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 6-year-old gelding by Montjeu, Montpellier upset the featured third race on Friday’s card at Jebel Ali, defeating a balanced field of 14 over 1,200 meters. Off a rating of 88, Montpellier won the open conditions affair, sponsored by Shadwell, by 1.5 lengths over Doug Watson trainees Green Coast and Bounty Quest. The victory was [...]
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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Also tagged Barbecue Eddie, Doug Watson, Dubai International Racing Carnival, Escape Route, Gayego, Godolphin Mile, Green Coast, Mahab Al Shimaal, Satish Seemar, Terrific Challenge, Two Step Salsa
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Sarah Tregoning from The National profiles the continuing growth of Ahmed Ajtebi and his thanksgiving for one particularly famous Italian jockey. Click HERE for the full story. Racing resumes in the Emirates on Friday, December 4 at Jebel Ali.
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 2008 Dubai Kahayla Classic (G1) winner, sidelined since last fall with a bone chip, returned to racing on Sunday in the 70,000 AED National Day Cup prep for purebred Arabians and did not disappoint, defeating Shadiyda by 1.5 lengths over eight furlongs at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club. Trainer Eric Lemartinel prepared both Arabians [...]
Friday’s feature at Jebel Ali, the AED 100,000 Derrinstown Stud over 1,600 meters went the way of the Dhurba Selvaratnam trainee, Meeriss, defeating a quality field of UAE-based runners by 4.5 lengths. A 4-year-old gelding by Dubai Destination, Meeriss made gradual progress through the field of 11 after settling in the rear and pulled well [...]
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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Also tagged Bur Dubai, Chief Bearhart, Clasp, Doug Watson, Dubai International Racing Carnival, Fares, Godolphin, Ibn Al Nafis, Igor Protti, Malih Al Basti, Plavius, Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed Al Maktoum
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