DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP Ascot, Saturday, August 11, 2012 MEDIA GUIDE INDEX 3 THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 4 ORDER OF RUNNING & ADMISSION DETAILS 5 TIMETABLE OF EVENTS, FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT 6 POST-RACING CONCERT – “HERE AND NOW” THE VERY BEST OF THE 1980’s 7 THE PRIZES 8 “BEST DAY’S RACING FOR OWNERS”, DETAILS OF RESERVES, LADBROKES – OFFICAL BOOKMAKER 9 DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP RULES DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 'DRAW' PROCEDURE & ALLOCATION OF MOUNTS 10 – 13 PROFILES OF PARTICIPATING JOCKEYS 14 PAST WINNERS OF THE “SILVER SADDLE” FOR LEADING JOCKEY AT THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 15 REMEMBERING SHERGAR 16 ABOUT DUBAI DUTY FREE – SPONSORSHIP SUCCESS AS SALES SOAR 17 – 36 PAST RESULTS AT THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP 37 KEY ASCOT CONTACTS, ACCREDITATION & MEDIA SERVICES 2 THE DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is Britain's premier jockeys' competition, a unique event where top jockeys in four teams - Great Britain and Ireland, Europe, the Rest of the World and for the first time this year The Girls - battle against each other in a thrilling six- race showdown. • 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. • All six races are handicaps and all will be run with identical prize money - £30,000 per race. • 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 travel 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 of the whole event for the first time. • The three male teams will go against the first ever all-female team to take part in an international jockeys’ competition. The Girls team is made of up of arguably the world’s three top female riders, Hayley Turner (Captain, UK), Chantal Sutherland (Canada/USA) and Emma-Jayne Wilson (Canada). Turner is the most successful female rider ever in Great Britain and bagged two Group One successes in 2011 on Dream Ahead and Margot Did while this season she became only the second female jockey to ride in the Investec Derby at Epsom. Her team mates both hail from North America. Chantal Sutherland has clocked close to 1,000 successes and landed the historic Grade One Santa Anita Handicap in 2011 on Game On Dude and also finished runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Classic on the same horse. Eclipse Award-winning Emma-Jayne Wilson, who has also enjoyed almost 1,000 victories in the USA and Canada, became the first-ever female champion jockey at Woodbine and also landed the Grade One Queen’s Plate, part of Canada’s Triple Crown, on Mike Fox in 2007. Wilson is participating in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup for the second time, having ridden in the 2006 event. • The line-up for the Rest of the World team is Yutaka Take (Captain, Japan), Aaron Gryder (USA) and Matthew Chadwick (Hong Kong). Yutaka Take is the legendary Japanese superstar who has been crowned champion jockey in his homeland no less than 18 times and who has ridden four Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup winners in his five appearances in the competition to date. The highly experienced Aaron Gryder flies in from San Francisco to have his first experience of riding in Britain since 1992. He has won titles at Churchill Downs, Arlington Park and Aqueduct and also had a successful stint in Hong Kong, but is best known for his Dubai World Cup win on Well Armed in 2009 which was achieved by a stunning margin of a 14 lengths, a record for the world’s richest horse race. Matthew Chadwick promises to be the best ever home-grown jockey in Hong Kong. He started as an apprentice in Hong Kong well into the 2008/9 season, yet still won the champion apprentice title with 43 winners and rode out his claim in January, 2010, in a Hong Kong record of one year and three weeks. Chadwick has already had a taste of riding in Britain this summer and enjoyed his first victory in the UK on the Charlie Hills-trained Red Explorer at Ffos Las on July 24. • The line-up for the European team is Frankie Dettori (Captain, Italy), Andreas Suborics (Germany) and Cristian Demuro (Italy). Dettori, 41, has not been able to take part in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup since 2008 due to his commitments with Godolphin but the popular Italian, who