Sahabba wins Zayed Cup 18 August 2015, Ostend, Belgium ~ The Wellington race track in Ostend, Belgium, on Monday, 17 August, hosted a great race meeting as Sahabba was the spot on winner in the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Group 3) while Briton Page Fuller clinched a berth in the HH Sheikha…
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O’Shea and O’Neill Shine for Ireland in The Netherlands
Lahoob stuns Ameretto to win Sheikh Zayed Cup29 June 2015, The Netherlands ~ Four-time UAE jockey’s champion Tadhg O’Shea sizzled on the Duindigt racecourse in The Hague in as he registered a double while Lisa O’Neill chipped in for Ireland with her win in the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing…
Nobas D.A leads 1-2 for trainer Deckers in Belgian Wathba Stud Farm Cup
14 June 2015, Belgium ~ Nobas D.A ridden by Bart de Koninck won the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival‘s Wathba Stud Farm Spring Cup, run on 10 June at the Hippodrome de Wallonie in Ghlin, Belgium. The 1500-metre race which attracted nine runners was the second of…
Sha’hir wins Wathba Cup in La Teste, France
6 May 2015, France ~ The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival staged the second race of the four Wathba Stud Farm Cup (Prix Ba Toustem) races to be held in France in 2015 at the Hippodrome La Teste De Buch on 3 June. Sha’hir, trained by Francis-Henry Graffard…
Ladies in Racing Star at World Arabian Horse Racing Conference 2015
30 May 2015, Warsaw, Poland ~ With interesting sessions on Rules, Conditions and Regulations and Media, PR & Communication, the highlight of the three sessions held on Friday were ladies involved in various aspects of Arabian racing. This was the second day of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s…
Es Mi Cielo and Ms Dixie Highlight Colorado Arabian Horse Racing
Es Mi Cielo dominated Sunday’s six-furlong Wathba Stud Farm Cup at Arapahoe Park25 May 2015, Aurora, Colorado, USA ~ Es Mi Cielo’s second victory in one week in the His Highness Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival and Ms Dixie’s successful Colorado homecoming highlighted the Arabian action on a busy…
Netherlands Gives Second Wathba Cup Win to Bachair Qardabiyah
25 May 2015, Duindigt, The Netherlands ~ Bachair Qardabiyah stormed to her second successive win in the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s Wathba Stud Farm Cup race series at the Duindigt race course in The Netherlands on Sunday, 24 May. The four-year-old Dormane filly owned by Waleed Ben Zaied had kick…
Australian Thompson Wins First Arabian Flat Race at Kentucky Horse Park
HH Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship, Kentucky, USA17 May 2015, Lexington, Kentucky, USA ~ The 2015 HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Apprentice World Championship race series got off to a brilliant start at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington on Sunday with 18-year-old Australian Ben Thompson hogging the limelight. After two days of…
Bahrain joins HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival With Ladies Competitions
12 March 2015, Manama, Bahrain ~ The Kingdom of Bahrain is set to become the latest country to host a round of the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak World Ladies Championship (IFAHR) when 10 lady jockeys line-up at the starter’s gate at the…
Murphy Strikes in Wathba Stud Farm Cup Win in Abu Dhabi
8 March 2015, Abu Dhabi ~British apprentice champion jockey Oisin Murphy teamed up with trainer Ahmed Al Mehairbi to steer AK Adour (Akbar (FR) x Petite Class (FR) by Barour De Cardonne) home in the 14th and penultimate round of the Wathba Stud Farm Cup For Private Owners Only at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club…
HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival’s Triple Jewel Kicks off in Houston
Sh Zayed, Fatima Cup races attract strong fields for Saturday’s races5 March 2015 ~ The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival kick starts its campaign in the US with two quality races at the Sam Houston Race Park in Houston, Texas, on Saturday 7 February, that will see…
Abu Dhabi IFHRA Meeting discusses Key issues
Sub Committees Formed13 February 2015 ~ As many as 20 representatives from different parts of the world attended the Executive Committee meeting of the newly-formed International Federation of Horse Racing Academies (IFHRA) on Thursday, February 12, 2015, in Abu Dhabi. Earlier in the day, IFHRA became fully official when Mr. Khalid Hussain from the UAE’s…
HH President’s Cup CEI 3*160km Endurance Takes Off on Saturday in Abu Dhabi
180 riders contest for awards including 11 4WD vehicles12 February 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE ~ Endurance riders from around the world will battle for top honors in the prestigious His Highness The President of the United Arab Emirates Endurance Cup, a 160-km event organized by the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse…
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Listed Cup Races at St. Moritz
Last year’s winner Alibaba Del Sol starts favorite in 9-horse field7 February 2015, St. Moritz ~ Alibaba Del Sol under jockey Daniel Porcu will be looking to win the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Listed Cup for the second year in…
Al Mazroui rides Splendacrest Adage to Narrow Win
Saif Ahmed al Mazroui rides Splendacrest Adage to win 7 January 2015, Abu Dhabi ~ Saif Ahmed Al Mazrou on the Australian-bred Splendacrest Adage from MRM Stables staved off a double challenge to win the Saturday 7 January HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s endurance ride at the Emirates International Endurance…
Strong fields for Melbourne Arabian races on Monday 26 January
Last year’s winners back for Australia’s HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival races24 January 2015, Melbourne, Australia ~ The wait for the opening day of the 2015 racing season at Sportingbet Park, Sandown in Melbourne, has been highly anticipated. The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival, which is being staged by NARA…
