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FOOTBALL | Page 3 GGOLFOLF | Page 9 City suff er fi rst Reed helps Guardiola loss put US in To Advertise here as London command aft er Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 duo close in Europe rally Monday, October 3, 2016 CRICKET Muharram 2, 1438 AH Ton-up Azam GULF TIMES anchors Pakistan’s series win over WI SPORT Page 11 QATAR ARABIAN WORLD CUP Al Mourtajez superb in Chantilly victory By Satya Rath won the Qatar International Stakes, slow start from his gate number 10 Chantilly, France which was run as part of the Qatar start but was soon into his groove Goodwood Festival in July. He now at the halfway mark, blitzing past has to win the HH Emir’s Sword, to his rivals and letting the guard l Mourtajez looked un- be run in Doha in February 2017 to down till the fi nish. stoppable in winning the win the $1,000,000 bonus, and the “He’s very diff erent for other Qatar Arabian World Cup, kind of form he is in at the moment, horses,” Auge was quoted as saying winning by an imperi- it would be a surprise if he can’t in media reports before the race. Aous four-and-a-half lengths to not manage the feat. “His big action, the big stride just only repeat his 2015 feat, but also The Arabian runner has looked takes him along and it is possible to stay in line for the Doha Triple unstoppable wherever he has run that he can change gear and sprint Crown. this season, with as many as seven at the end of the race. He is the best The Al Shaqab Racing cham- Group 1 wins, coming into the Arc Purebred Arabian horse that you pion colt started slowly but had too weekend and most of his wins have will see in the world. Some Arabi- much speed for his 14 rivals in the been by big length margins. ans can change speed, but this Ara- 2000m Group 1 race, sponsored The Qatar Arabian World Cup, bian is exceptional because he runs by Al Emadi Enterprises. Mehdaaf established in 2008, is considered like a thoroughbred.” Athbah fi nished a distant second, as the equivalent to the Qatar Prix Barring the HH Emir’s Sword beating HH Sheikh Abdullah bin de l’Arc de Triomphe for Purebred earlier this year, where he was Khalifa al-Thani-owned Tayf in a Arabians with a prize money of beaten by Gazwan, Al Mourtajez photo fi nish at the Chantilly race- 1,000,000 euros. has been unstoppable this sea- course here. Under long-time jockey Julien son. Yesterday’s win extended the Jockey Julien Auge rides Al Shaqab Racing’s Al Mourtajez to victory in the Qatar Arabian World Cup (Gr1 PA) at Chantilly racecourse in The son of Dahess has already Auge, Al Mourtajez had a rather streak. France yesterday. PICTURE: Juhaim HORSE RACING FOUND LEADS O’BRIEN’S ‘It’s a great feeling to saddle the first three home in an Arc, there’s not much to beat it, but it’s all down to a fantastic team ARC SWEEP eff ort... what makes it amazing is that they are all by Galileo’ HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani (right) presents owners Michael Tabor (second from right) and David Smith (second from left) with the trophy after Found won the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Chantilly yesterday. PICTURE: Juhaim Jockey Ryan-Lee Moore (left) and his ride Found are led in after their Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe win yesterday. (AFP) By Satya Rath Galileo out of Red Evie, was the sur- 14th-place fi nish. Dual Derby hero four times before and she has been un- but after breaking well he was trapped She had proved her quality at the Chantilly, France prise winner of the 2016 Arc, leading Harzand, one of the Arc contenders be- lucky this season, with so many close three wide early on and couldn’t get age of two, winning her maiden race stablemates Highland Reel and Order hind Postponed, ended a distant ninth. second-place fi nishes. We came here in. It meant he met the big bend on the on her very first start in August 2014, of St George for a remarkable one-two- “It’s unbelievable… First, second very hopeful and had our eye on this wrong lead and then he didn’t quicken and then ran directly into the Group 1 n upset of upsets marked the three fi nish for trainer Aidan O’Brien. and third in the Arc, it’s just incred- for a long time,” the 46-year-old Irish up like he can. It’ a big disappointment Moyglare Stud Stakes in September. Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Tri- Ridden by Ryan Moore, she trailed ible. Words can’t describe it. It’s just trainer said. as we went in hoping we would win, but She finished well in third place, de- omphe, the blue riband race early but was always well positioned to amazing,” said Michael Tabor, one of “It’s a great feeling to saddle the fi rst the main thing is we still have a horse spite her lack of experience. She then of the Arc weekend, at the mount her challenge. And she did it in the three owners of the fi lly. “This is three home in an Arc, there’s not much to go to war with and we can take him went to Longchamp for the Total Prix AChantilly racecourse here yesterday. the long straight, getting past the pace- the time of the year for her. We knew to beat it, but it’s all down to a fantastic home and see how he comes out of Marcel Boussac (Group 1), winning by Neither the pre-Arc favourite, nor setting Vedevani from the Aga Khan we had a chance, but this is the Arc… it team eff ort. And what makes it amaz- this.” over two lengths in a race that brings any of the closest contenders, came stable at the 400m mark and never feels so unreal.” ing is that they are all by Galileo...it’s Runner-up in the Tattersalls Gold together all the best two-year-old anywhere near. Rather it was the turn looked back thereafter. Found’s trainer O’Brien was over the indeed a privilege to be here,” he added. Cup, Coronation Cup, Prince of Wales’s French and European fillies. Since of three Irish outsiders to shine in glory Arc favourite Postponed, on an un- moon. “I’m so delighted for everyone. I Fifth-placed Postponed’s trainer Stakes, Yorkshire Oaks and Irish May this year, she has been succes- in the 5,000,000 euros 16-horse race, beaten streak dating back to July 2015, couldn’t have imagined anything high- Roger Varian said he was surprised to Champion Stakes on her last fi ve starts, sively place second. run over 2400 metres on the historic could only fi nish fi fth, while Japan’s er in my career than this. After all, this see him not being able to quicken up at Found fi nally got her head in front when It was time to end the jinx and she course, and all from the same stable. Arc jinx continued when their big hope is the Arc… I still feel it’s a dream. She the right time. “(Jockey) Andrea (Atze- it mattered the most to end her brides- couldn’t have asked for a better occa- Found, a four-year-old bay fi lly by Makahiki hardly threatened in a poor has run over a mile-and-a-half only ni) said he felt great going to the post, maid’s tag in Europe’s richest race. sion to do that. Gulf Times 2 Monday, October 3, 2016 SPORT HORSE RACING Wuheida, National Defense among winners on Arc day Al Shaqab’s Karar second in Qatar Prix de la Foret; Speedy Boarding wins Qatar Prix de l’Opera Longines in a photo finish By Satya Rath Chantilly, France uheida won the opening race of the Arc day, the 300,000 euros Total Prix Marcel Boussac Criterium WDes Pouliches, with a stirring fi nishing run in the fi nal stretch at the Chantilly racecourse here yesterday. It was her maiden Group 1 victory in only her sec- ond career start. The two-year-old fi lly, under Nor- wegian William Buick, was trailing favourite Dabyah till the fi nal 200 me- tres of the 1,600m race before her late burst ended the fl owing run of the tir- ing Dabyah, who was then edged out by Promise To Be True on the line to end a close third. Charlie Appleby, who saddled Du- bawi’s daughter, said he was expecting a good performance from her. “I am de- lighted with how she came from behind to win. We had been preparing her hard for the Arc and I am so happy she has de- livered. The further she goes, the better she will become,” the trainer said. It was a start-to-fi nish sprint for the imperious National Defense in the 350,000 euros Qatar Prix Jean-Luc La- gardere (Grand Criterium), the second race of the Arc afternoon. The Brit- ish raider, under local jockey Pierre- France Galop president Edouard de Rothschild (centre) and Total E&P Mena Charles Boudot, won the 1,600m Group Al Emadi Enterprises CEO Mohamed al-Emadi (second from left) with the winners of the Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere, after president Stephane Michel with the winners of Total Prix Marcel Boussac Criterium 1 race by four-and-a-half lengths National Defense won the race yesterday.