by Ismail Mohammed had been campaigning against some of the best stayers ...
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 ...
The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Cup holds prestigious status run over the 1200 and the win added to Patrick Dobbs win count in the saddle. The season so far for Dobbs has seen him cross the line first 15 times from 82 runs for the 44-year-old Irish product. The hoop showed his skills once again producing his mount As Qoot to hit the lead in the final 75m and come away with the win for ...
My Frankel took out the SAR $1 million Crown Prince Cup (Domestic Group 1) on the weekend and will now be on track to line up in the Kings Cup in January. On board the 5YO jockey James Doyle recorded the win in his first rides in Saudi Arabia since the Saudi Cup meet in earlier this year. Doyle first rode in Saudi Arabia in the 2013-14 season with his last winner in Saudi being during the ...
Highlighted by the Jebel Ali Stakes Prep, Jebel Ali held a six-race card on Saturday night with a training treble and jockey double being clocked up. The prep race is run over 1800m, 150 shorter than the Listed race itself held at the end of February, won last season by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum’s Lost Eden. Quality Humour won the first race on the card, breaking his maiden after ...
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 ...
Racing returned to Abu Dhabi and with the six-race card came another Ernst Oertel and Tadhg O’Shea winning double. The card opened with a 2200m handicap for horses in private ownership with the first leg of the double kicking off proceedings. Tadhg O’Shea, riding for his main employer, Champion Owner Khalid Khalif Al Nabooda rode AF Ramz comfortably hitting the lead with 275m left of the trip ...
The Saudi Cup meeting is the world’s most valuable race meet and attracts the best trainers and horses in the world. Karl Burke knows how to win major races and get the best from his horses as he sets a plan for his stables Saudi mission. When the multiple Group One winning trainer arrives in Saudi, he will have two of his stars accompanying him in Holloway Boy and Al Qareem. Holloway Boy is his ...
Second chances are very hard to come by. When 4YO colt Sisfahan lines up in the Group 3 Red Sea Turf Cup Handicap on Saudi Cup Day in February it will be a prime example. An injury suffered during training put a stop to him lining up in the feature last year, but Henk Grewe will now prepare his 2021 German Derby winner ready for this start. The injury ruled him out for most of the following ...
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. ...
