“Fares” challenges “Al-Mahbooba” and “French” in the Al Ain Cup

Essam Al Sayed (Al Ain)

Al Ain Equestrian, Shooting and Golf Club Track will bring down the curtain on its 2023-2024 racing season on Friday, as the closing ceremony begins, which consists of 10 rounds for purebred Arabian horses, with the exception of the seventh round, which was allocated to purebred hybrid horses. The total prizes for the ceremony amount to 680 thousand dirhams.
The sixth round was devoted to the title of Al Ain Cup, “Prestige”, for a distance of 2000 metres, with a total prize pool of 100,000 dirhams. The strongest candidate is “Faris”, after he won a race at the beginning of the current season, and “RB French Dude” seeks to defend the title he won. In 2022, while Sinan finished runner-up in last year’s edition, he returns again, seeking to prove his worth. There is the “beloved” mare that won the first round of the Al Ain Marathon series, which returns to the shorter distance, and there is the representative of Al-Ajban Stables, “Indies Day.”
The ceremony begins with a race for novice Arabian horses over a distance of 1,800 metres, for the title of Remah, and the chances of the horse “Dahi”, the runner-up in his only participation, locally, last month, appear to be the most nominated, and there is “RB Free Bird”, and competing with them is “Farid”.
The novice purebred Arabian horses, “Fillies and Mares,” compete in the second half, over a distance of 1,800 meters – Handicap, for the Markhaniya title, most notably “AF Tshaalal,” “Nagham Al Wathba,” and “Taghreed.”
The third half was devoted to a distance of 1800 metres, for the horses competing for the Mzyad 1 title, and the most prominent candidate was “Rajeh”, who achieved his first victory at the Al Ain track two weeks ago, and he faces strong horses such as “A.F. Mukharj”, the winner over the same track and distance, and with him his companion in the stable, “A. The Majestic F, along with Game Time.
“Caesar” leads the nominations for the par race in the fourth heat over a distance of 1800 metres, for the title of Mazyad 2, and he is competed by “Majdi” and “WS Lattam”.
The fifth half, over a distance of 2000 metres, for the title of Al Muwaiji, witnesses an exciting struggle between the novice Arabian horses “Emirates Production”, the most prominent of which are “AF Al Malahab” and “Raji Al Wathba”, along with “HK Khanjar”, ​​which poses a threat in the race.
The seventh half of the mile attracts an elite group of purebred crossbred horses, for the Al-Khazna title, and attention turns to the competition between trainers Michael Costa and Bobat Simar, and the most prominent challenger horses “Magdy”, “Ghost of the Mambo”, “Booster Paint”, along with “Perfect”. Balance, and Capla Crusader.
“Najeeb”, the runner-up on 4 occasions, leads the nominations in the eighth round for the 1600 meters, for the Al Khabisi title, and is competing with “AF Farstaq” and “Mukhlas”.
“RB Kings Bay” is searching for the title of the Al Wathba Stallions Cup for the owners of the private stables “Handicap”, sponsored by the His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan Racing Festival, in the ninth half of the mile, and also competing with “Stelvio”, “N Kiam”, and “A”. F. Motakaful” and “Sincerly”.
The ceremony concludes with the tenth and final round of the 2023-2024 UAE racing season, with AF Nafuth, Afif, and the filly Futoun Al Wathba competing for the title of the race, which is 1,400 meters long.