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Hesh. Saeed Bin Mohd Al Maktoum THE VOICE OF HORSE RACING IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 12 February 2015 ISSUE 553 Dhs 5 MMubtaahijubtaahij - ccanan hehe mmakeake itit tthreehree UUAEAE wwins?ins? Previews Meydan (Thu) Meydan (Sat) Abu Dhabi (Sun) Cards Page 36/43 Page 45/51 Page 52/57 Horse of the Year Invasor By Candy Stripes Brilliant G1 SW Classic Winner Daaher Jazil By Awesome Again By Seeking the Gold Graded Stakes Winner Sire of 16% Stakes Horses Mustanfar Intidab By Unbridled By Phone Trick G1 Millionaire, Winner of Albertus Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile Maximus By Albert the Great Kent Barnes, Stallion Manager 4600 Ft. Springs Road Inquiries to: (859) 224-4585 Lexington, KY 40513 www.shadwellfarm.com PHOTOS © EQUI-SPORT / ELLIOTT HESS / BARBARA D. LIVINGSTON 12 February 2015 3 It will be the end of an era BY DEREK THOMPSON HOSE of us in racing knew it would happen Contents sooner or later but when Tit came it was a shock! NEWS 3-4 Tony McCoy known POLO NEWS 7 universally by his initials ‘AP’ NICHOLAS GODFREY 9 rode his 200th winner of the HOWARD WRIGHT / ALASTAIR NICOLSON 11 season at Newbury on Saturday and then stunned the racing DEREK THOMPSON / JOHN BERRY 13 world by announcing he would TOM JENNINGS / PAT CUMMINGS 15 retire from race riding at the PHOTO GALLERY 16-17 end of the season. NEXT WEEK’S RACE CONDITIONS 19 The most successful jockey STATISTICS 21-23 in the history of National Hunt racing with over 4,000 winners AKHBAR AL KHAIL 24-27 to his credit will, in a couple QATAR NEWS 28-29 of months time when he rides REVIEWS / RESULTS in his last race, be crowned MEYDAN (THURSDAY) 30-33 Champion Jockey for the 20th JEBEL ALI (FRIDAY) 34-35 successive time. He has single handedly re- PREVIEWS / CARDS written racing’s riding records MEYDAN (THURSDAY) 36-37 with the fastest 1,000, 2,000, MEYDAN CARD/ANALYSIS 39-43 3,000 and 4,000 winners. MEYDAN (SATURDAY) 45 When you consider only Ruby EYDAN ARD NALYSIS 46-51 Walsh and Richard Johnson are M C /A the only other British or Irish ABU DHABI (SUNDAY) 52 based jockeys to have ridden over ABU DHABI CARD 53-57 2,000 winners, you realise just how incredibly brilliant McCoy is. Editorial I long ago used up all the superlatives in the dictionary drive for winner after winner that I have met plenty of top Editor/writer Mark Jackson to describe his race riding and set him apart from all the others. sportsmen and women in my I am fortunate to have been He has broken most of the time but never have I met one Art Director/Designer Eng. Mohamed Maher around to watch and admire this bones in his body and has lived so dedicated: indeed he only amazing man doing his stuff on a daily diet of virtually no seemed to take a day off when Sub-Designer Ismail KV day in and day out. food that kept his weight two he was injured. Nisar Shaikh No race or meeting was too stone less than it should be. The fact that he would ride small or too far away for him A daily red-hot bath every and win on horses that no one Graphic & Scanner Abdul Majeed to get there and he always put morning helped him sweat else could was a joy to watch Nadim Ahmed over 100,000 miles on his car off the extra few pounds from and without him National Hunt every year. his already lean body and yet racing will never be the same. Library Abdulla Khalifa It wasn’t the money because despite all this wasting, he Thanks ‘AP’ - it has been an K. Aboobacker somedays he would actually still had the strength to ride honour to watch and admire spend more in travelling sometimes six races a day and - and whatever you do in the Photographers K.P. Majeed expenses than he won in prize his strike rate was staggering - future, I wish you well because Abdul Razzak money but it was his amazing nearly 30% this season alone. you are a legend. Correspondents Dubai World Cup Carnival (2004-2014) Dubai World Cup Carnival (2004-2014) TRAINERS (Thoroughbreds only) JOCKEY (Thoroughbreds only) Overseas (2015 figures in red) (2015 figures in red) Derek Thomson Alastair Nicolson Howard Wright John Berry Saeed bin Suroor 176 (+9) Lanfranco Dettori 101 Pat Cummings Nicholas Godfrey Mike de Kock 134 (+4) Christophe Soumillon 51 (+3) Tom Jennings Bloodstock Beverley Townsend Doug Watson 44 (+2) Ted Durcan 47 Local Harry Tregoning Ali Rashid Al Raihe 39 (+1) Ryan Moore 43 Stephen Molyneux Mahmood Al Zarooni 37 Kevin Shea 40 Feedback Satish Seemar 25 (+3) Mickael Barzalona 39 (+2) English Editorial Herman Brown 20 Silvestre De Sousa 35 Tele.:+971- 4 342 9999 - Fax: +971- 4 342 2121 For Back Numbers, Subscriptions and Photography enquiries, Mazin Al Kurdi 19 Weichong Marwing 34 please contact: Essa Hassan Al Basher, Mobile: +971-50 452 6636 Ismail Mohammed 18 Richard Hills 33 P.O. Box 53300, Dubai, UAE. mail: [email protected] Al-Adiyat is published and printed Mubarak bin Shafya 18 Michael Kinane 27 by the Dubai Horse Racing Information Centre. