THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP Ascot, Saturday, August 6, 2016 MEDIA GUIDE 1 INDEX 3 The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup 4 Order of Running & Admission Details 5 Timetable of Events 6 The Prizes 7 Best Day’s Racing for Owners & Reserves Winning Post – The Official Bookmaker New totepool Team Bet Launched 8 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Rules 9 Great Britain & Ireland Team 1o Europe Team 11 The Girls Team 12 Rest Of The World Team 13-14 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Previous Results at Ascot 15-16 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Leading Jockeys & Jockey Records 17 Remembering Shergar 18 A Global Leader in Airport Retailing 19 Ascot Media Contacts 2 THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is the world’s premier jockeys’ competition, a unique event where three top riders in each of four teams - Great Britain & Ireland, Europe, the Rest of the World and The Girls - battle against each other in a thrilling six-race showdown. • The Girls team is captained Canada’s Emma-Jayne Wilson, a Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup regular who captained The Girls to an historic win in 2015. She is joined by Hayley Turner, who has c0me out of retirement to ride at the event for the 10th time and Josephine Gordon, who is making her Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup debut. • Brazilian-born Silvestre De Sousa, the reigning Stobart Champion Jockey in Britain, leads the Rest Of The World team, which also features leading Japanese rider Kenichi Ikezoe and South African ace Gavin Lerena. All three are making their debuts at the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. • Team Europe is captained by Frankie Dettori, who will be making his 10th appearance at the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup. The Italian, who is rapidly approaching 3,000 winners in the UK, is joined by two of France’s leading jockeys in Pierre- Charles Boudot and Thierry Jarnet, who are both riding in the competition for the first time. • Joe Fanning, long-associated with the Mark Johnston stable, captains the Great Britain & Ireland team which also consists of Martin Harley, who landed the 2015 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot on Goldream and Oisin Murphy, who is retained rider for Qatar Racing Limited. They are participating in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup for the first time. • 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. • The jockey amassing the most individual points will take home an additional £3,000 plus the Alistair Haggis “Silver Saddle” trophy. • All six races are handicaps and all will be run with identical prize money - £45,000 per race. • There are two reserves per race, who can be utilised up to 45 minutes before each contest is run. • 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 appearance 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 for the first time and since 2014 has sponsored the entire event. • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is being run for the 16th time at Ascot. The Shergar Cup first took place at Ascot in 2000 as a jockeys’ competition. It has gone from strength to strength ever since, attracting bumper crowds year after year. It did not take place in 2005 when the racecourse was being redeveloped. • The jockeys competing in the four-team Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup will again wear full team colours at this year’s renewal. Please see the jockeys’ biographies section (pages 9-12) for further information about this year’s team colours. • Cheerleaders will welcome the winning rider back after each race and be part of the opening and closing ceremonies. • Each team will have an anthem for the day, played whenever they have a winner - GB&I: The Boys Are Back in Town; ROW: Rockin All Over The World; GIRLS: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves; EUR: Ca Plane Pour Moi. • The first two races on Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup day will be broadcast on More4, with the remaining four contests shown on Channel 4, making it the only raceday outside of Royal Ascot to be covered in its entirety by the broadcaster. • Away from the track, the racing will be followed by the ever-popular Ascot Live - a free concert for racegoers featuring Ronan Keating, Gabrielle, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Lawson and the Music Of Queen. King Edward VII Enclosure ticket holders enjoy priority access to the front section by the stage. There will also be a fairground (included in the price of a ticket) on the Bandstand Lawns, Champagne and cocktail bars and a wide range of restaurants to visit before the music commences. 3 ORDER OF RUNNING Ascot, Saturday, August 6, 2016 The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup The Dubai Duty Free More4 1.15 pm Shergar Cup Dash Stakes 3+ £45,000 Five furlongs (Handicap) (Class 2)(86-105) The Dubai Duty Free About two More4 1.45 pm Shergar Cup Stayers 4+ £45,000 miles (Handicap) (Class 2)(81-100) The Dubai Duty Free One mile CH4 2.20 pm Shergar Cup Challenge 4+ £45,000 about four (Handicap) (Class 3)(76-95) furlongs The Dubai Duty Free CH4 2.55 pm Shergar Cup Mile 4+ £45,000 Old mile (Handicap) (Class 2)(81-100) The Dubai Duty Free One mile CH4 3.30 pm Shergar Cup Classic 3 £45,000 about four (Handicap) (Class 3)(76-95) furlongs The Dubai Duty Free CH4 4.05 pm Shergar Cup Sprint 3 £45,000 Six furlongs (Handicap) (Class 2)(81-100) ADMISSION DETAILS Admission prices on the day are as follows: King Edward VII Enclosure SOLD OUT Queen Anne Enclosure £30 in advance or £35 on the day Free admission for accompanied children aged 18 and under. To purchase tickets, visit www.ascot.co.uk or call Ascot’s booking line on 0844 346 3000. 4 TIMETABLE OF EVENTS RACEDAY PROGRAMME 11:00am Gates Open 12:15pm Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Opening Ceremony 1.15pm Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup First Race 4:05pm Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Last Race 4.10pm Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Closing Ceremony 4:30pm Concert Starts (subject to change) 9:00pm Concert Finishes (subject to change) Times may be subject to change CONCERT SCHEDULE (TIMINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE ON THE DAY) 4:30pm Lawson Lawson are an English pop rock band, consisting of Andy Brown, Ryan Fletcher, Joel Peat and Adam Pitts. The band's debut album, Chapman Square, was released in October, 2012 and reached number three on the UK Albums Chart. To date, Lawson have achieved seven UK top 20 hit singles. 5:20pm Gabrielle Gabrielle is a multi-platinum selling, BRIT Award winning English singer and songwriter with hits such as Rise, Sunshine and Out Of Reach. Her debut single Dreams topped the UK Singles Chart in 1993. Other notable singles include Going Nowhere, Give Me a Little More Time and Walk On By. Gabrielle's first two studio albums were inspired by Marvin Gaye, Barry White and Bobby Womack. 6:05pm Fun Lovin' Criminals The Fun Lovin’ Criminals are still the world’s finest and only purveyors of cinematic hip hop, rock N roll, blues-jaz and latino soul vibes. Through the mid-late 90s they chronicled life in their native New York City while bending the global ear to the sonic possibilities of exuberant hip-hop gangster-rock merged with lounge music and funk. 7:05pm Ronan Keating Since joining Boyzone at the age of 16, Ronan Keating has enjoyed major success in the music industry. His list of achievements is endless, with 40 million album sales with Boyzone, 22 million copies sold of nine solo albums, together with 14 solo Number One singles. Right now, Keating is all about pushing on with a bold new chapter in a two-decade-plus career. 8:20pm The Music of Queen - A Rock and Symphonic Spectacular! With over 300 million albums sold worldwide, Queen are one of a select few truly iconic British bands that can claim to be a supergroup. With over four decades of music and 18 number one albums to their names, they are recognised as one of the most influential rock bands of all times. 2008 saw the launch of a new concert celebrating the music of Queen, which gave fans the opportunity of hearing these classic songs as never before. The Music Of Queen – A RockPhonic show, features full rock band and stars from the West End smash hit musical We Will Rock You, performing epic arrangements of Queen’s music. Featuring all of Queen’s classic hits including: A Kind Of Magic, Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga, We Are The Champions, Somebody To Love, Who Wants To Live Forever, Killer Queen, Don’t Stop Me Now, Fat Bottomed Girls, I Want It All, and many more.