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DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP Saturday, August 6, 2011 MEDIA GUIDE INDEX 3 THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 4 ORDER OF RUNNING & ADMISSION DETAILS 5 TIMETABLE OF EVENTS, FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT, TEAM ANTHEMS AND CHEERLEADERS 6 POST-RACING CONCERT – “HERE AND NOW” THE VERY BEST OF THE 1980s THE MANDARIN ORIENTAL LONDON – OFFICIAL DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP HOTEL 7 THE PRIZES 8 “BEST DAY’S RACING FOR OWNERS”, DETAILS OF RESERVES, LADBROKES 9 DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP RULES, DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 'DRAW' PROCEDURE 10 – 13 PROFILES OF PARTICIPATING JOCKEYS 14 PAST WINNERS OF THE “SILVER SADDLE” FOR LEADING JOCKEY AT THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 15 REMEMBERING SHERGAR 16 ABOUT DUBAI DUTY FREE – DUBAI DUTY FREE CONTINUES TO LEAD THE FIELD 17 NEW DESIGNATIONS AT DUBAI DUTY FREE 18 – 35 PAST RESULTS AT THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 36 KEY ASCOT CONTACTS 2 THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is the world’s premier international jockeys’ team competition. Three world-class riders will represent each of Great Britain (GBR), Ireland (IRE), Europe (EUR) and the Rest of the World (ROW). • The six races are limited to 10 runners with either two or three horses racing for each team (this will balance itself out over the course of the afternoon), and points are awarded on a 15, 10, 7, 5, 3 basis to the first five horses home (non runners score 4 points). Subject to full fields, each jockey has five rides and the team with the highest total after the sixth race lifts the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. • All six races are handicaps and all will be run with identical prize money - £30,000 per race. • Owners have a fantastic opportunity on Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Day - there are no entry fees for the races, there is prize money down to last place (with reserves that miss out on a run paid £500 travel money) and there is complimentary hospitality throughout the day. • Dubai Duty Free has been associated with the Shergar Cup since its inception, initially as team sponsor of the Rest of the World team and as a race sponsor. In 2006, the company became title sponsor of the whole event for the first time. • Captain for the GBR Team is reigning British champion jockey Paul Hanagan , who will be making his Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup debut. He will be joined by Hayley Turner , riding in her fifth Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup and only the second female jockey to ride a Group One winner in Britain, following her success on Dream Ahead in the Darley July Cup at Newmarket last month. The third member of the GBR team is Ascot-born Jim Crowley , riding in his second Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup and triumphant at this year’s Royal Ascot in the Group One King’s Stand Stakes on Prohibit. • Captain for the IRE Team is Richard Hughes , twice a winner of the Silver Saddle at the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. Hughes will ride alongside last year’s Silver Saddle victor Fran Berry , who is among a select group of jockeys to partner winners at both the Cheltenham Festival and Royal Ascot, as well as this season’s Irish Derby-winning jockey Colm O’Donoghue , who qualified for an invitation by winning that Dubai Duty Free-sponsored race. • Captain for the EUR Team is Olivier Peslier , fresh from riding his 100th Group One winner on the mighty mare Goldikova in Sunday’s Prix Rothschild at Deauville. Peslier will be joined by fellow Frenchman Christophe Lemaire , who has a formidable record in Group One contests on his visits to Britain. The third member of the EUR team is Italian ace Mirco Demuro , who will be riding in his third Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup and enjoyed the biggest success of his career in this year’s Dubai World Cup on Victoire Pisa. • Captain for the ROW Team is South African Doug Whyte , who was recently crowned champion jockey in Hong Kong for the 11th consecutive season. His teammates are legendary Japanese jockey Yutaka Take , who has rewritten the record books in his homeland, and Australian Hugh Bowman , who collected the Silver Saddle for leading rider in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup in 2007. • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is being run for the 11th time at Ascot. The Shergar Cup first took place at Ascot in 2000 when it was staged as an owners’ competition. It became a jockeys’ competition in 2001 and has gone from strength to strength ever since, attracting bumper crowds year after year. The one year it did not take place was 2005 when the