H.H. Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival

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Lady jockeys race in Abu Dhabi
Lady jockeys race in Abu Dhabi

The last race of the evening at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club featured the 1600m HH Sheikh Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies’ IFAHR Cup, an invitational race for amateur lady riders. The 12 ladies from 12 different countries on Purebred Arabians was an exciting feature of the evening, leading off with young girls in Arabian dress escorting the riders onto the field for introduction... Read More

 

Trainer Lemartinel sweeps
HH Sheikh Mansoor Festival races
Gerald Avranche and Albar Lotois

French trainer Eric Lemartinel saw his horses win all the three races organized by the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival including the UAE’s first-ever ladies race in the HH Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Ladies IFAHR Cup... Read More

 

Book on HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival launched
lançamento do livro HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival

At an impressive function at the Emirates Palace Hotel on Monday night, the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival launched an attractive book recording its activities and achievements from 2009 to 2011... Read More

 

Twelve jockeys to fight for honours in first
flat-race for females
apresentação de 12 joquetas em Abu Dhabi

Purebred Arabian racing on focus as season gets under way
Women all set for big race day

Abu Dhabi: Twelve women jockeys including Ladies Fegentri Cup World champion Tina Henriksson were introduced to the media ahead of today's Her Highness Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies IFAHR Cup — the UAE's first flat-race for female jockeys... Read More

First race meet of fall season in Abu Dhabi
to include 13 lady riders
Lara Sawaya, Festival Director, Sami Al Boenain, President of IFHAR, Adnan Al Nuaimi, Director General, ADEC

29 October, Abu Dhabi - Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club Director General, Adnan Sultan Saif Al Nuaimi, announced the dates of 15 days of racing for the 2011-2012 season at a press conference held Saturday. The first race will go off on Sunday, October 30 with the race calender ending on March 18, 2012. The end of October meet will include the Wathba Stud Farm Cup for Private Owners, the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Prestige Cup and, new on the Abu Dhabi calender, the H.H. Sheikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies IFAHR Cup Prestige featuring amateur riders. The support of this race brings together 13 ladies representing different countries to compete on horses from top Abu Dhabi owners and trainers... Read More

 

Purebred Arabian racing on focus
as season gets under way
largada corrida de cavalos árabes

Highlight of Abu Dhabi event will be HH The President's Cup and National Day Cup,
while lady jockeys will have their first-ever race

The season starts with the Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup which has attracted some of the top Group 1 runners vying for a slice of the Dh150,000 prize money and is part of the three-race category being organised under the umbrella of the Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival.

The Zayed Cup and the Her Highness Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies IFAHR Cup bring the curtain down on the Festival's activities for the 2010-11 season while the Wathba Stud farm Cup kick-starts the new season for the Festival.... Read More

 

Fatima Ladies Cup marks another milestone
UAE's first-ever ladies flat-race will be held at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club

By M. Satya Narayan, Chief Sports Reporter, Gulf News

Abu Dhabi: History will be made when 12 lady jockeys and their horses take off from the stalls in tomorrow's season-opening (Oct 30) meeting at the Abu Dhabi Equestrian Club racecourse as the Her Highness Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Ladies IFAHR Cup becomes the UAE's first-ever ladies flat-race... Read More

 

Rasikh, Saher complete 1-2 for HH Sheikh Mansoor in
Swiss Wathba Stud Farm Cup race
Rasikh, Saher complete 1-2 for HH Sheikh Mansoor in Swiss Wathba Stud Farm Cup race

Rasikh and Saher, both owned by HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Presidential Affairs, registered a brilliant 1-2 finish in the Wathba Stud Farm Cup race held in Avenches in Switzerland.... Read More

 

Saher starts favourite in Sunday’s
Wathba Stud Farm Cup in Avenches

Saher, owned by HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE and Minister of Presidential Affairs will be starting off as the favourite in Sunday October 9th’s Wathba Stud Farm Cup race to be held in Avenches, Switzerland. Trained by Robert Litt, Saher will be partnered with jockey Mathias Sautieau in Sunday’s race ,which is part of the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival.... Read More

 

Attractive field for Wathba Stud Farm Cup race
in Fresno, California
corrida de cavalo
Photos by Morhaf

This year’s HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Wathba Stud Farm Cup race series in California come to a close with the fifth and final race to be held today (Saturday) at Fresno.

After the first four legs of the Wathba Stud farm Cup series attracted huge attention, Saturday’s Fresno race is expected to sign off in style with seven runners competing in the seven furlong race. Read More

 

Viribe wins Wathba Stud Farm Cup at Pomona
coletiva de imprensa ladies fegentri cup

Viribe under jockey Chris Russell, led the field of nine to win the 6 furlong Wathba Stud Farm Cup Arabian Allowance at the Fairplex track on Sepetember 16, in a time of 1:08:62. With the lucky Post Poslition 1 in the first race of the day, Viribe (Virgule Al Maury x Glebe x Samtyr) took the rail and calling the speed, edged away from the pack finishing first by a length.... Read More

Sheikh Mansoor's horses in another 1-2finish
 

It was another 1-2 finish for HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs in, the eight running of the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival's Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan - Prix Cheri Bibi, on Saturday at the Craon Hippodrome race... Read More


Craon France to Host Arabian Field
At Sh Zayed Prix Chéri Bibi Group II

Craon, 2 September: The HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan – Prix Cheri Bibi will take place on Saturday (September 3) at the Craon Hippodrome, France.

