3 November 2016 www.aladiyat.ae ISSUE 594 Dhs 5 Thunder Snow Storms to Group One success for Godolphin Meydan in the spotlight Racing returns to the UAE’s flagship racecourse Previews Meydan (Thu) Breeders’ Cup (Fri/Sat) Abu Dhabi (Sun) Cards Pages 41/47 Page 26/29 Pages 49/53 3 November 2016 3 Honours pretty much even after first forays Contents NEWS 3-15 MELBOURNE CUP 5 OTHER AUSTRALIAN RACING 17 SH MANSOUR FESTIVAL 19 BLOODSTOCK 20-25 BREEDERS´ CUP FIELDS 26-27 MICHELE MACDONALAD 28-29 NICHOLAS GODFREY 30 DEREK THOMPSON 31 JOHN BERRY 32 HOWARD WRIGHT 33 TOM JENNINGS 35 RREVIEWS / RESULTS Rashed Bouresly Nasir Askar JEBEL ALI (FRIDAY) 36-37 FTER just two meetings Watson did get on the scoresheet Ffrench, Sam Hitchcott, Jose SHARJAH (SATURDAY) 38-39 and 12 races of the new with Fast Enough proving just Santiago and Xavier Ziani who PREVIEWS / CARDS UAE season, the statistics that, and Secret Ambition the sixth rode a winner apiece. MEYDAN (THU) 41-47 areA obviously very much in their winner on the card supplying Satish Doug Watson doubled his ABU DHABI (SUN) 48-53 embryonic form but one thing does Seemar an early winner. tally for the weekend with Eric stand out: 12 different owners have Antonio Fresu made the perfect Lemartinel, Elise Jeanne, Mohd seen their colours carried to victory. start as Charpy’s stable jockey Ramadan, Helal Al Alawi and Editorial Recent Thoroughbred sales staged with first race success on Tadmir, Yousif bin Ghilan all getting Editor/writer by the Emirates Racing Authority with the six Jebel Ali races divided off the mark. have attracted new owners and have equally around the weighing room. For the last named, it was a first Mark Jackson helped contribute to this fact: two Richard Mullen, Fernando ever winner as a trainer so ‘hats off’ Art Director/Designer of the Jebel Ali winners were recent Jara, Bruno Reis, Pat Dobbs and to him! purchases, one for a ‘brand new’ apprentice, George Buckell, shared Eng. Mohamed Maher owner, Nasir Askar. the other five winners. Assistant Designer One jockey and a pair of trainers Similarly, six different owners have ended the first weekend on two collected trophies with the feature Nisar Shaikh winners with another ten managing a going to Sheikh Hamdan, who also Ismail KV sole success. sponsored the race and, later on the His name may be spelt differently card, a dream start for Nasir Askar; Graphic & Scanner but Musabbeh Al Mheiri is still his first runner as an owner, Secret Abdul Majeed training winners and was in double Ambition, looks just that after Nadim Ahmed form at Jebel Ali, highlighted by the winning a 7f handicap. impressive victory of Mushir in the Champion Jockey Tadhg Library featured 1000m handicap. O’Shea rode two of the six winners Abdulla Khalifa The old adage ‘patience is a at Sharjah on Saturday, opening his K. Aboobacker virtue’ was given great credence seasonal account, as did Royston Antonio Fresu with the success of Salvadori in the Photographers 1000m maiden; his trainer, Rashed Fledgling 2016/2017 UAE statistics Fledgling 2016/2017 UAE statistics K.P. Majeed Bouresly had last graced a local JOCKEYS (by winners, then prize money) TRAINERS (by winners, then prize money) Abdul Razzak winner’s enclosure in February 2015 and he was saddling a victor for just Tadhg O’Shea 2 Musabbeh Al Mheiri 2 the fourth time in the last six seasons. Fernando Jara 1 Doug Watson 2 Correspondents Erwan Charpy made a flying start, landing the season’s opener Richard Mullen 1 Satish Seemar 1 Overseas with Tadmir, denying Doug Watson George Buckell 1 Helal Al Alawi 1 a third consecutive victory in that John BERRY particular contest. 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Opinions expressed in Al-Adiyat do not necessarily reflect Beverley Townsend those of the publishers. 