will forever be associated with his “Magnificent Seven” at Ascot in 1996, returns in 2012. Andreas Suborics, three times champion jockey in Germany, last took part in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup in 2007. Ironically that was the last time August 11 was the date for the Shergar Cup – it is Suborics’ birthday which he will once again celebrate at Ascot, this time bringing his wife over with him as he turns 41. Cristian Demuro, 20, Mirco’s younger brother, won the Italian championship last year at the age of just 19 after riding 222 winners during the season. He partnered 153 winners in 2010 to finish second in the table and has also ridden winners in Japan, where he has spent two successful stints, and Dubai. • Two of the most experienced members of the weighing room in Kieren Fallon (Captain, Ireland) and Johnny Murtagh (Ireland) plus exciting young talent James Doyle (Great Britain) make up the Great Britain and Ireland team. Fallon, who has been crowned champion jockey on six occasions, has enjoyed Group One success around the globe and ridden the winner of the Derby on three occasions while Murtagh boasts a similarly glittering career, also having ridden three Derby winners among an array of big-race victories. James Doyle, who grew up not far from Ascot in the Lambourn area, has seen his career really take off in 2012 following his association with the powerful Roger Charlton stable. Doyle enjoyed his biggest career success on Cityscape in the Group One Dubai Duty Free in March. • The Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup is being run for the 12th time at Ascot. The Shergar Cup first took place at Ascot in 2000 when it was staged as an owners’ competition. It became a jockeys’ competition in 2001 and has gone from strength to strength ever since, attracting bumper crowds year after year. The one year it did not take place was 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 10 -13) for further information on this year’s team colours. • The “Girl Power” theme continues in the post-racing concert, when some of the top female acts from the 1980s will appear live on stage at Ascot. They include Bananarama, who with 30 Top 40 hits remain the Guinness Book of Records’ most successful girl band of all time, Carol Decker, who fronted the rock band T’Pau, Katrina Leskanich, former lead singer of Katrina and The Waves, and solo artist Belinda Carlisle. • Midge Ure, the former front man of “Ultravox”, Howard Jones and Rick Astley are the male stars from the ‘80s who will be performing. 3 DUBAI DUTY FREE SHERGAR CUP DAY ORDER OF RUNNING Saturday, August 6, 2011 Les Ambassadeurs Casino Shergar ATR 12.55 pm Cup Mile 4+ £30,000 Old Mile (Class 2) (Handicap) (81-100) Redstone Shergar Cup Stayers (Class ATR 1.30pm 4+ £30,000 Two Miles 2) (Handicap) (81-100) CH4/ Barclays Shergar Cup Dash (Class 2) 2.05pm 3+ £30,000 Five Furlongs ATR (Handicap) (86-105) CH4/ Titanic Belfast Shergar Cup Classic One Mile & 2.40 pm 3 £30,000 ATR (Class 3) (Handicap) (76-95) Four Furlongs Michael Page International Shergar CH4/ One Mile & 3.15 pm Cup Challenge 4+ £30,000 ATR Four Furlongs (Class 3) (Handicap) (76-95) CH4/ Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Sprint 3 3.50 pm £30,000 Six Furlongs ATR (Class 2) (Handicap) (81-100) ADMISSION DETAILS Admission prices are as follows: Premier Admission £47 General Admission £26 Free admission for accompanied children aged 18 and under. Latest admission is 3.50pm. To purchase tickets, visit www.ascot.co.uk or call Ascot’s booking line on 0870 727 1234. 4 TIMETABLE OF EVENTS Gates Open: 11.00am First Race: 12.55pm Last Race: 3.50pm Last admission: 3.50pm Concert starts: 4.30pm Concert ends: 7.15pm Dance Cover Band: 7.30pm Bars Close: 8.30pm FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT There will be an array of activities to keep the whole family entertained from fairground rides to urban display workshops. If you have younger racegoers in your party why not join the Colts & Fillies Club. A free club for all children aged 16 & under. For more information visit www.coltsandfillies.co.uk 5 POST RACING CONCERT – “HERE & NOW” THE VERY BEST OF THE 1980’s After the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Closing ceremony, Ascot is excited to introduce a live '80s concert in the Old Paddock in association with the “Here and Now Tour”.