Reserved for three-year olds, the prize money on offer is Euro 20,000... Read More


UA Bey Shaka wins at Taby in Stockholm

27 August, Stockhom, Sweden - UA Bey Shaka, ridden by lady jockey A. Hollstenius, did everything right to land the Wathba Stud Farm Cup for Purebred Arabians at  the Täby Racecourse in the Sweden capital Stockholm on Saturday  on the turf.

The winner covered the 1950m distance of the trip in 2: 16: 09 seconds to lead by a length ahead of runner up Maggia in the hands and heels of Jacob Johansen as the horses crossed the finish line.  A delighted Swedish owner said after the race that she was confident UA Bey Shaka would be difficult to beat in the light of the brilliant form he has been displaying in recent starts saying that she will continue to send her horse to the festival races... Read More


Sartejano bags Euro bonus after superb win in Zayed Cup race in Poland

Dutch owner-trainer Diana Dorenberg enjoyed one of her biggest triumphs when her Purebred Arabian star Sartejano won his second Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup race in the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival and with it emerged as the champions of the Festival’s European series. The 4-year-old son of Dormane, a smart winner of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race in Berlin last month touched peak form when he scored another emphatic win beating the 2010 HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival European champion Muqatil Al Khalidiah to third place... Read More

Euro bonus battle in Sheikh Zayed Cup race in Poland

Sartejano, the winner of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup in Berlin last month has to just finish in the top three in Sunday’s Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Group 3) race in Poland to win the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s bonus prize fund of Euros 30,000.

Trained by Dorothy Dorenburg, Sartejano picked up five points for his win in Berlin and is placed two points behind Poulain Kossack, the horse that finished third in Toulouse and second in Berlin and has 7 points. But Poulain Kossack is not running here, leaving Sartejano to finish in the top three and win the Euros 30,000 bonus along with a part of the prize fund for the Group 3 race which has attracted nine runners... Read More

Poland named to stage HH Sheikha Fatma Bint Mubarak Ladies Fegentri Cup next year

The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival named Poland as one of the countries to stage the HH Sheikha Fatma Bint Mubarak Ladies Fegentri Cup, the first time the country will play host to a race for lady jockeys.

Ms Lara Sawaya, Director of HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival made the announcement at a press conference yesterday at the Sluzewiec racecourse in Warsaw, Poland ahead of Sunday’s HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Group 3) race.... Read More


Tequila du Breuil and Amazing Sawaska register wins in
Wathba Stud Farm Cup races

While the HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) took the centre stage on Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany, two Wathba Stud Farm Cup races were also held in The Netherlands and California.

In the Wathba Stud Farm Cup V, staged in Duindigt, Tequila du Breuil, ridden by Peter Janssen romped home. Shakia Dormala, with Dick Gossens in the saddle secured the second place and Sjacour, ridden by Wanda Watlow settled for third place.... Read More


Sheikh Mansoor’s horses in 1-2 finish in Sheikh Zayed Cup in Frankfurt

Frankfurt, Germany: It was a 1-2 finish for HH Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, in the Sheikh Mansoor Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race held at the Frankfurt race course on Sunday, 14 of August.

Three year-old Naseem, ridden by Alexandre Gavilan and trained by D Guillemin, surged ahead to win by a length from Thakif, ridden by Charles Nora and trained by J.P. Totain . Magua finished half-a-length behind third. The winning time was 1:47.14....Read More

French Beat wins Wathba Stud Farm Cup in Santa Rosa, California

French Beat, trained by Sandy Torok and ridden by Chris Russell got the better of Burning Speed by a nose to win the HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Wathba Stud Farm Cup race held in Santa Rosa, California on Saturday, July 30.... Read More

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup makes debut on July 24
as Hoppegarten welcomes back historic Grosser Preis von Berlin

Strong field as Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup makes Berlin debut

The Berlin debut of  HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival’s Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race on Sunday at the Hoppegarten race course has attracted a strong field of runners including Poulain Kossack, a winner of the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race in Duindigt last month.... Read More

Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup makes debut on July 24
as Hoppegarten welcomes back historic Grosser Preis von Berlin

The HH Sheikh Mansoor bin Zayed Al Nahyan Global Arabian Flat Racing Festival has chosen one of the most historic of race days in the German capital to stage its first-ever Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Cup (Listed) race on July 24 at the Hoppegarten race course.... Read More

 

 

 

 

 
 
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