Friday’s six race card at Jebel Ali is headlined by the third race, a Jebel Ali Stakes prep carrying a 120,000AED purse and drawing a relatively competitive and well-balanced field of 14. I am most interested in #11 Black Eagle who makes the fifth start of his career and the first in Dubai for trainer [...]
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The feature of Friday’s six race card at Jebel Ali is a thoroughbred handicap over 1,400 meters and has drawn a field of 11. Top-weighted is Doug Watson trainee Fares, a surprise winner at the 2009 Dubai International Racing Carnival, who was a dull seventh in a 1,600 meters affair over the course on November 5. [...]
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A full field of 16 are entered to face the starter in Friday’s third race at Jebel Ali, the 120,000 AED Shadwell conditions race over 1,200 meters on the dirt. Top rated is Doug Watson trainee, Green Coast, who last appeared when finishing eighth in the Godolphin Mile (G2) behind Two Step Salsa and Gayego. [...]
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Friday’s Shadwell Farm Conditions race, the feature at Jebel Ali, went the way of the Dhruba Selvaratnam trainee Otaared, making his first start since October 2008. It was one of only two races NOT won by Doug Watson. Click HERE as Sarah Tregoning from The National takes a look back at Friday’s card.
Entering Friday’s seven furlong, 120,000 AED feature at Jebel Ali, Doug Watson trainee Shopton Lane sits at top rating (after the defection of non-runner Masaalek). That top-rating might be more of a hindrance to those planning to back the son of Quiet American who was listless in two Dubai International Racing Carnival starts in 2009. Plavius [...]
The 100,000 AED feature on Friday’s card at Jebel Ali provides a field of eleven locally-based runners returning from their summer hibernation in a 1600 meters event, the third race on a six race card. Multiple 2009 Dubai International Racing Carnival graduates are amongst the lot, including Fares, a shocking winner back on January 29. [...]
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The 2009 UAE racing season opens this week with a triple-header led by racing at Jebel Ali on Friday, the return to racing at Sharjah on Saturday, and a meeting at Abu Dhabi on Sunday. Entries were released for the the meetings on Tuesday and there will be no action lacking at the three facilities. [...]
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The Dayton Daily News profiles Red Stables trainer Doug Watson who has long found success since moving from his childhood neighborhood in Ohio to the racing community in the US and then to Dubai. The former assistant to Kiaran McLaughlin has thrived in the Dubai climes. Watson, below (left) looks on prior to the 2009 [...]
Carrying just a 90 in the handicap ratings, Malih Al Basti’s Hammadi found the touch in a 16 horse field, winning the AED500,000 Jebel Ali Sprint on Friday. The son of Red Ransom led through the early stages and was headed by Frosty Secret before fighting back in the final strides, winning by a nose. [...]
Doug Watson trained my top choice, SHOPTON LANE, but much to his surprise, his other entrant, FARES, took the first race on Thursday night at odds of 60-1 on the international commingled tote. GRAND HOMBRE, whose last win came in the 2003 Pennsylvania Derby, finished second at 40-1. Erwan Charpy trainee RAGHEED took the second [...]