THE VOICE OF HORSE RACING IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 26 February 2015 www.aladiyat.ae ISSUE 555 Dhs 5 Can Safety Check into winner’s enclosure for third time at 2015 Carnival Safety Check – 1400m handicap Safety Check – Group 2 Al Fahidi Fort Classic generation seek further success Local Time – 2015 UAE 1000 Guineas heroine Mastermind – 2015 Meydan Classic Trial winner Previous Nad Al Sheba Trophy winners clash Ahzeemah (white cap) - 2013 Nad Al Sheba Trophy Cavalryman – 2014 Nad Al Sheba Trophy Previews Meydan (Thu) Meydan (Sat) Abu Dhabi (Sun) Cards Page 40/47 Page 40/47 Page 63/67 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 26 February 2015 3 MERICAN Doug Watson continues to enjoy a fantastic season and Awith three winners last weekend, Watson edges highlighted by a Meydan Carnival double on Thursday, leaves him Contents on 36 winners for the season. His closest pursuer, Musabah further ahead NEWS 3-15 Al Muhairi, saddled a brace, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al In the jockeys’ battle, Richard ENDURANCE 17 taking him to 34 and the race for the Maktoum maintaining a lead of Mullen continues to lead the way SHOWJUMPING NEWS 18 domestic trainers’ title is starting three over HH Sheikh Khaifa and has a healthy lead of eight. POLO NEWS 19 to look a two horse race with a bin Zayed Al Nahyan with 33 Mullen has partnered 38 winners, NICHOLAS GODFREY 21 gap back to Satish Seemar on 29 and 30 victors respectively. eight more than reigning champion and Salem Al Ketbi flying up the They have a healthy advantage Tadhg O’Shea who is on 30. HOWARD WRIGHT / ALASTAIR NICOLSON 23 ranks and now on 21 winners. over HE Sheikh Hamdan bin That is one more than both Pat DEREK THOMPSON / JOHN BERRY 25 The domestic owners’ battle Mohammed Al Maktoum Dobbs and Silvestre de Sousa TOM JENNINGS / PAT CUMMINGS 27 is definitely a dual with HH who has 19. who are on 29. PHOTO GALLERY 28-29 STATISTICS 30-31 AKHBAR AL KHAIL 32-34 NEXT WEEK’S RACE CONDITIONS 35 QATAR NEWS 36-37 REVIEWS / RESULTS MEYDAN (THURSDAY) 38-41 JEBEL ALI (FRIDAY) 42-43 AL AIN (SATURDAY) 44-45 PREVIEWS / CARDS MEYDAN (THURSDAY) - CARD/ANALYSIS 46-52 MEYDAN (SATURDAY) - CARD/ANALYSIS 54-60 ABU DHABI (SUNDAY) - CARD 62-67 Editorial Editor/writer Mark Jackson Doug Watson Richard Mullen Art Director/Designer Eng. Mohamed Maher Sub-Designer Ismail KV Nisar Shaikh Graphic & Scanner Abdul Majeed Nadim Ahmed Library Abdulla Khalifa K. Aboobacker Photographers K.P. Majeed Abdul Razzak Correspondents Overseas Derek Thomson Alastair Nicolson Howard Wright John Berry Pat Cummings Nicholas Godfrey Musabah Al Muhairi Pat Dobbs Tom Jennings Bloodstock Beverley Townsend Godolphin team home and hosed? Local Harry Tregoning Stephen Molyneux HE 2015 Dubai World Not surprisingly, Bin Suroor’s Richard Mullen’s six, with Paul Cup Carnival statistics stable jockey, James Doyle, Hanagan on five. have a familiar look to leads the way for the riders. His Both Pat Dobbs and Feedback Tthem with Godolphin dominating nine winners are three more than Christophe Soumillon have four. in all categories. English Editorial In the owners’ race, Godolphin Tele.:+971- 4 342 9999 - Fax: +971- 4 342 2121 are on 12 winners, seven ahead of For Back Numbers, Subscriptions and Photography enquiries, Sheikh Hamdan, himself at least please contact: two winners to the good over the Essa Hassan Al Basher, Mobile: +971-50 452 6636 rest. Godolphin stalwart, Saeed P.O. Box 53300, Dubai, UAE. mail: [email protected] bin Suroor, has an even more Al-Adiyat is published and printed healthy lead in the trainers’ title by the Dubai Horse Racing Information Centre. with 13 winners, eight more than All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Doug Watson who is enjoying a reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by fine Carnival. any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording Mike de Kock and Satish or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Seemar both have four, one more the publisher. Opinions expressed in Al-Adiyat do not than Godolphin’s second trainer, necessarily reflect those of the publishers. Charlie Appleby. Saeed Bin Suroor James Doyle 4 26 February 2015 NEWS South African equine legend passes away Winning In USA Bridget Oppenheimer Far too good in J&B Met HE death of the legendary new beginnings and promises rifts were settled and lifelong racing supporter. We need to Horse Chestnut will likely Horse Chestnut, last success, fame and travelling to friendships were formed. His see our racing within a more also leave a legacy on the Thursday, has brought unusual places. talent stunned experts in his international context. We breed as a broodmare sire with Tdeep sadness to the South Life is a reality show, but in home country and abroad; his should look at the opportunities his daughters having already African racing community. It time the legend who is Horse exploits were bewildering, made for promoting international produced talented filly Smart contains, however, the same Chestnut may well transcend of dreams. He opened eyes to competition. We have much to Call in South Africa and likely remarkability which sealed his to the realms of the mystical. new horizons and fulfilled many learn and much to contribute. 