18 September 2014, UK ~ Top European trainers/owners will gather in Newmarket for the 25 September running of the Group 1 Qatar Racing & Equestrian Club UK Arabian Derby. The ten runner field has been supplemented by an additional four from Belgium, France and the UK to vie for the £50,000 contest at Newmarket Racecourse. French trainer Damian…
Los Alamitos Fields Top Arabian Racers
19, September 2014, Los Alamitos, California ~ The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival adds $47,000 as prize money in support of purebred Arabian racing at California’s Los Alamitos race track with the 20 September, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup. MS Dixie, who set the same course ablaze with a record-breaking…
Hannah Selleck proud to be JustWorld Celebrity Ambassadors
18 September 2014, Caen, France ~ Four years in the making, the 2014 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ in Normandy came to a close on September 7, 2014. The fifteen-day event brought top competitors from more than 76 countries and attracted a crowd of over 565,000 spectators. As one of only four charities chosen, JustWorld International…
Prix Dragon Demonstrates Dahor de Brugère is Back
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14 September 2014, Longchamp, France ~ The Qatar Cup – Prix Dragon (Gr2 PA), a trial race for the Qatar Arabian World Cup (Gr1), gave Dahor de Brugère (Dahess x Dormadora) a look at the open track ahead. Under jockey JB Eyquem, the entry by Al Shaqab held off all attacks in the straight, notably to win the large piece of the…
Al Atique Gains First Group 1 PA at Doncaster
15 September 2014, UK ~ In front of a crowd of over 30,000, AL ATIQUE (Amer x Somra) gained his first Group 1 PA victory for his owner breeder HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Thani. Held over a mile on Doncaster’s historic Town Moor racecourse, the £150,000 race is the most valuable in the UK…