3 November 2016 5 MELBOURNE CUP A race that stopped a few hearts as well as a nation HAT had appeared an ultra competitive renewal of Australia’s flagship Wrace, Tuesday’s Group 1 Emirates Melbourne Cup, developed into a thrilling duel with Heartbreak City, from Ireland, locked in a titanic tussle with Almandin. For trainer Tony Martin and jockey Joao Moreira, sadly, it was to be ‘Heartbreak in Melbourne City’ with their gallant 6yo denied by a head, or little more than a flared nostril, in a truly memorable finish by Kerrin McEvoy and Almandin. McEvoy, who is married to © GettyImages the sister of last year’s winning rider Michelle Payne, ended a 16 year wait between victories in the race, the longest of any multiple Melbourne Cup winning jockey. He said: “Word’s can’t describe it, I’m our four runners with a little bit in just ecstatic. hand at the weights.” “To be able to win another one, Williams and Almandin’s trainer, I’m just over the moon. Lloyd had Robert Hickmott, had combined to faith in me to get the job done, the win the 3200m contest with Green horse had a dream run through. Moon in 2012, while Graeme “I was worried Joao was kicking Rogerson saddled his 2007 victor as well as me but my horse was Efficient. The latter also had just so game, he put his ears back multiple owners sharing the big win and had a crack. He’s been so well in a race surely worthy of a new tag, handled by Lloyd, it was a really that of ‘the race that stops the racing canny job to get him qualified and world’. Hickmott, Williams and just give him a nice four week winning jockey, Kerrin McEvoy, break. He was so fresh and he are Australian but the horse was travelled like a star the whole way; born in Germany, where he was I was never off the bridle.” based before his arrival in Australia. Martin was magnanimous in He actually defeated 2014 McEvoy spent a very productive turned for home but could only plug defeat and said: “I’m so happy for Melbourne Cup winner, time as Godolphin’s second jockey on at the same pace. all the owners, my family and all the Protectionist, at Baden-Baden in between 2004 and 2008, partnering The jury remains out as to crew that work for us back home. June of that year. over 300 winners in Britain. whether he stayed the marathon It was a wonderful performance, Meanwhile, the runner-up, These included a St Leger trip but he still produced a blinder he ran full of heart but it’s just a Heartbreak City was foaled in aboard Rule Of Law and Group and held on for third, well clear of shame we couldn’t quite get him France, is looked after by an One victories on a host of other fellow Godolphin runner, Qewy. across the line.” Irishman and was ridden by a Godolphin luminaries including Craig Williams partnered him for Moreira added: “It was tough, Brazilian who is a legend in Hong both Dubawi and Shamardal. Charlie Appleby, while the Saeed bin he tries 120% and I’m very proud Kong, having previously taken On returning to Australia he rode Suroor-trained Beautiful Romance of the horse. I’m humbled, not Singapore by storm. numerous big winners for both never threatened but stayed on disappointed or upset.” He also won both of the Group Sheikh Mohammed and Godolphin for seventh, one place behind For Almandin’s connections it One sprints at Meydan on Dubai when the majority of their horses Sheikh Hamdan’s Almoonqith. was a case of ‘job well done’ and World Cup night in 2014. were trained by Peter Snowden. Godolphin’s John Ferguson added: another winner in ‘the race that McEvoy, partnering the horse in Even this year, he has enjoyed “ We are absolutely thrilled with stops a nation’ for owner Lloyd a race for the first time, was landing much Godolphin success, Hartnell and with Qewy too. Williams, one of about a dozen the most coveted prize racing has to combining with Charlie Appleby to Qewy has come a long way from names to appear by the horse’s offer in his homeland for a second win big races with Oceanographer when I had him, I don’t think he’ll name in the racecard! time, having also scored aboard and Qewy, who both ran in talk to me now! He has now owned or been Brew in 2000 for Mike Moroney. Tuesday’s race, as well as “It’s a great result, we’re involved in a record five winners of Only 20 at the time, it was that Francis Of Assisi. delighted and we’ve had a great his favourite race. famous victory which propelled Godolphin’s Hartnell, who campaign here. It’s confirmed what Williams said: “This is the race him into the limelight and was not started favourite for John O’Shea we believed we could achieve down we want to win and we thought wasted on Sheikh Mohammed and and James McDonald, loomed as here, we’ve learned a hell of a lot Almandin was our best chance of Team Godolphin.