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After winning Saturday's Gr.2 Cigar Mile, Hoist the Gold will enjoy a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks at a farm in Kentucky. Following this period of rest, the talented horse is expected to resume training before embarking on a journey to the highly-anticipated US$20 million Gr.1 Saudi Cup in February at King Abdulaziz Racecourse. Jim Culver, president of Dream Team One Racing Stable, ...
Leading Saudi Arabia-based bloodstock agent Ahmad Alabdullatif, is eagerly anticipating the first Sales races of the season in Saudi Arabia, expected to take place at Ta’if Racecourse. Alabdullatif purchased Saudi Derby (2023) winner Commissioner King for just US$9,000 at Keeneland In January 2021. The two races, which are open to fillies and colts sold at the 2022 JCSA Auction, carry prize ...
This Saturday, there will be a high-class day of racing at King Khalid Racecourse in Ta'if, featuring two SAR1m Listed contests, the Prince Abdullah Alfaisal Cup and the King Faisal Cup for Purebred Arabians. Among the competitors will be Commissioner King, last year's Gr.3 Saudi Derby winner, who is returning to action. Last season, Commissioner King, a gelding owned by FMQ Stables, managed to ...
At the Royal Ascot meeting on Thursday, Courage Mon Ami, from Juddmonte - the Saudi-owned breeding operation, won three Group one victories, making it a hat-trick for the world-leading sire Frankel. Trained by John and Thady Gosden and bred by Hascombe and Valiant Stud, the four-year-old gelding Courage Mon Ami emerged victorious in a thrilling two-and-a-half mile contest at the Royal Ascot ...
Next week, Jimmy Jerkens, the New Yorker, will embark on his first training stint in Saudi Arabia, taking the reins for the esteemed HRH Prince Faisal bin Khaled bin Abdulaziz, the leading owner of 2022. Under the banner of the 'Red Stable', Jerkens will be entrusted with the training of some of the finest horses in the jurisdiction. Jerkens boasts of a remarkable track record with two ...
FIRST FEMALE Her trousers were emblazoned for all to see as she rode home her mount and in doing so she made history. Amal bint Faisal made history on Friday night becoming the first female jockey to race under rules in Saudi Arabia. Aboard Saanehah she finished fourth but in doing so she rang in the milestone at King Abdulaziz Racecourse in Riyadh, as the first licensed Saudi Arabian female to ...
“He has been a very consistent horse at this level and hopefully he can continue to do so,” racing manager of Shadwell, Angus Gold, speaks highly of Mostahdaf. The son of Frankel showed his class once again winning the Neom Turf Cup convincingly for trainers John & Thady Gosden. The George Boughey trained Missed the Cut was short favourite pre-race but Mostahdaf blew away the field winning by ...
For the second year in a row the Longines Red Sea Turf has been captured by the winners in the silks of Shadai Race Horse Co Ltd. This year it was Japanese stayer Silver Sonic with Australian hoop Damian Lane piloting home earning a comfortable victory. Getting out from the gates the eye-catching grey homebred son of Orfevre settled in the perfect position behind a lead set by returning star ...
Frankie Dettori’s farewell to Saudi came with a clinical Group Three victory onboard Elite Power in the Riyadh Dirt Sprint. Juddmonte’s five-year-old was in a class of his own winning by over three lengths for trainer William Mott. In his last season in the saddle after a year that has seen him become one of the greatest to ever ride and taking wins across the globe this was the victory he ...
Havnameltdown came to Saudi to take out the Derby for trainer Bob Baffert and before gates open firmed up as odds on favourite. However breaking hearts on the line was the locally-trained colt Commissioner King to applauds from the crowd and getting the job done. It was an absolute thriller in the Group Three Saudi Derby presented by Boutique Group, as the Commissioner x Ek Haseena product left ...
Yoshito Yahagi brought his stayer Panthalassa from the land of the rising sun with the mission of taking out the world’s most valuable race, the $20 million Saudi Cup. The Lord Kanaloa x Miss Pemberley entire led the entire trip under jockey Yutaka Yoshida leaving Bob Baffert’s Country Grammer relegated to second place for a second consecutive year. In four runnings of the Saudi Cup the title ...
The first race on an eight race card kicks off in two hours and the preview for each race on this Saudi Cup card is as follows. Race 1 – Jockey Club Local Handicap presented by the MOC Albathaly for trainer Fahad Saad in this one. He won four straight before heading for a spell which has now been for 735 days. Has won first up and will appreciate being fresh. Race 2 Group One Obaiya Arabian ...
