23 September 2015, Newmarket, UK ~ Entries are up for the 25 September, SHADWELL ARABIAN DERBY Group 1 PA – 4 yrs only for one mile 2Furlongs Preview: A strong hand here for retiring Champion Trainer Gill Duffield. She has never won this race so it would be apt if one of her final runners in…
World Equestrian Events
FEI Tribunal Makes Decision on Salahdin Du Lauragais case
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Jaume Punti Dachs rides Ajayeb to win FEI European Endurance Championship
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Russia’s Tersk Stud Open House 2015
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HH Sheikh Mansoor Global Arabian Horse Racing Festival Adds $100,000 US Race at Santa Anita
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HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival Partners Italian Endurance
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International Federation of Horse Racing Academies Comes Together in Abu Dhabi
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USEF Warns Against the Use of Prohibited Substance Phenibut
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FEI Secretary General Provisionally Suspends UAE Vet as FEI Official
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HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival Breaks New Ground with Race in the Tatarstan Republic
Eight horses line up for HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship race in Kazan on Sunday29 August 2015, Russia ~ The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival breaks new ground on Sunday, 30 August, when eight amateur jockeys line up for the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint…
Meg Sleeper Places First in North American Endurance Team Challenge
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HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship (IFAHR) Sandown Park
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A Conversation with French Bloodstock Agent, Jean-Pierre Deroubaix
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400km Shahzada Memorial Endurance Test Heads to the Mountains in Australia
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Two International Arabian Races Brings Top Talent to Istanbul
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Ameretto wins Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup European Triple Crown
Canadian Apprentice wins HH Sheikh Fatima bint Mubarak race in Poland
26 August 2015, Warsaw, Poland ~ Ameretto proved his class once again as one of the top Purebred Arabian horses racing in Europe winning the Polish leg of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s Group 3 Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup and with it the European Triple Crown for the fourth year in a row.
Ameretto, the 9-year-old son of Amer, was beaten to second spot by Lahoob in Duindigt, and had to win on Sunday to claim the European Triple Crown and the bonus of €50,000. The first leg winner Al Mouwaffak in Toulouse and Lahoob were not running in this final leg and Ameretto’s task was certain.
With Italian Mauro Manueddu on board, Ameretto showed what a great champion he is as he came up with his traditional stretch run to win the 2,600-metre race at the Sluzewiec Racetrack in Warsaw on 23 August. Ussam de Carrere, ridden by V. Popov took second place while Alladyn under S. Mazur, finished third. The winner covered the 2600-metre distance in three minutes.
“Ameretto is a wonderful horse. He was going well and responded keenly when I asked him the question in the home straight,” said winning jockey Manueddu.
Trainer Gunter Richter said “Last year we decided to retire him to stud, but he continued to win and the connections felt he should stay in competition.”
Ameretto will now be retired to stud. The owners are looking forward to his first foals in 2016.
In the Festival’s second race of the day, Canadian apprentice jockey Brandon Duchaine brought Kasir Al Khalediah home in the sixth round of the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship.
The 23-year-old Canadian apprentice jockey said he was over the moon after securing a berth in a dream final of the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice Championship in Abu Dhabi.
“I think I owe it to a lucky draw which made me the ride on such a high-class horse,” he said. “The instructions were to keep Kasir Al Khalediah behind the early pace and to let him run in the home straight, but I was truly astonished with the smooth progress which he made to hit the front and sprint home unchallenged,” Duchaine said.
The winner covered the mile’s distance in 1:50:22 seconds to win by four lengths. English rider Sophie Killoran finished second onboard Sirego and behind them came Fucksuss under the South African apprentice Collen Storey.
The races were attended by Jansuz Piechocinski, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, along with UAE Ambassador to Poland Dr. Yousif Eisa Hassan Eisa Al Sabri, and Ms Lara Sawaya, Executive Director of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival, Chairperson of the Int’l Federation of Horse Racing Academies (IFHRA) and Chairperson of Ladies & Apprentice Racing Committees (IFAHR), sports officials and a large number of racing fans.
The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival is sustained by the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority and coordinated by Abu Dhabi Sports Council in cooperation with Emirates Racing Authority, IFAHR, Emirates Arabian Horse Society, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Authority of Youth and Sports Welfare with The National Archives as the official partner and Emirates airline as the official carriers and sponsored by Invest AD, National Feed and Flour Production and Marketing Co. LLC, Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (ADNEC), Al Awani General Enterprises, Kabale, Al Wathba Centre, the UAE’s General Women’s Union, The Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, the HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies Sports Academy, Abu Dhabi International Hunting and Equestrian Exhibition 2015, Bloom, Rise General Trading Co. LLC, Petromal, Hayatna, Dr. Nader Saab Switzerland, Al Wathba Center, Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club, Eastern Mangroves Suites-Abu Dhabi by Jannah, Yas Channel, Omeir Travels, Racing Post and Laboratories Fadia Karam Cosmetics.
– end report by Satya
F Sixteen and Jewell AA Win At Delaware Park
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Shadwell Sponsors UK Arabian Derby at Newmarket
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Belgiums Wellington Race Course Welcomes Arabian Racing Monday 17 August
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