20 Saturday, March 25, 2017 SPORTS MasterpieceA scene from the race rides to victory Manama Other results: econd favourite Dutch Masterpiece owned by (jockey/horse): 2) Caped Crusader/Ahmed Makki Faisal 1) Madinat Jumeirah/Brett Doyle Ramadhan Stable, trained by Jaber Ramadhan and Race 1: Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad 3) Rayaash/Alberto Sanna Race 4: Shaikh Sultan bin Hamad 2) Fadhaa/Saleem Ghoolam riddenS by Abdulla Faisal won the seventh and final race for the Silver Cup sponsored by the Rashid Equestrian Al Khalifa Cup for all classes of 4) Question Mark/Brett Al Khalifa Cup for imported handi- 3) Crown Of Aragon/Ali Samir and Horse Racing Club for imported three years and locally bred 3 years only. 1,200 Doyle cap (0-110) 3 years and upwards. 4) Telefono/Marco upwards over 1,200 metres straight and worth BD3,000 metres straight BD2,000. Race 3: Shaikh Sultan bin Hamad 1,600 metres BD3,000. Race 6: at the 20th race meeting of the season yesterday at the 1) Broug/Hussain Makki Al Khalifa Cup for Arabian Horses, 1) Empiricist/Salem Ghoolam National Guard Cup for locally Rashid Equestrian and Horse Racing Club in Sakhir. Coming in second a half length behind was Muraweg 2) Marami/Adnan Jaffar third, fourth and maiden classes 3 2) Emerald/Hassan Al Saffar bred 3 years and upwards. 1,600 owned by Al Buainain, trained by Yousif Al Buainanin 3) Mayyas/Alberto Sanna years and upwards. 1,000 metres 3) Pleasure Bent/Stephane Ladjadj metres BD3,000. and ridden by Hussain Makki, followed in third by a 4) Al Barea/Ali Samir straight BD2,000. 4) Silversmith/Andrew Elliott 1) Shamikh/Andrew Elliott head was Bazaruto owned by Ali Nabeel Abdulla Dadulla, Race 2: For locally bred handicap 1) Al Jellaby 1656/Hassan Al Saffar Race 5: Shaikh Khalifa bin Hamad 2) No Doubt/Brett Doyle trained by Abdulla Haji and ridden by Hassan Al Saffar. Fourth place a further length and a quarter behind (0-60) 3 years and upwards. 1,000 2) Al Saqlawy 1657/Hussain Makki Al Khalifa Cup for handicap 3) Zalazel/Alberto Sanna was Blood Moon owned by Shaikh Khalid bin Ali bin Isa metres straight BD1,500. 3) Tuwaisan 1659/Alberto Sanna (0-100) 3 years and upwards. 2,200 4) Wayne Looney/Abdulla Al Khalifa, trained by Abdulla Kuwaiti and ridden by P 1) Lazzaz/Ali Samir 4) Al Musannas 1552/Abdulla metres BD2,000. Faisal Convertino. Miami hurdle in Miami. econd seed “It’s a big tournament and I Pliskova Karolina Pliskova wanted to make it better this year. Crolla wants win cruisedS into the third I will be ready for the next one,” London bout that also took place at the round of the Miami said the Czech, whose twin sister nthony Crolla hopes to Manchester Arena. eases Open, the Czech Kristyna is also in the Miami field. repay his loyal supporters “Every time it (the support) beating American Slovakian fourth seed Dominika whenA he fights champion Jorge grows and it grows, and that’s qualifier Madison Cibulkova needed to dig deep to Linares for the World Boxing just people who come out to through Brengle 6-1, 6-3 on fight past Paraguayan qualifier Association lightweight belt in see me step on the scales in my Thursday. Veronica Cepede Royg. front of his Manchester home boxer shorts,” said Crolla. While her serve The 90-minute encounter was far crowd today. “It means the world and in Miami was not at its best, the tougher for Cibulkova than the 6-3 Crolla’s fans were out in force these (supporters) are one of 25-year-old Pliskova 6-2 scoreline suggests and she was for Friday’s weigh-in at the the motivations that gets me never looked in danger, comfortably relieved with the win. Radisson hotel in Manchester, out of bed in the morning and dominating while winning 78 “I just stayed aggressive,” she northern England, where both to work as hard as what I do,” percent of return points. said. “It was my first match here, boxers weighed in at 9st 8lbs the 30-year-old added. “There were a few tight games but so it was pretty hot and it wasn’t 7oz (60.8 kg) -- well within the “It’s going to make me bite I think I was pretty solid. It went easy conditions. But I made it lightweight limit. down on that gumshield even quite easy and I was really happy through.” They will be hoping to see harder tomorrow (Saturday) to spend only an hour out there Cibulkova faces another tough Crolla regain the title he to make sure those belts because its pretty hot and humid and test, though, against Belgian Kirsten lost to the Venezuelan stay in Manchester.” so I am happy to save some power Flipkens, who fought her way past in September, in a for the later matches,” said Pliskova. Croatian 29th seed Ana Konjuh 7-6 “The serve wasn’t really great and (7/4), 6-7 (6/8), 6-2. hasn’t been for the last few weeks but Agnieszka Radwanska beat I think my game from the baseline China’s Wang Qiang 7-6, 6-1 and was better, it’s improving, Caroline Wozniacki comfortably my backhand is better, I went through 6-1, 6-2 against Karolina Pliskova of was feeling pretty good Varvara Lepchenko. the Czech Republic just want to improve Sixth-seeded Spaniard Garbine the serve a bit now,” Muguruza was trounced 6-0 in the she added. first set by American opponent Pliskova reached the Christina McHale and was down semi-finals of Indian Wells 3-2 on McHale’s serve in the second last week and she said she when rain began. Play was eventually was keen to avoid a repeat of cancelled for the day and McHale last year when she made the last will look to complete the upset on four in California but fell at the first Friday. Anthony Crolla .