racecourse was being redeveloped. • Following a successful introduction in 2010, the jockeys competing in the four-team Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup will again wear full team colours at this year’s renewal, although the design has been changed from last year. The three jockeys riding for the Great Britain team will wear red and white colours, the jockeys representing Ireland will wear green and white, the jockeys riding for Europe will wear blue and white and the Rest of the World team will wear black and white. Please see the jockeys’ biographies section (pages 10 -13) for further information on team colours. • Back by popular demand, a two-hour live 1980s concert will take place in the old paddock after racing. The line-up consists of Jason Donovan , Kid Creole and the Coconuts , Jimmy Somerville , Paul Young , Toyah , China Crisis , Odyssey , Altered Images , Brother Beyond and Visage . 3 DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP DAY ORDER OF RUNNING Saturday, August 6, 2011 Les Ambassadeurs Casino Shergar ATR 12.50 pm Cup Mile 4+ £30,000 Old Mile (Class 2) (Handicap) (81-100) Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Stayers ATR 1.25pm 4+ £30,000 Two Miles (Class 2) (Handicap) (81-100) CH4/ Barclays Shergar Cup Dash (Class 2) 2.00pm 3+ £30,000 Five Furlongs ATR (Handicap) (86-105) CH4/ Titanic Belfast Shergar Cup Classic One Mile & 2.30 pm 3 £30,000 ATR (Class 2) (Handicap) (76-95) Four Furlongs Michael Page International Shergar CH4/ One Mile & 3.00 pm Cup Challenge 4+ £30,000 ATR Four Furlongs (Class 2) (Handicap) (76-95) CH4/ Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Sprint 3 3.35 pm £30,000 Six Furlongs ATR (Class 2) (Handicap) (81-100) There will be two Pony Races following the Dubai Duty Free Shargar Cup: 4.10pm Charles Owen Pony Race – Six Furlongs 4.30pm Charles Owen Pony Race – One Mile ADMISSION DETAILS Admission prices are as follows: Premier Admission £40 SOLD OUT General Admission £26 Free admission for accompanied children aged 17 and under. Latest admission is 3.00pm. To purchase tickets, visit www.ascot.co.uk or call Ascot’s booking line on 0870 727 1234. 4 TIMETABLE OF EVENTS - Gates open 11.00am - Opening ceremony 12.20pm - First race 12.50pm - Last race 3.35pm - Closing ceremony 3.45pm - Pony Racing Starts 4.10pm - Pony Racing Ends 4.30pm - “80s” concert commences in the Old Paddock 5.15pm - “80s” concert finishes 8.15pm FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT This year’s Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup will feature more free family entertainment than ever before, with children particularly well catered for. There will be an array of activities to keep the whole family entertained from fairground rides to urban sport displays including BMX, inline skating and workshops where you have the chance to have a go. To mark Ascot Racecourse’s 300th anniversary, the Colts & Fillies children’s club will be burying a time capsule in the Parade Ring and releasing 300 celebratory balloons after racing. TEAM ANTHEMS AND CHEERLEADERS For the third time at the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup, each of the four teams will have a team anthem. If a Great Britain-ridden horse wins a race, Kasbian’s ‘Fire’ will be played; if there’s an Irish-ridden winner, U2’s ‘Elevation’ will be played; if a European-ridden horse wins, ‘Fascination’ by Alphabeat will be played; and a winner for the Rest of the World team will be greeted by ‘I Gotta Feeling’ by The Black Eyed Peas. Eight cheerleaders will perform a routine at the Opening Ceremony and then help celebrate each team’s victory by dancing to a short section of their anthem in the Parade Ring after every race. Once racing has concluded and the overall winner has been revealed, they will dance the routine in full. 5 POST RACING CONCERT – “HERE & NOW” THE VERY BEST OF THE 1980S Racegoers can look forward to another toe-tapping nostalgia trip following Saturday’s tremendous card when, for the fourth successive year, “Here & Now” - the Very Best of the 1980s will play a two-hour concert. Jason Donovan sprang to fame during the 1980s as Scott Robinson in Australian soap Neighbours before hitting the UK charts at the end of that decade with a string of hits written and produced by the mega pop moguls of the time, Stock, Aitken and Waterman. His debut single Nothing Can Divide Us reached number five in the UK in 1988 and the follow-up proved a huge success. Paired with Neighbours co-star and sweetheart Kylie Minogue, he enjoyed his initial chart-topping hit with Especially For You. That was the first of three number one hits in a row as he topped the pops in 1989 with Too Many Broken Hearts and Sealed With A Kiss . In 1991 he took the lead of Joseph in the West End restaging of Joseph And His Technicolour Dreamcoat and the show gave him a third solo number one hit, Any Dream Will Do.