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Daissaoui 1-2-3 in Zayed Cup race featuresinaugural meeting
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French apprentice Bonnefoy and Slovakian Kucharikova win Fatima races
A 1-2-3 for owner –trainer Kamal Daissaoui in the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race after he had already won the Wathba Stud Farm Cup ensured the spotlight was on the Moroccan on the first day of racing action on the world’s newest race course in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Daissaou served notice when Brown De Saularie won the Prix Wathba Stud Farm, the first of the four HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival races and then rounded it off in the feature race with his horses in the 1-2-3 finish, on Sunday, May 7, 2017.
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Madrid to host 2018 World Arabian Horse Racing Forum
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The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival announced a US$ 200,000 Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup race on Preakness Stakes race meeting day next year in the US to coincide with 100 years of the founder of the UAE while Madrid in Spain was named as the hosts of the World Arabian Horse Racing Forum in 2018.
It will be one of the biggest day’s for Purebred Arabian horses when they line up for Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup 100 Years race at the Pimlico Race Course, in Batlimore, Maryland in 2018. |
HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival raceskick-off action in new race course
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The country that is second in the world for the number of Purebred Arabian horse races it holds every year, opens its 7th race course on Sunday, May 7, 2017 and it will be four races of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival that will feature the debut day.
Morocco, which stages 700 races every year with 40 per cent of them for Purebred Arabians horses - second only to Turkey - opens the racecourse located in Saada Commune in Marrakech with the ‘UAE Abu Dhabi Race Day’ meting. The racecourse is built on an area of 34 hectares and has a racetrack of 1430 metres. |
Festival propels growth of Purebred Arabian racing
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On the final day of the three-day World Arabian Horse Racing Conference held between May 4-6, 2017, in Marrakesh, Morocco, experts were highly optimistic that the future of Arabian Racing was bright and agreed that much credit for the revival of Arabian horse racing in the recent years was mainly propelled by the efforts of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival. |
The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s World Arabian Horse Racing Conference, the 8th edition of which is currently being held in Marrakesh, Morocco, was cited as the sole reason for creating awareness among racing jockeys on the right means of weight control.
While experts, doctors and jockeys gave their views during the session on Jockeys' Weight Control & Nutrition on Thursday, May 4, 2017, almost all of them agreed that ever since this subject was included in the WAHRC, and with the Festival-supported research on the same at the Liverpool John Moores University, jockeys now are more aware of what is on their plates and the methods of training to keep weight.
The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s annual World Arabian Horse Racing Conference got off to a start at the Four Seasons Hotel in Marrakesh, Morocco on Thursday, May 4, 2017.
Over 400 delegates representing 86 countries are attending the three-day conference, which will be followed by the ‘UAE Abu Dhabi Day’ racing at the Hippodrome Marrakesh on Sunday, May 7.
Many UAE envoys and racing officials from the UAE and the world are in attendance.
Purebred Arabian racing fraternity members From 86 countries set for three-day conference
The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival’s eight edition of the World Arabian Horse Racing Conference begins in Marrakesh, Morocco on Thursday, May 4, 2017 with 86 countries being represented as experts debate and discuss various aspects connected with racing.
Seven sessions of the WAHRC will discuss seven different topics over three days while the third and final day will also see a workshop and then on Saturday the Festival’s four different races will be held as part of the ‘UAE Abu Dhabi Day’ meeting.
IFHRA General Assembly held in Marrakech
The International Federation of Horse Racing Academies, IFHRA, which is headquartered in Abu Dhabi, has decided to formulate its own rules and regulations to differentiate between amateur and apprentice jockeys, as it has been creating lot of confusion in the equine fraternity.
Ms Lara Sawaya, Chairperson of the International Federation of Horse Racing Academies (IFHRA) and Executive Director of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Horse Flat Racing Festival and Chairperson of Ladies & Apprentice Racing Committees in the International Federation of Arabian Horse Racing Authorities (IFAHR), disclosed this at the General Assembly meeting held on Wednesday, May 3, 2017, at Marrakesh, Morocco, on the sidelines of the seventh World Arabian Horse Racing Conference, WAHRC.
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All set for WAHRC in Marrakesh
Ms. Sawaya said that the Festival had completed all arrangement for the World Arabian Horse Racing Conference which is set to be staged in Marrakesh, Morocco from May 2, 2017.
“Under the directives of His Highness Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Presidential Affairs and Her Highness Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women's Union, Supreme President of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) and Head of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, the Marrakech WAHRC will be a historic one,” she said.