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Dhruba Selvaratnam 17 John Murtagh 24 reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording Erwan Charpy 15 Richard Mullen 27 (+4) or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Opinions expressed in Al-Adiyat do not Musabah Al Muhairi 15 (+1) Royston Ffrench 24 (+1) necessarily reflect those of the publishers. 4 12 February 2015 NEWS 5 Minutes with Dane O’Neill Career Stats: Winner of (Group 2) 2013 Tripleprint What is your best memory as What race would you like to BY SAMANTHA KETTLE Group One Prix Maurice de Temple Stakes Class A a jockey? win that you have not yet Name: Dane O’Neill Gheest, 2000 ·£200,000 St (Group 2) 2003 Gardner Winning the Group 1 Prix won? Leger Yearling Stakes, 2004 Merchant Diadem Stakes Maurice de Gheest in France l’Arc de Triomphe Nationality: Irish Watership Down Stud Sales Class A (Group 2) 1999 Cork on Bold Edge shortly after Class B (Fillies) 2001 Al and Orrery Stakes Class A losing my claim. Somewhere you would like to Home base: Maktoum Challenge Round (Group 2) 1999 Nine Group travel to? Hungerford, United Kingdom 1 Presented By Longines Three wins. Are you from a racing Japan. background? Key Horses: Bold edge and My family has always been What is your favourite Amour Propre very interested in racing, they restaurant in Dubai? had a few jumpers and bred Caramel in DIFC. What is life like as Number a few. When I was young I two rider for Sheikh did a lot of showjumping and Do you have any pets? Hamdan Al Maktoum? pony racing so horses were Yes, three dogs and a budgie. It’s a great job with a lot of always at hand. nice horses to look forward Would you do a day hunting to that I usually pick up or What horses have made an in the UK? start off their careers on. impact on your career? Yes, I have done it before Bold Edge. I won on him with Adam Kirby and Eddie Have you enjoyed the last shortly after losing my claim Ahern. We did well to three winters you have survive but it’s great fun! spent here in Dubai? If you could ride any I love it here! The weather racehorse, past or present, A horse to follow on the dirt is the best part especially which one would it be? during the DWCC? when you could be riding at I won on Taghrooda in a Tamarkuz trained by Wolverhampton on a cold maiden. She was a very Musabah Al Muhairi. late evening. It makes you important horse to the team. realise how lucky you are to If there was any horse I A horse to follow on the turf be here. would have loved to have during the DWCC? ridden in bigger races it Almoonqith trained by Mike You work alongside Paul would have been her, she de Kock. Hanagan, describe your was a very straightforward relationship as a team. ride. Tell us something nobody We get on very well on and knows about you. off the track. Paul is a good Where is your favorite I am actually a very grumpy guy to deal with, he is solid racetrack? person underneath it all! and reliable, it’s a great team Newbury to be a part of. ERA NOTICE AL AIN RACECOURSE SUNDAY FEBRUARY 8, 2015 – MEETING RE-SCHEDULED The Al Ain race meeting scheduled for next Sunday February 8 will not run on that date and has been re-scheduled for Friday March 13, 2015 ERA NOTICE The Group 3 Jebel Ali Mile, cancelled two weeks ago, will now be run on Friday February 20, 2015 DERRINSTOWN STUD / &.-'"'%&' I]^ginnZVghd[]dghZbVch]^e! `cdlaZY\ZZmeZg^ZcXZ# 9Zgg^chidlcViI]^gin"lZ]VkZcZkZglVkZgZY[gdbdjg YZh^gZid\^kZWgZZYZghVXXZhhidhdbZd[i]ZWZhiWaddYa^cZh^c i]ZldgaYVi[ZZhl]^X]i]ZnXVcV[[dgYVcYi]^heda^Xn]VhhZgkZY Wdi]i]ZhijYVcYdjgXa^Zcih[dgdkZgi]gZZYZXVYZh# =ZgZ¼hidi]ZcZmi(%nZVgh DERRINSTOWN STUD: BVncddi]!8djcin@^aYVgZ!>gZaVcYT: (*(%&+'-+''-F: (*(%&+'-+,((E:^c[d5YZgg^chidlc"hijY#^ZW:YZgg^chidlc#Xdb 12 February 2015 7 POLO NEWS BY HARRY TREGONING British Polo Day returns to the UAE in March HIS year not only marks British Polo Day Global Series, Rover Trophy between the calendar, British Polo Day Dubai Polo finally take on the British the 20th anniversary of presented by Land Rover, on British Exiles and the home team falls the day before the 20th Exiles team.
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