THE VOICE OF HORSE RACING IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 4 December 2014 ISSUE 543 Dhs 5 Areem and Nawwaar bid to defend their National Day Crowns AREEM - Purebred Arabian National Day Cup 2012 AREEM - Purebred Arabian National Day Cup 2013 NAWWAAR - Thoroughbred National Day Cup 2013 Derbaas and Sahib Du Clos seek to regain their National Day titles DERBAAS - Thoroughbred National Day Cup 2012 SAHIB DU CLOS - Purebred Arabian National Day Cup 2011 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 4 December 2014 3 Watson treble propels him up the table Contents NEWS 3-13 JAPAN RACING NEWS 14-15 BLOODSTOCK 17 ENDURANCE 19 HOWARD WRIGHT / ALASTAIR NICOLSON 20 TOM JENNINGS / PAT CUMMINGS 21 DEREK THOMPSON / JOHN BERRY 22 NICHOLAS GODFREY 23 NEXT WEEK’S RACE CONDITIONS 25 STATISTICS 26-27 AKHBAR AL KHAIL 28-29 QATAR NEWS 31 REVIEWS / RESULTS JEBEL ALI (FRIDAY) 32-33 AL AIN (SATURDAY) 34-35 Satish Seemar Doug Watson ABU DHABI (SUNDAY) 36-37 Jebel Ali treble last Mullen, clinging on to his lead trainer’s Jebel Ali winners and PREVIEWS / CARDS Friday for trainer with 14 victories. is in fourth on eight. MEYDAN (THURSDAY) 39 Doug Watson, whose Royston Ffrench is in hot HH Sheikh Khalifa bin MEYDAN CARD/ANALYSIS 40-43 Ahorses have been in great form pursuit on 13, one more than Zayed Al Nahyan has seen his SHARJAH (SATURDAY) 45 all season, takes him to nine reigning Champion Jockey, colours carried to victory eight SHARJAH CARD 46-49 winners, just one behind Satish Tadhg O’Shea. times, one more than those ABU DHABI (SUNDAY) 51 Seemar who remains on ten. Watson’s stable jockey, of HH Sheikh Hamdan bin ABU DHABI CARD 52-55 As well as his nine winners, Pat Dobbs, rode two of the Rashid Al Maktoum. Watson has also saddled 13 seconds and, of his 62 runners Editorial this season, only 19 have failed to collect a cheque. Editor/writer Mark Jackson Similarly, Seemar with ten Eng. Mohamed Maher seconds, has seen all bar 25 of Art Director/Designer his 66 runners collect a prize. Sub-Designer Ismail KV Reigning Champion Trainer, Nisar Shaikh Ernst Oertel, ended something of a barren spell with a success Graphic & Scanner Abdul Majeed at Abu Dhabi on Sunday, Nadim Ahmed moving him to eight winners, the same number as Musabah Library Abdulla Khalifa Al Muhairi. K. Aboobacker The jockeys’ championship is equally close with Seemar’s Photographers K.P. Majeed stable jockey, Richard Richard Mullen Pat Dobbs Abdul Razzak Good news for owners, trainers and jockeys Correspondents Meydan Racecourse prize money for non-Carnival races Overseas Derek Thomson Alastair Nicolson Effective Thursday December 4th, prize money for Howard Wright John Berry all non-Carnival races at Meydan Racecourse has been increased by Dh10,000 per race. Pat Cummings Nicholas Godfrey Tom Jennings This includes non-Carnival races during Bloodstock Beverley Townsend January and February and in addition to the Dh10,000 per race increase announced Local Stephen Molyneux for the November 20th meeting Harry Tregoning Feedback English Editorial Last week’s impressive Jebel Ali Tele.:+971- 4 342 9999 - Fax: +971- 4 342 2121 maiden winner, Faulkner, For Back Numbers, Subscriptions and Photography enquiries, please contact: actually won the first trial on Essa Hassan Al Basher, Mobile: +971-50 452 6636 the new Meydan dirt surface. P.O. Box 53300, Dubai, UAE. mail: [email protected] Al-Adiyat is published and printed by the Dubai Horse Racing Information Centre. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be Trained by Doug Watson, reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by he was ridden by Pat Dobbs any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of on both occasions. the publisher. Opinions expressed in Al-Adiyat do not ©: Dubai Racing Club / Andrew Watkins Faulkner - red hat necessarily reflect those of the publishers. 