“Apart from experts and experienced persons in the WAHRC, history will also be written with the inauguration of the Marrakech racecourse and for the first time there will be a race for the Festival on May 7, 2017,” Ms. Sawaya added. |
PROGRAM
May 2
Arrival of guests to Adam Park and Le Jardin d'Agdal |
May 3
10 am - 12 pm
General Assembly at Adam Park Hotel of the International Federation of Horse Racing Academies - IFHRA members and journalists only
2pm
Press conference at Adam Park Hotel
4 pm
IFAHR Executive Board meeting at Adam Park
8 pm
Casablanca Cocktail at Royal Mansour
Dress Code: Chic for Ladies and smart for men |
May 4
10 am
World Arabian Horse Racing Conference kick off from the Four Season Marrakesh Ballroom
- Word of HE Suheil Al Ketbi, Our UAE Ambassador to Morocco
- Word of HE Dr Abdulla Alraisi, Director General of National Archive
- Word of Mr Ahmad Al Qubaisi Director of Marketing & Communications l of Abu Dhabi Sports Council
- Word of ERA represented by Mr Ahmad Alhamadi
- Word of HE Sami Al Boueinain Chairman IFAHR
- Word of Mubarak Alnuaimi, Director of Overseas Promotion TCA Abu Dhabi
- Word of Mr Omar Skalli Director General Sorec
- Word of Miss Khulud Al Nuaimi from National Feed and Flour Production & Marketing Co LLC
10.30 am- 12 pm - Breeding Session
Moderator: Masoud Saleh (Bahrain)
- Essam Abdulla (UAE)
- Khalid Al Nabooda (UAE)
- Jean Pierre Deroubaix(Fr)
- Ezzadine Sedrati (Morocco)
- Hassan Moussli (Syr/ Fr)
- Michelle Morgan ( US)
- Ahmad Rayan (Algeria)
1.30 pm - 3pm - Racing & Training Session
Moderator: Gary Capwell (UK)
- Helal Alalawi (UAE)
- Simon Hobson (US)
- Mohammed Al Hashemi ( Oman)
- Dr Stefano Daneri (italy)
- Francis Mautoban (FR)
- Dr Sefiane Alami (Morocco)
- Sorec (Morocco)
3.30pm - 5 pm - Jockeys' Weight Control & Nutrition
Moderator :Laura King (UK)
- Richard Mullen(UK)
- Xavier Ziani ( FR)
- Mahi Aramideh(UK)
- Acaena Amoros(Spain)
- Dr Jamal Hout(Can)
- Kai Schirmann (GER)
- Dr Philip Pritchard (UK)
Free Dinner |
May 5
10.30am - 12pm - Social Media, PR & Communication Session
Moderator: Derek Thompson (UK)
- Yaqoob Alsaadi (UAE)
- Virginie Bauer(Fr)
- John Cobb (UK)
- Isam Al Sayed (Sudan)
- Jean Claude Allies ( Fr)
- Victoria Shaw (Aus)
- Mondher Zoueiten (Tunisia)
- Mats Genberg (Sweden)
1.30 pm - 3 pm - Rules, Conditions & Regulations
Moderator: Philip Brennan (UK)
- Ahmad Alhamadi (UAE)
- Niel Abraham(Can)
- Yves Plantin ( Fr)
- Nelly Phillipot (Belguim)
- Ahmad Saeed Al Marzouki (UAE)
- Susan Meyer (US)
- Hecham DEBBAGH (Morocco)
- Ian Peterson (South Africa)
3.30 pm - 5 pm - Women in Racing
Moderator: Victoria Shaw
- Val Bunting (UK)
- Moza Almansoori (UAE)
- Stephanie Corum (US)
- Lojain Omran (Saudi Arabia)
- Elizabeth Bernard(FR)
- Anna Pillroh (Sweden)
- Renee Koch (FR)
- Lara Sawaya (UAE)
8 pm: Jemaa El-Fna Night at Dar Imane
Dress Code: Chic for women, Suit for men |
May 6
10.30 am -12 am - Future in Arabian Racing
Moderator:Derek Thompson
- Dr Abdulla Alraisi
- Sami Al Boenain (Qatar)
- Muneera Almarzouqi (UAE)
- Edward Hamod(US)
- Boutros Boutros(FR)
- Mubarak Al Nuaimi(UAE)
- Omar Skalli (Morocco)
- Lara Sawaya(UAE)
12.30 pm -2 pm - Workshop conducted by Lara Sawaya and Derek Thompson
7.30 pm: Fusion Grand Orient Gala Dinner at Palais Namaskar
Dress Code: Long dress for Ladies, Black Suit and bow for men |
May 7
UAE Abu Dhabi Race Day at Marrakesh Hippodrome
Smart Casual for ladies and men |
May 8
Departure of guests |
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