2015 Kentucky Derby contender distinguished career. The son of Fort Wood and more dreams. He was an idol Horse Chestnut has opened the Ocho Ocho Ocho. The Thoroughbred, considered the mare London Wall was and an idolmaker. door. He is one of our gifts to Drakenstein Stud owner arguably the best ever to set foot an extraordinary racehorse, In the foreword to Horse the world…” Gaynor Rupert said: “It was a on a South African racetrack, an equine celebrity, a multi- Chestnut: The Story of a Horse Chestnut smashed privilege to stand a horse of such was born on the 19th of August millionaire, crowd-puller Legend, published in 2000, records as he blazed a trail of tremendous importance in South 1995. His breeder, Harry and tear-jerker all in one. He Mike de Kock writes what victories across South Africa African racing history. He was a Oppenheimer, part-owner with emerged as a stabilising icon are now prophetic words: and won his only start in the gentleman and loved by all the his wife Bridget, died on 19th at a tumultuous juncture for “The global racing industry USA before sustaining a career staff at Drakenstein. As one of August 2000. Horse Chestnut racing. He died as one at yet awaits us with open arms. We threatening injury. In all, he won the first two sires on the farm, it died on the 19th, aged 19. another period of division and have underrated ourselves nine of ten starts, earning R10,2 was something special for all at In numerology, the number in-fighting. for too long. I have glimpsed million in the process. the stud to watch the friendship 19 is said to bring everything Horse Chestnut’s fame and several future possibilities Raced by the Oppenheimers, and bond develop between him into focus while winding up fortune created much of the while training Horse Chestnut the colt won the South African and Trippi over the years. He old accounts to start afresh. same for others; around him overseas. African racing is Triple Crown, and was awarded will be sorely missed.” It represents endings and families were brought together, fascinating to the international both the Equus Horse of the Stud manager Ross Fuller Year award and Champion 3yo added: “He was always a Colt in 1999. lovely horse to work with and He ran ten times, suffering one who it is an honour to have defeat only once. Some of his been associated.” DUBAI WORLD CUP NIGHT – tipping competition greatest successes included the De Kock paid his last tributes: Group 1 J&B Met Stakes (by “I have always said, he was Al Basti Equiworld will sponsor over eight lengths), the Group the best I ever trained – by a 1 South African Derby (by ten distance. the Dubai World Cup night tipping competition lengths) and Group 1 South “Horse Chestnut defined my African Classic (four lengths). career and set it on a different for local racing media. and stables. He then went to America path. Working with him was Prize money of Dh25,000 is on offer. and won the Grade 3 Broward a life altering experience. It Handicap and was being changed the course of my own Al Adiyat will manage the competition prepared for the Grade 1 Donn and my family’s lives. Our Handicap when suffering injury memories of him are fond and and selections (for ALL races) and was retired, also ruling out a will always remain.” crack at the Dubai World Cup. One academic described the should be e-mailed to: [email protected] Retired to Claiborne Farm term ‘legend’ as “… a symbolic by no later than 10pm, Wednesday 25th March 2015 in Kentucky, Horse Chestnut representation of folk belief produced Grade One winner and collective experiences Lucifer’s Stone and Grade Two (that serves) as a reaffirmation winner Spanish Chestnut. He of commonly held values of was subsequently purchased the group to whose tradition by the Horse Chestnut it belongs.” Al Basti Equiworld Syndicate and returned to South How do you say goodbye to a Africa in 2009 to stand at horse, a legendary one at that? are offering 3,000 Dubai World Cup night tickets Drakenstein Stud.