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 4 December 2014 5 Mushreq’s half-brother makes exciting debut HEIKH HAMDAN’S “Currently all bloodstock homebred 3yo colt, Ertijaal, imports are required to spend 30 made an impressive winning days in quarantine overseas and Sdebut on the Polytrack at Greyville then another 30 days in quarantine last Friday, winning a maiden by when they land here, so they’re not nearly eight lengths in a quick time. moving about as they should be. Jockey Anthony Delpech kept “We’ve been focusing for a long Ertijaal within striking distance and time on our export protocols over pushed him along for a few strides on which we really have no say, but the turn for home. Ertijaal soon went we should sort out the import rules from looking in trouble to picking first. It will be much easier. When it up the bit, moving swiftly around comes to imports our authorities can runners to lead 350m from home and lay down the rules. There is no need win easily. whatsoever for a 30 day quarantine Winning trainer Mike De Kock, at the various shores of departure. who was not there, commented: “Horses purchased in Australia “As always I don’t like to assess and elsewhere can be flown in winners like these before they’ve almost immediately and complete confirmed their ability in decent their 30 days in quarantine in races, but Ertijaal looks to have the South Africa.” right attributes. Bred by Sheikh Hamdan’s “He’s a half-brother to Mushreq, Shadwell Stud, Ertijaal’s pedigree who won a Group Two for us in holds plenty of promise. He is Dubai. Let’s hope Ertijaal can go on by the Danzig sire Hard Spun from here with similar progress.” and the eighth foal produced Mike added Ertijaal’s career by Alharir, whose progeny had been delayed due to setbacks have generally raced well on all including colic surgery. He said: surfaces, winning Graded races “We’ve had problems with a on turf and dirt – though Mushreq number of imported runners and himself preferred turf over the South Africa’s ridiculous import Tapeta at Meydan. regulations have much to do with it. Sheikh Hamdan also has a horse called Ertijaal, racing in England, who was a Listed winner on Polytrack in March and good enough to contest the Newmarket 2000 Guineas. Two Cape Fillies Guineas for Sheikh Hamdan Sheikh Hamdan’s Majmu heads the 10 declared runners for the Grade 1 Cape Fillies Guineas at Kenilworth on Saturday. The 1 million rand classic is the joint first leg of the Wilgerbosdrift Triple Tiara and Mike de Kock also runs Ataab in the same ownership. The Joey Ramsden-trained Cold As Ice, winner of the Grade 2 Choice Carriers Championship, heads the local challenge. She is drawn wider than the De Kock pair and there are doubts about her seeing out the last 200m if the pace is a strong one. good enough to contest the Newmarket 2000 Guineas. Mike De Kock Majmu Ertijaal - the UK version 6 4 December 2014 HE UAE racing community was in shock last weekend after Jason Local racing stalwart TWellings, a well known and much respected character in the local racing scene, tragically died in sadly passes away in UK England. The 44yo, who was now employed as a work rider for James Anyone wishing to contribute to the Jason Wellings’ Fanshawe, died after suffering memorial fund a suspected heart attack while riding out in Newmarket early last can contact either David Trow or Carl Hodgson. Friday morning. Jockeys at Jebel Ali the same [email protected] afternoon wore black armbands [email protected] in his memory. A popular member of the Pegasus Stables team, Wellings Any donations will be gratefully received fell from his mount, who was in memory of a true stalwart of the UAE racing season uninjured, on the Long Hill who will be sorely missed by all. Polytrack during first lot. A familiar racing figure, RIP Jason Wellings had regularly worked in Dubai and previously was employed by John Gosden during Sawaya had generously after riding winners in the capital into the circumstances surrounding sympathy goes out to his family his time at Manton. dedicated Dh10,000 on behalf on Sunday. the death, although this is normal and friends.” In Dubai he worked for John of Sheikh Mansoor’s Global The jockeys have also procedure in such cases. William Gittus, managing Hyde, riding Sheikh Hamdan’s Arabian Horse Racing Festival. pledged to help raise funds for Fanshawe said: “It’s all terribly director of Jockey Club Estates, juveniles, as well as being head Senior UAE jockeys, Wayne Wellings’ family. sad as Jason was a very popular said: “Jockey Club Estates is valet for the jockeys on racedays Smith, Richard Mullen, Two ambulances attended the figure at Pegasus and lived saddened by the death of Jason around the UAE. Royston Ffrench and reigning scene but paramedics were unable on the yard.