Dutch Pro Pietrasiewicz Crowned World Ladies Champion
10 November 2014, Abu Dhabi ~ Watched by an enthusiastic international crowd, the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival‘s Championship races showed the quality of Champion riders and of UAE trained horses at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club on 9 November 2014. HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies’ (IFAHR) World Championship…
Apprentice Jockeys Get Career Experience From Experts at Conference
8 November, 2014, Abu Dhabi ~ Some interesting facts and finer details concerned with shaping professional jockeys came to the fore on the opening day of the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak International Conference of Education and Training which got underway at the Anantara Hotel in Abu Dhabi on Friday morning (7 November). HE Aref Al…
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…
Triple Jewel and Triple Crown Championships light American and European Arabian races nights in 2015
11 September 2014, Abu Dhabi ~ The Arabian horse racing world has received another boost from the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival with the introduction of a bonus for the American Triple Jewel and the upgrade of the prize money of the European Triple Crown during the 2015…
Ameretto Claims Third European Racing Award in Poland
24 August, 2014, Poland ~ Ameretto (Amer), ridden by M Manueddu, proved his brilliance as Europe’s Best Purebred Arabian Horse with a superb win in the 11th round of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup Group-3 (PA) to claim the European Racing Award for the third time at the Służewiec Horse Race Track…
Copenhagen Back with Arabian Racing
2 July, 2014, Denmark ~ After several years of absence from the world map of Arabian racing Denmark is back staging four races at the main track of Klampenborg just outside Copenhagen. Generously sponsored by the Qatar North European Arabian Racing program and the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing…
Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival Racing at Arapahoe Park
2 July, 2014, Aurora, Colorado ~ July 5 will see the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival at Arapahoe Park. The Aurora, Colorado, track will host the Wathba Stud Farm Cup as part of the Global Festival, while other of Arapahoe Park’s top Arabians will travel to California to…
Impressive Debut for HH Skeikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Festival in Portugal
In endurance news from Portugal it was Aurora Torres Villalon on board Nabuco who won the CEI ** while Joao Augustu Moura astride Repoker took the CEN*April 28, 2014, Fronteira, Portugal ~ UAE riders were much in contention at the Portuguese National Championship sponsored by HH Sheikh Monsoor bin Zayed Equestrian Festival, but the Spanish…
Fronteira Kicks off Sheikh Mansoor Festival European Endurance Season
April 25, 2014, Fronteira, Portugal ~ All arrangements are well in place for the kickoff of the Portuguese National Endurance Championships with international riders vying for honors in the seniors and juniors categories at the border riding centre in Fronteira, Portugal, over the weekend of April 26 and 27. The race over 120 km scheduled for…
Arabian Racing Dates Increase in the UK for 2014
Increased support of HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival in the UK for 2014March 25, 2014, UK ~ The Arabian Racing Organization (ARO) is delighted to announce the increased support of HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival in the UK for 2014. ARO…
US Jockeys Dominate Arabian Races at Sam Houston Park
March 8, 2014, Sam Houston Park, Houston, Texas ~ Defying heavy rain showers American lady jockey Sandee D. Martin partnered RB Burn Baby Burn to glory in the fourth round of the $41,000 HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak World Ladies Championship (IFAHR) on Saturday, March 8, while Grilla, ridden by David Cabrera, won the $47,000…
Caulfield Racecourse looks forward to Arabian Racing
January 31, 2014, Melbourne ~ A small but classy field of seven runners have been declared to kick off the new season’s curtain raiser of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup, and eight lady jockeys will battle to the wire in the second round of the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies World…
Stage set for the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Championship in Australia
January 28, 2014, Abu Dhabi ~ UAE upcoming lady jockey Anoud Al Suwaidi will partner Coolinda Park Dance With Me in the second round of the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies World Championship at Caulfield Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday, February 1. The Caulfield Race Day will include both races, the Sheikh Zayed Bin…
Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club Race Card November 10
November 7, 2013, Abu Dhabi ~ Sunday’s six races have been drawn…and include the four races of the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nayhan Festival: the Wathba Stud Farm Cup the Racecourse, Newbury (For Local Owners), the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup, HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak EARS Apprentice Jockey Race, and…
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Zayed Cup, Fatima World Championship races at Barretts Racing Fairplex
September 12, 2013, Los Angeles, CA. ~ First-ever ladies race in Los Angeles The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival makes its presence felt in the American west coast with two of its prestigious races to be run at Barretts Racing at Fairplex in Pomona, Los Angeles, on…
Favourite Ameretto eyes bonus fund in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Group 3) in Warsaw
August 24, 2013, Warsaw ~ Last year’s HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies Championship race winner Celtik aims to score again Ameretto, last year’s (2012) winner here at the Sluzewiec race course, has once again been in terrific form this year and will be the horse to beat in Sunday’s (August 25) Sheikh Zayed bin…