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Superb Boy went into the Class 3 Peninsula Golden Jubilee Challenge Cup Handicap over 1000m at Sha Tin with his stables hopes of success. The 4YO Nicconi gelding was looking to build on his career and make it four wins from eight starts when he stepped out after a five-week break between starts. Trainer Lui was optimistic about Superb Boy’s chances pre-race. “He’s kept improving, he’s a lovely ...
UAE National Day saw spectators seeing double over and over and over again. With a seven-race card, for purebred Arabians in Al Ain, spectators saw two-time celebrations from a jockey, a trainer, and a trainer-jockey partnership. Hoop Fernando Jara has this season already landed three winners with two coming from this meet in a performance sure to show his ability and plans for the season. In ...
Sunday racing at Abu Dhabi will see Group company with some of the best stables showcasing their starters for the season. The Group One Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Jewel Crown will run over 2200m and is one of the richest purebred Arabian races in the world. Lady Princess will return to show why she is one of the best in the racing scene currently with 12 wins and five placings from her 17 ...
Big bulking frame with muscle and an engine that is ready to succeed. Bendoog is a horse ready to win and this season looks to be a great one for the three-year-old Gun Runner-Nellie Cashman colt. Bhupat Seemar is not shy when it comes to talking up his potential. “Bendoog is a ginormous horse - what he did last year was incredible for his size. The horse only broke his maiden two months ...
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 ...
The Inevitable may have earned a trip to Dubai after unleashing his trademark turn of foot to take his stakes tally to five in Wednesday’s Listed Jacksons Security Newmarket (1200m) at Launceston. Ridden by David Pires for Scott Brunton, the 7YO son of Dundeel ran down stablemate First Accused by half a length with a further three-quarter length back to Alpine Wolf in third. The Inevitable ...
Alcohol Free, sold for 5.4 million gns on Tattersalls earlier this week, is set to race on in Australia where the four-time Group One winner will join the training partnership of Sydney legend Gai Waterhouse & Adrian Bott. The 4YO daughter of No Nay Never, who raced in Europe for owner Jeff Smith and trainer Andrew Balding, was the star attraction as she entered a sales ring that was standing ...
Annabel Neasham believes Laws Of Indices is the perfect horse to represent Australia when he takes on the mighty Golden Sixty in the Gr.1 Hong Kong Mile Chris Waller-trained Comin’ Through, unplaced four years ago in the same race, was the last Australian horse to attempt the Mile. Former Irish-trained Laws Of Indices, a Gr.1 winner in France in last year’s Prix Jean Prat, joined Sydney-based ...
After a stellar 2YO campaign in which he won the Gr.1 Golden Rose in Sydney in September and finished a good fifth in The Everest in October, star 3YO Jacquinot has returned to work to begin preparation for two major Gr.1 Melbourne features in February. The victory at the Golden Rose Stakes by Jacquinot spurred a deal worth an estimated US$15 million between the NSW breeder Widden Stud and Qatar ...
On November 29 in England, at the age of 21, Ouija Board passed away, a report in Thoroughbred Daily News states. She was a two-time champion grass mare in North America. Ouija Board, a son of Cape Cross and a daughter of Welsh Pageant's Selection Board, won ten races, nine of which were stakes, and brought in a total of $6,312,552. She took first place in both the 2004 VO5 Breeders' Cup Filly ...
Day Two of the Tattersalls December Mares Sale on November 29 saw the sale of two-time Gr.1 winner Saffron Beach for 3,600,000 guineas ($4,520,718) to Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Abdulaziz's Najd Stud. The filly is staying with trainer Jane Chapple-Hyam so she can reach her international goal. Chapple-Hyam remarked, "It's a tremendous delight and a big honour, and we've got a fantastic winter ...
